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The $100,000NT Fatal1ty Shootout

written by John Chow on June 12th, 2007

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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

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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

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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

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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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  1. 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.

  2. ralphieb

    Sign me up! :twisted:

  3. Subzero

    Nice one Fatal1ty :evil:

  4. Nice pose John :razz:
    Sign me up for the compo as well :P

  5. Well….er..sign me up, too. :razz:

  6. I would like to win that Cap John. Sign me up.

  7. man! i thought taiwan would at least represent! haha. at least we have dueling booth babes. jea…

  8. well,i got a chance to win the free gift now…
    thank you John. :wink:

  9. Why the hell not, sign me up. I’m bound to win something eventually!

  10. Sign me up as well. I am sure the cap will suit my boss a lot! :wink:

  11. David Turnbull

    I’d love to win the cap :D

    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?

  12. Sign me up please, it will be the perfect match for my John Chow pen :twisted:

  13. Did Jason from TWL tell you his score from CES going up against Fatal1ty? I think it was something like 20 to -40.

  14. 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. (^_^)

  15. WOW! I wonder what a joke I’ll be in front of him.

  16. I think I would of lost by even more!

    Sign me up for draw!

  17. I’m not signing up because I want the cap, but because I want to say I won a competition on JohnChow.com :lol:

    Sign me up, John. :)

  18. 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

  19. This guy is a ledge sounds like you had fun in Taiwan John!

  20. Sweet, sign me up for the drawing :)

    Jason

  21. Sign me up please!

    Just wonder how the -3 score came from :shock:

  22. 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?

  23. 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 :)

  24. Fatal1ty owns at so many games..

    >> Contest Entrance

  25. this guy needs to practice more..

    sign me up too, please.

  26. I’ve seen this guy all over tech-tv. He plays a lot.

  27. dms

    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?

  28. I’d love a cap, nice thing to have for sure John!

  29. Ok ok John. Sign me up also. Expect me to start commenting again now.. :evil:

  30. playing games for a living, wow, that’s something iunique

  31. WOW! Talk about a nasty beatdown lol.

  32. Let’s try… sign me up :D

  33. That guy got pwn3d. Any videos of the match online?? ;)

  34. Nice post! I wish all I had to do for a new video card was pose with the box. Any chance you might hold a contest for that nifty item?

    Sign me up for the cap, please.

  35. and the winner is? sign me up!

  36. You are a marketing Genuis. Sorry this comment is irrelevant to this post. But I just finished reading your 59 page pdf file on how to make money. It really motivated me. I will be back show my progess with a blog I will start this week. You’re a darth Vader. So evil you can’t hate.

    Thanks again John.
    Prija

  37. mike

    sign me up!

  38. Yep, count me in as well.

  39. *signs up

    Anyone know where to find some videocasts of this guy playing? I imagine it must be pretty spectacular to watch.

  40. wow where is the owned picture when you need one? jeez :oops:

  41. I saw him on a MTV special and he was destroying everybody.

  42. Throwing my name into the ring for the hat.

  43. betshopboy

    count me in!

  44. I’ll take an entry to that.

    Thanks.

  45. Yep, me too! Ironic… I dont’ have time to play computer games! Oh, well!

  46. Looks like I could sell that on eBay.

  47. Looks like a fun party. Count me in for the contest too!

  48. Misprint! Looks like Fatal1ty won 74 to -1 (or so it says on the hat) - still, pretty impressive. ;)

  49. many, many years ago I played against Fatal1ty in some Q2 teamplay… possibly even killed him :lol:

    anyway, sign me up!

  50. Hey, I like caps and I don’t have even one =/ I want this! Sign me up!

  51. Heck, I’ll bite.

    74 to -3… holy cow. Did he cry?

  52. I could use another cap, John; sign me up!

  53. This guy makes like millions its crazy!

  54. I think its interesting how much he “trains” or plays to be as good as he is. It all takes time.

  55. Oh yes, count me in!!

  56. I´m in ur country
    Fragging your ass out :mrgreen:

    BTW don´t count me in ;)

  57. 74 to negative three? He must have gotten so ashamed he started to kill himself instead…

  58. Tremendo tipo!
    Para todos los demás visiten Punto Fape, muchas ideas para promocionar blogs hispanos.

  59. I love these blog contests!! Please accept my ballot.

  60. I’ll take a stab :evil: at winning the hat

  61. Hey John,

    I’m replying to sign up for the cap.

    Here’s why
    -need a hat to cover up my mess, especially since -I have so little time now that I’m a dad!
    would love that extra publicity from the JohnChow dot COM readership
    -I’ve written up a review about you
    -I’ve been reading this blog since before it was ‘making money online’ and now reading it on a DAILY basis on the site itself and not through some crummy feedreader
    -pretty please with a cherry on top?


    Jerry
    Road To Mega Millions

  62. It should have been a complete disaster for the Taiwanese Gamer if it wasn’t for the prizes he got from the sponsors..

    PS: Please do sign me up for the cap. :)

  63. This is my entry, i am going to die if i can’t win this hat :mrgreen:

  64. Ael

    Hey could you sign me up?

    You look good with the 2900XT BTW ;-)

  65. Yes, sign me up to win that hat. I’m a big sports guy with zero autographs but I’m also a gamer and it’d be great to have an autograph of Fatal1ty.

  66. miguel

    Nice cap, sign me up! :neutral:

  67. Seeing as I am very tall, I am closer to the sun and I need that hat to shade my face so please send it along to me before I burn up. Thanks.

  68. Hmm, is it too late to signup? If not, sign me up! :D

  69. Man, it’s gotta suck losing 74 to -3 in 10 minutes…..being the best player in your country…

  70. 74 to -3… Whoa.
    Nah, don’t want the cap.

  71. LOL, I remember when my dad first told me my uncle made $40,000,000 a year in Taiwan. I was like DAMN. But then he said it was in Taiwan dollars.

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