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Johnathan Wendel also known by the pseudonym

Pseudonym

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Fatal1ty , is a professional electronic sports

Electronic sports

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player, philanthropist

Philanthropist

A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes...

, and entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

. Jonathan is considered the world's first prominent and accomplished professional gamer. He is also considered one of the best professional gamers in the world.

Career Start

His career started in 1999 when he spent $500 to go to a Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Texas

Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

Quake series

Quake (series)

The Quake series is a line of first-person shooter video games produced by id Software.-Overview:The Quake series is somewhat unusual in that its focus changes frequently; the story of Quake II has nothing to do with Quake, and Quake III Arena has little to do with either of its predecessors...

tournament and won $4,000 from making 3rd place. His father was impressed and since then supported his new career.

Biography

Wendel has won approximately US$

United States dollar

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500,000 in cash and prizes from professional competitions, mainly in the Cyberathlete Professional League

Cyberathlete Professional League

The Cyberathlete Professional League , founded on June 27, 1997 by gaming entrepreneur Angel Munoz, is a professional sports tournament organization specializing in computer and console video game competitions....

(CPL). In addition to receiving numerous product partnerships with his company Fatal1ty Brand (Fatal1ty, Inc.), he has been featured in mainstream newsprint publications such as Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...

, The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

, Forbes

Forbes

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, and the BBC World Service

BBC World Service

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. He has also been featured on 60 Minutes
60 Minutes
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. He has a training regimen where he practices at least eight hours each day, sometimes more.

Wendel has been a successful competitor in many first-person shooter

First-person shooter

First-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other...

games. He debuted as a professional gamer in October 1999 by placing 3rd in the Quake III Arena
Quake III Arena
Quake III Arena , is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game released on December 2, 1999. The game was developed by id Software and featured music composed by Sonic Mayhem and Front Line Assembly...

tournament at the CPL's FRAG 3 event. He has competed in tournaments with Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike is a tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation which originated from a Half-Life modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess "Cliffe" Cliffe...

, Call of Duty
Call of Duty
Call of Duty is a first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision in 2003. It is the first game in a series with the same name. The game simulates the infantry and combined arms warfare of World War II. The game is based on the Quake III: Team Arena engine...

and Quake III Arena
Quake III Arena
Quake III Arena , is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game released on December 2, 1999. The game was developed by id Software and featured music composed by Sonic Mayhem and Front Line Assembly...

which he won with his team clan Kapitol at the first-ever CPL Teamplay World Championships (FRAG 4). Most of his successes have been with one-versus-one deathmatch

Deathmatch (gaming)

Deathmatch or Player vs All is a widely-used gameplay mode integrated into many shooter and real-time strategy computer games...

games including Quake III Arena
Quake III Arena
Quake III Arena , is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game released on December 2, 1999. The game was developed by id Software and featured music composed by Sonic Mayhem and Front Line Assembly...

, Unreal Tournament 2003
Unreal Tournament 2003
Unreal Tournament 2003 or UT2003 is a first-person shooter video game designed mainly for multiplayer gaming. The game is part of the Unreal franchise's series of games, and is a sequel to Unreal Tournament ....

, and Painkiller
Painkiller (game)
PainKiller is a first-person shooter video game released on April 12, 2004. It was developed by Polish game studio People Can Fly and published by DreamCatcher Interactive . It attempts to replicate the "old-school FPS" gameplay of Doom and Quake...

. During his career, he has won a total of twelve world championship titles, including four player of the year awards with the Cyberathlete Professional League

Cyberathlete Professional League

and one with the World Cyber Games

World Cyber Games

The World Cyber Games is an international competitive video-gaming event operated by South Korean company World Cyber Games Inc., and sponsored by Samsung and Microsoft...

.

On March 13, 2003, MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

featured Wendel on the True Life
True Life
True Life is a documentary series running on MTV since 1998. Each episode follows a particular topic, such as heroin addiction as in the first episode, "Fatal Dose." The show is created by following a series of subjects by a camera crew through a certain part of their lives.-Topics covered:True...

series. It was filmed in Kansas City, Kansas

Kansas City, Kansas

Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified...

; San Antonio, Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

; and Dallas, Texas

Texas

. The episode documented his life and how he prepared for the Cyberathlete Professional League

Cyberathlete Professional League

's Winter

Winter

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2002 Unreal Tournament 2003

Unreal Tournament 2003

Unreal Tournament 2003 or UT2003 is a first-person shooter video game designed mainly for multiplayer gaming. The game is part of the Unreal franchise's series of games, and is a sequel to Unreal Tournament ....

. Among those featured alongside Wendel in the professional gaming industry were his friends Phil "shogun" Kennedy, and Brian "astro" Lewis, who were also very well known in the professional gaming circuit.

Wendel started a business, Fatal1ty, Inc., selling his brand of gaming mouse pads, "FATpads". He later expanded this into other gaming equipment through a business partnership with Universal abit, Creative Labs and XFX

XFX

XFX is the manufacturing division of Hong Kong-based Pine Technology Holdings Limited . The XFX division, begun in 2002, has its major office in Ontario, California and specializes in the manufacturing of video cards based on Nvidia and AMD graphics processing units and motherboards...

to create motherboard

Motherboard

In personal computers, a motherboard is the central printed circuit board in many modern computers and holds many of the crucial components of the system, providing connectors for other peripherals. The motherboard is sometimes alternatively known as the mainboard, system board, or, on Apple...

s, cooler

Cooler

A cooler, cool box, portable ice chest, chilly bin , or esky most commonly is an insulated box used to keep food or drink cool. Ice cubes are most commonly placed in it to help the things inside stay cool...

s, sound cards, video cards, computer mice

Mouse (computing)

In computing, a mouse is a pointing device that functions by detecting two-dimensional motion relative to its supporting surface. Physically, a mouse consists of an object held under one of the user's hands, with one or more buttons...

, computer case

Computer case

A computer case is the enclosure that contains most of the components of a computer...

s, headphones

Headphones

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, power supplies

Power supply

A power supply is a device that supplies electrical energy to one or more electric loads. The term is most commonly applied to devices that convert one form of electrical energy to another, though it may also refer to devices that convert another form of energy to electrical energy...

, and even clothes bearing his moniker.

Wendel was the spokesman

Spokesman

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of the now defunct Championship Gaming Series

Championship Gaming Series

The Championship Gaming Series was an international electronic sports league based in the United States of America, though it had expanded to every continent except Antarctica for Season Two before being abruptly discontinued....

and has temporarily put aside actively competing.

Wendel was awarded the first Lifetime Achievement Award in the four-year history of the eSports Award

ESports Award

The eSports Award is an annual award ceremony held since 2004 by Turtle Entertainment in which individuals, teams and organisations are recognized in several categories for their contribution or achievements to or in the field of competitive gaming....

Notable accomplishments

All winnings listed are in USD
United States dollar
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.

Aliens versus Predator 2

1st CPL World Championship ($40,000, Ford Focus)

Painkiller

4th Electronic Sports World Cup
Electronic Sports World Cup
The Electronic Sports World Cup is an international professional gaming championship.Every year winners of national qualifier event around the world earn the right to represent their country in the ESWC Finals...

2004 ($1,000)
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)
2nd CPL UK September 4, 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 ($4,000)
1st XSR Invitational 2000 ($15,000)
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 ($10,500)
3rd CPL Holland
2nd QuakeCon
QuakeCon
QuakeCon is a bring-your-own-computer computer gaming event with a competitive tournament held every year in Dallas, Texas, USA. The event, which is named after id Software's game Quake, sees thousands of gamers from all over the world attend every year to celebrate the company's gaming dynasty...

2001 ($10,000)
2nd CPL Brazil

Quake 4

4th WSVG Kentucky June 18, 2006
4th WSVG Intel Summer Challenge July 9, 2006 ($6,500)
9–12th QuakeCon
QuakeCon
QuakeCon is a bring-your-own-computer computer gaming event with a competitive tournament held every year in Dallas, Texas, USA. The event, which is named after id Software's game Quake, sees thousands of gamers from all over the world attend every year to celebrate the company's gaming dynasty...

August 5, 2006
5th WSVG London October 8, 2006
3rd Digital Life October 15, 2006 ($2,500)
5th World Cyber Games
World Cyber Games
The World Cyber Games is an international competitive video-gaming event operated by South Korean company World Cyber Games Inc., and sponsored by Samsung and Microsoft...

October 19, 2006
2nd WSVG Finals New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, December 10, 2006 ($10,000)
1st Championship Gaming Invitational Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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, December 17, 2006

Unreal Tournament 2003

1st CPL Winter 2002 ($10.000)
3rd Electronic Sports World Cup
Electronic Sports World Cup
The Electronic Sports World Cup is an international professional gaming championship.Every year winners of national qualifier event around the world earn the right to represent their country in the ESWC Finals...

2003 ($3.000)

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