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Wendel has won approximately US$500,000 in cash and prizes from professional competitions, mainly in the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL). In addition to receiving numerous product endorsements, he has been featured in mainstream newsprint publications, including ``Time``, ``The New York Times``, Forbes, and the BBC World Service. He has also been featured on ``60 Minutes``. He is known as being one of the first western professional gamers with a serious work ethic, Fatal1ty On Pro Video Gaming, Forbes.com, December 14, 2006 and says he practices at least two to six hours each day, sometimes more.Wendel has been a successful competitor in several first-person shooter games. He debuted as a professional gamer in October 1999 by placing 3rd in the ``Quake III Arena`` tournament at the CPL`s FRAG 3 event. Although he has competed in tournaments with ``Counter-Strike`` and ``Call of Duty`` teams Fatal1ty stats, most of his successes have been with one-versus-one deathmatch games including ``Quake III Arena``, ``Unreal Tournament 2003``, and ``Painkiller``. During his career, he has won a total of five world championship titles; four with the Cyberathlete Professional League. The CPL Announces Past 1v1 Champions, Cyberathlete Professional League, September 15, 2006, and one with the World Cyber Games World Cyber Games Challenge Pro Player Index, The Challenge Network, October 6-12, 2000
On March 13, 2003 MTV featured Wendel on the True Life series. It was filmed in Kansas City Kansas, San Antonio Texas and Dallas Texas. The episode documented his life and how he prepared for the Cyberathlete Professional League`s Winter 2002 Unreal Tournament 2003. Among those featured along side Wendel in the professional gaming industry were his friends Phil "shogun", and Brian "astro", who were also very well known in the professional gaming circuit."I`m a Gamer", ``True Life``, MTV productions, original broadcast date 3/13/2003.
Wendel started a business selling his "FATpad" brand of gaming mouse mats. He later expanded this into other gaming equipment through a business partnership with Universal abit, Zalman, Creative Labs and XFX to create motherboards, coolers, sound cards, video cards, mouses, computer cases, headphones, and even clothes bearing his moniker.
Wendel is the spokesman of the Championship Gaming Series and has temporarily put aside actively competing. Championship Gaming Series: Johnathan `Fatal1ty` Wendel, Gaming Target, June 18, 2007
Wendel was awarded the first Lifetime Achievement Award in the four-year history of the eSports Award. According to the Esports Award Organization, he “claims the honor for showing exceptional sportsmanship, taking part in shaping eSports into what it is today and for being the prime representative of this young sport”.
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``Aliens versus Predator 2``
- 1st CPL World Championship ($40,000, Ford Focus)
``Doom 3``
- 1st QuakeCon 2004 ($25,000)
``Painkiller``
- 2nd CPL Summer Championships 2004 ($5,750)
- 4th CPL Turkey March 26, 2005 ($5,000)
- 6th CPL Spain May 1, 2005 ($2,500)
- 2nd CPL Brazil May 28, 2005 ($10,000)
- 2nd CPL Sweden June 18, 2005 ($10,000)
- 1st CPL Summer Championships 2005 ($15,000) Fatal1ty Wins CPL Summer 2005
- 2nd CPL UK September 04, 2005 ($10,000)
- 1st CPL Singapore October 16, 2005 ($15,000)
- 2nd CPL Italy October 22, 2005 ($10,000)
- 5th CPL Chile October 30, 2005 ($3,500)
- 1st CPL NYC World Tour Finals 2005 ($150,000)
`` Quake III Arena ``
- 3rd Frag 3 1999
- 1st XSR Invitational 2000
- 1st RazerCPL Tournament April, 2000 ($40,000)
- 1st BattleTop Universal Challenge July 22, 2000 ($15,000)
- 1st World Cyber Games Challenge October, 2000 ($25,000)
- 1st CPL Australia ($10,000)
- 3rd CPL Holland
- 2nd QuakeCon 2001 ($70,000)
- 2nd CPL Brazil
``Quake 4``
- 4th WSVG Kentucky June 18, 2006
- 4th WSVG Intel Summer Challenge July 9, 2006 ($6,500)
- 9–12th QuakeCon August 05, 2006
- 5th WSVG London October 8, 2006
- 3rd Digital Life October 15, 2006 ($2,500)
- 5th World Cyber Games October 19, 2006
- 2nd WSVG Finals New York, December 10, 2006 ($10,000)
World Championships
- CPL: 4 (2000, 2001, 2002, 2005)
- WCG: 1 (2000)
GGL Rankings
- Top ranking: 1st (05-2006, 06-2006, 07-2006) The ReDeYe Report: GGL World Rankings, May 2006, Global Gaming League, May 2, 2006
- Current ranking: 6th Redeye Report: November 2006, Global Gaming League, November 30, 2006
Notlar
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- Fatal1ty`s official website
- Interview with GotFrag.com
- Interview with TomsHardware.com
- Interview with Dr. Blogstein`s Radio Happy Hour
- Interview with the BBC
- Interview with 60 Minutes
- Interview with Forbes Video
- Interview with Spike TV
- Interview with AOL Games
- CES 2007 Interview with LIVEdigitally
- Interview with Nice To Kill You e-Sports Club (in Spanish)
- Featured article at CNN.com (April 11, 2007) under "People You Should Know"
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