Fatal1ty

About Fatal1ty

Johnathan Wendel (born February 26, 1981 in Independence, Missouri), also known by the pseudonym Fatal1ty, is a professional electronic sports player.

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 partnerships with his company Fatal1ty Brand (Fatal1ty, Inc.), he has been featured in mainstream newsprint publications such as 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, and says he practices at least two to six hours each day, sometimes more. He claims his favorite movie ever is Jumanji.

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. He has competed in tournaments with Counter-Strike, Call of Duty and Quake 3 Team Deathmatch 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 games including Quake III Arena, Unreal Tournament 2003, and Painkiller. During his career, he has won a total of five world championship titles, including four with the Cyberathlete Professional League and one with the World Cyber Games