60 Minutes Interviews “Fatal1ty”

Chris Simon 22 Jan, 2006 at 1:34am ET Article published in Tech

Techspot has reported that Jonathan Wendel, the three-time world champion in the Cyberathlete Professional League, will be featured this Sunday on the popular CBS news program 60 Minutes. The announcement came from Auravision on January 20th, 2006.

View: CBS to feature Jonathan Wendel on 60 minutes

[i]”Jonathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel was excited to be featured on the legendary CBS News magazine. “Of course, I’m tremendously flattered that 60 Minutes would find my life interesting enough to create this program,” stated Wendel. “My hope is that this exposure will raise the interest in competitive video gaming.”[/i]

It should be interesting to hear from someone who made over $100,000 last year doing PC gaming.

Source: Techspot

Comments

22 Jan 2006 ~ 2:23am Shorty Got my ass completed kicked by him a couple of years ago @ a show. He is an excellent pro gamer. Good luck to him I say, making the kind of money he does!
22 Jan 2006 ~ 4:21am GnomeWizardd I played once against him, Got 1 kill - he owned me hardcore!
22 Jan 2006 ~ 11:59am Garg That's badass you two got to play against him. I wonder how many public servers he plays on these days? And how many people copy his name?
22 Jan 2006 ~ 12:38pm Shorty I was sitting right next to him

At ECTS 2003, I played Doom III multi-player against him
22 Jan 2006 ~ 5:18pm profdlp I homered off Sandy Koufax once.

/not really...
22 Jan 2006 ~ 11:58pm TheSmJ I've got a really good recording of his section of the show (about 15 minutes). If anyone is interested I could make it available here.
23 Jan 2006 ~ 9:38am csimon

TheSmJ wrote:

I've got a really good recording of his section of the show (about 15 minutes). If anyone is interested I could make it available here.

Aha ...just the man I'm looking for.
I really feel quite stupid being the one who posted this news and then forgot to watch the show. I was far too busy doing some overclocking, ram tweaking and benchmarking. Silly me. Wifey reminded me when she got home from work but by then it had just ended.

At any rate ...I would appreciate it TheSmJ!
23 Jan 2006 ~ 12:01pm TheSmJ Sure thing. When I get home tonight I'll compress it to XVid and post the link here.
23 Jan 2006 ~ 4:40pm Gobbles I think his name is a rip.. i used to play against a Fatal1ty in Q3A circa 2000, and he was not that great, he was good but not super uber, id rail his ass regularly. But I doubt seriously it was the same person.
25 Jan 2006 ~ 4:50am madmat Most likely not the same dude, I think he's been doing the PC gaming thing for less than 5 years now...
25 Jan 2006 ~ 4:54pm TheSmJ File is up. Sorry it took me so long.

FTP to: thesmj.no-ip.org
Port 33
U/P smedia/mantouch

The file is 130 megs, in XVID format.
8 Mar 2006 ~ 8:02pm GamerPro Fatality is alright, but have you guys seen Zero4 play before? He could take Fatality anyday