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What is Fatal1ty??

last edited by Agent 99 at 20:55:49 12/Mar/06

he's a newb, lolol

What is Fatal1ty??

a pro-gamer in quake3 & ut2k3 etc.

I saw the adds for it. Didn't have time to watch in. Anybody cap it?

Dont worry, if you were in to computers and games three years ago you wont miss much.

there was a thread on it yesterday. theres a download for the 60min thing on the cpl forums.

more talking about how cyber gaming is the Next Big Thing

just like they said last year

and the year before



sifnt watch that doco on Ants, that was the s***

Dont worry, if you were in to computers and games three years ago you wont miss much.

ahah that's pretty much right, thought I'd feel comfortable stretching it to 5 years. I gave up when someone said the word "stereotypical" because it was obvious where it was going from there.

wonder how much they paid him for the interview.

last edited by ravn0s at 21:49:22 12/Mar/06

Takes me back to 5 years ago or so. Who was the guy who won the Ferrari in a comp once? I cant remember his name but I'm pretty sure it was before fatality was anyone known.

I love how he was making motherboards with abit 2 - 3 years ago and he is "just launching named pc gear" now.

linkage pinched from other thread --> ftp://ftp.thecpl.com/cpl_60_minutes.zip (copy and paste URL) ~96 meg

Who was the guy who won the Ferrari in a comp once? I cant remember his name but I'm pretty sure it was before fatality was anyone known.

Thresh.

last edited by masta_blasta at 21:59:07 12/Mar/06

Well done Masta B. I found an old QGL thread about him here:
http://qgl.ausforums.com/?agn=thread&id=58386

Its from 2001 but he was playing well before that. So much for Fatality being a 1st.

fatality is the 1st to win tournaments for 5 different games.

Yes, that's true. 60 minutes seemed to be making out that pro gaming is new. We all know its not.

Thresh.

There was a MTV special about fatal1ty which he came off pretty much clueless, wrong, gravitating his whole life around quake(3). bit close to the bone really :| At 20 it's ok but I suppose he's making 100K us a year out of it so that's a sweet deal.

Whether he is actually da best well I think Thresh would cane him considering Thresh was pretty much god in DooM circles even before quake and his notorious ferrari win at qcon. Whoever he played (integral?) got pretty much slaughtered, but I would have loved to have seen a noskill (rip) vs thresh match. (his doom recordings are still shiver-worthy)

fatality is the 1st to win tournaments for 5 different games.

Wow, I'm glad he contributed so much of his precious time for the bettering of humanity.

i just wanna know how the hell he doesnt get bored. he trians 8 hrs a day. i would be sick of the game after the first week.

Thats because your not pro gamer material. I do 2000 cs bots a day, finger exsercises and alot of eye stimulation. You have to be in it to win it.

The term 'sport' is just plain wrong ... Its not a sport! Its just some nerds having fun. Just like ermmm qgl?

way to go making a second thread trog

:rollseyes:

If anyone wants to see more of Starcraft on TV in Korea go here.

Thresh was s*** at quake - he was just ahead of his time.

He did cain that UK Quake2 champ in that special challenge match tho. That was an absolute drubbing.

He did the smart thing and got out of playing games and using his "celebrity" at the time to start website companies. He owns www.firingsquad.com and/or www.gamers.com among other things i think?

Either way, I'm sure he's making a s***load more than fatal1ty is.

last edited by Stez at 23:32:13 12/Mar/06

Oh yeah I should add that Thresh stopped playing/competing right when the Euro players started getting real good. People were begging him, offering free trips, money etc etc to go to Europe to play, but he knew he'd get f***ing worked so he never did.

He retired with practically a no-loss competition record which is how he kept his rep intact...tho lost the respect of everyone in the Quake scene at the time.

Thats because your not pro gamer material. I do 2000 cs bots a day, finger exsercises and alot of eye stimulation. You have to be in it to win it.

hahha, I wonder if anyone really does this?

You can also stream it off his site. His most winnings have basically come over the last year though, $150,000 from the tour stop grand final, not to mention the handful of tournaments prior to it.
Still a pretty good feat, 300K from winnings alone.

I can't wait to see a future aussie version of that story.


"Dole bludgers training for next Virtual Olympics."

What kind of douchebag has a stuffed animal they bring to every event anyway?

What a noob ... to be pro now you have to be playing an mmo!

Yeh that's where all the big money is

What kind of douchebag has a stuffed animal they bring to every event anyway?

The same sort of people who take the same, and more wierd 'trinkets' to WPT round, where they win millions of dollarz.

Yeah but fat is just trying to be like tiger woods which is gay. Do something original.

a guy at my work took 5 weeks annual leave so he could make it to the top pvp rank in wow. he said he played something like 14 hours a day and when the tuesday night maintenance came around every week it became like a godsend.

surely you jest, doob, that is insane.

surely you jest, doob, that is insane.

What, that he did it? or that it takes that long to get to #1?

WoW PvP rank was the most retarded system ever.
It was based on how long you spent in BG, not how good you were.

Maybe EA sports will bring out ProGaming 07

Well it isnt like Blizzard ever called WoW a player skilled based game.


HAHA
ProGaymer 07, Where YOU play the progamer!

last edited by Tollaz0r! at 16:03:35 13/Mar/06

a guy at my work took 5 weeks annual leave so he could make it to the top pvp rank in wow. he said he played something like 14 hours a day and when the tuesday night maintenance came around every week it became like a godsend.

That is really quite concerning.

l o s e r

nope im dead serious, and yes the guy is a vampire. sun light would kill him.

i hope he realised how s*** wow is and quit

last edited by ravn0s at 17:06:34 13/Mar/06

it would be cool to see a couple of the major sponsors endorse tournaments in australia a bit more, cos there isn't much big cash going round. I know that me and a few other guys in my battlefield clan, are the he top paid online players in australia winning only about $2.5k each from bfv and bf2. it aint a lot when u think about it tho.

ya gotta go overseas and in the big international things to make a lot.

Looks like south korea is the place to be eh. They play strategy games there right? like star craft etc?

I wonder if they have south korea vs north korea battles haha

"Looks like south korea is the place to be eh. They play strategy games there right? like star craft etc?

I wonder if they have south korea vs north korea battles haha"

They play starcraft, and mmorpgs (mostly their own, though theres always plenty of wow players just about everywhere), I think south korea is probably online game king of the world, with china coming in second (not sure which country has more farmers).
Other game types seem miniscule in comparison to these two, but obviously theres plenty of cs players etc there too.
Thats just what from what I've observed, if theres some hard stat data I'd like to read through it too. No idea what console gaming is like in these places, online or otherwise...

ctd just won the thread, bravo chap bravo :)

I'll become a progamer when they release WoW:San Andreas.

I'll become a progamer when they release Def Jam: Fight for Rockhampton.