Top Cyber Athlete Is No Couch Potato

{OF}MillerTime · 01-21-2006, 06:27 AM

60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft profiles Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel this Sunday, Jan. 22, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n1220146.shtml

Cheese · 01-21-2006, 09:25 AM

but he does claim to spend 17 hours a day practicing for the two weeks leading up to a tournamnet. thats a lot of f'in time to be sittin there. plus, i dunno if he still does, but he used to live in the basement of his parent's house. i dont know if it'd all be worth it.

dudio · 01-21-2006, 10:40 AM

That would be interesting to watch.
Thanks for the heads-up MT

(I'd oWn him with my Quake/Gravis Pad skills)

LoPo · 01-21-2006, 02:47 PM

I wonder how many chicks he gets?

{OF}Flying_Dutchman · 01-21-2006, 02:58 PM

Interesting question Lopo.

Normally, guys that live in their parent's basement and play up to 17 hrs a day of video games don't do that hot.

But throw in $450k of winnings.........(I mean, even Bill Gates got married right?)

ChemicalWarrior · 01-21-2006, 04:06 PM

No way to he live in his parents basement. This guy makes over a million a year in just his brand. He's on everything now, from sound cards, mice, motherboards, graphics cards, heatsinks etc.

He's also not the top player anymore, not even close last I heard. A lot of people beat him on a regular basis, hasnt been the best since he moved from UT2k3.

LoPo · 01-21-2006, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by ChemicalWarrior

not even close last I heard.

"Last I heard" he had a sex change, got the new Intel 5.5Ghz Quad core with a FSB of 10,240mhz or 10Ghz. He uses completely solid state drives and eats wheaties every day.

ChemicalWarrior · 01-21-2006, 05:11 PM

Hahaha, what a funny guy you are.

{OF}verrecke · 01-21-2006, 06:31 PM

We saw him at Quakecon '04 and he was there with his sponsors (ASUS, ABIT? I can't recall). It was when Doom3 had just come out just 2 weeks before, and there was a "Beat Fatal1ty and Win" type of contest. You played him at Doom3 deathmatch, and for each point scored you won a computer part (motherboard, video card, etc), and if you won, you got a whole new system. Apparently, Fatal1ty does this with his sponsors at a lot tradeshows and I'm sure makes a few dollars at the same time.

Inc felt he could have gotten a few points on him, but unfortunately, it was a raffle type system and he never got picked. The only person who did get points (and beat him!) was a guy named Daler who beat him at a Quake3 Tournament a few years before (another Quakecon we attended).