The $100,000NT Fatal1ty Shootout
written by John Chow
Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel (pictured above) is the world’s number one computer gamer. He has won 12 Major Championships in five different games, a feat never before accomplished. Fatal1ty was in Computex Taipei to take part in the Fatal1ty Quake 4 shootout. The winner of the shootout would win some great prizes and a chance to take on Fatal1ty in a one-on-one match for $100,000NT ($3,125US).
We missed the preliminary matches because they began before Computex started. However, the final one-on-one match was what everyone wanted to see anyway. The competition was held at a popular Internet cafe and was sponsored by Abit, PowerColor, Cooler Master and Corsair.
Now This Is A Big Box
Raymond at PowerColor said he’ll send me a 2900XT if I pose with the PowerColor box. The actual box that the ATI video card ships in isn’t this big.
You Are Not A Challenge
Here he is. The best Quake 4 player in Taiwan, the winner of the Fatal1ty shootout and the man who won the right to go head-to-head against Fatal1ty for $100,000NT. Being the amazing reporter that I am, I was more interested in the Le Power girls and beer than finding out his name. Then again, I’m sure he doesn’t want his name known since he proved to be zero challenge for Fatal1ty. The final score from the ten minute match was 74 to -3. Yes, 74 to minus three.
I knew he was going to lose. I just didn’t expect him to lose by that much. He didn’t win the $100,000NT but he did get a bunch of prizes from the sponsors for winning the shootout.
Win A Signed Fatal1ty Cooler Master Cap
After the shootout, I got Fatal1ty to sign a Cooler Master cap for me. If you want to win it, just reply to this post. I’ll draw a winner Wednesday night.
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Yea sign me up too! I could use a new hat
Sign me up also ;P
Me Too!
btw John, now you’ve become a model for ATI?
ready to be a blog celeb
WOW! That Fatality dude pwns seriously.
Just wanna see how much will he pwn me, with my lousy FPS skills.
P.S.
I don’t sign up for the cap drawing. I won’t have anything to do with it anyway.
I’ve seen that guy go at it on TV…its ridiculous.
MIKE, wo says you cant auction the cap if you dont want it? Its good to have money no?
Sign me up!
Nice one Fatal1ty
FATAL1TY is teh 1337
Nice pose John
Sign me up for the compo as well
Well….er..sign me up, too.
I would like to win that Cap John. Sign me up.
man! i thought taiwan would at least represent! haha. at least we have dueling booth babes. jea…
well,i got a chance to win the free gift now…
thank you John.
Why the hell not, sign me up. I’m bound to win something eventually!
Count me in!
And no, I don’t care that I won the last shirt contest, I’m entering this one anyway.
You have to have a hat to go with a t-shirt, that’s just common sense. I don’t think this will bother anyone
Sign me up as well. I am sure the cap will suit my boss a lot!
I’d love to win the cap
But anyway, how the hell do you get a score of -3?
If they were playing Counter Strike wouldn’t that mean that guy would’ve had to accidentally killed himself 3 times?
Yes, he killed himself. They were playing DM17, an open space map that if you walk off the edge, you die.
I think even Fatal1ty is in your
gamg John, HAHAHA
P.S. SIGN ME TOO!
I’ve heard of “double dead” before, but three times?? LOL Fatal1ty must’ve been really, really good.
Sign me up please, it will be the perfect match for my John Chow pen
Did Jason from TWL tell you his score from CES going up against Fatal1ty? I think it was something like 20 to -40.
I Played Fatal1ty at E3 and held my own at 8 - 0. I was one of only 5 players to keep him in single digit kills.
You must be a pretty good gamer then john to get that score! btw sign me up for the cap
WOW! If you would be from Taiwan, you could get a chance to earn 100,000!!
I need this cap
Hi John,
You know, caps makes my head ache at times. But if it’s from you, I would gladly wear it to work during rainy and sunny days, really.
I’ll surely blog about it. (^_^)
WOW! I wonder what a joke I’ll be in front of him.
I forgot, sign me up!
I think I would of lost by even more!
Sign me up for draw!
I’m not signing up because I want the cap, but because I want to say I won a competition on JohnChow.com
Sign me up, John.
Count me in the contest. I love stuff.
So if you didn’t get the guys name, where are the photos of the Le Power girls?
Michael
This guy is a ledge sounds like you had fun in Taiwan John!
Sweet, sign me up for the drawing
Jason
Sign me up please!
Just wonder how the -3 score came from
Killed himself!!
Wow that guy probably is glad that you didn’t catch his name. Does anyone know how much money someone like Fatal1ty makes through sponsorships and prizes and whatnot?
That chap makes A SIX FIGURE INCOME!
Source,
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/309079/pro_gamer_collects_sixfigure_salary/index.html
Wow john, sound like you had the time of your life there, i wish i could go there myself.. maybe next year…
Count me in
maybe 4 more years for me haha.
Sign me up!
John, that is cool
count me in… JC
Fatal1ty owns at so many games..
>> Contest Entrance
Err.. not contest.. drawing.
I dint understand:?:
this guy needs to practice more..
sign me up too, please.
I’ve seen this guy all over tech-tv. He plays a lot.
someone makes a living just being good at video games? if my parents didn’t discourage me from playing ColecoVision and Atari 2600 and Saga i could be running around the world playing video games for cash?
Making a Six figure Income!!
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/309079/pro_gamer_collects_sixfigure_salary/index.html
I’d love a cap, nice thing to have for sure John!
Ok ok John. Sign me up also. Expect me to start commenting again now..