Fatal1ty or Johnathan Wendel in real life is a natural born athlete and also competed in real life sports during his earlier days before he put his talent into cyber gaming. Fatal1ty considered playing real life sports that contributed an important factor that made him more accurate and responsive in making decisions during game play.
Fatal1ty inherited some characteristics of being agile, responsive, mentally and physically coordinated from playing live sport like tennis by which he was the team captain of his team during his high school years. Fatal1ty also spent two years in college before he decided to become a full time gamer and also mentioned that if he don’t succeed in his chosen career he’ll definitely back to campus again to pursue his full time study.
Fatal1ty’s ambition and empathy in gaming paid off and actually work for him. Who would ever think that gaming is only a form of creational hobby and never to become bread and butter for all gaming enthusiasts? Well, Fatal1ty breaks the barrier and contributed to justify gaming into much broader name called eSports or Cyber Sports.
Fatal1ty have had succeeded monetizing his talent or should I say “talent generated through extensive training and dedication”; at the age of 25 Fatal1ty had won 41 professional gaming tournaments in the US and in other major countries that made him rich over $300,000 in cash prizes. No one has come close to Fatal1ty’s remarkable success for winning 12 world titles in 5 different game areas from Quake III-Six World Titles 2000 / 2001, Unreal Tournament 2003-Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) Winter World Champion 2002, Doom III - Quake Con2004 World Champion 2004, Aliens Vs Predator 2 – CPL Winter World Champion 2001, Painkiller – CPL USA, Singapore and World Tour Champion 2005.
His overall success made his name Fatal1ty a decal, a signature, and a symbol for most high-end hardware gaming components and accessories made by world class manufacturer of computer products; that lead him for such business opportunity and also came up with his own brand being sold worldwide.
In December 2006, Fatal1ty joined with CGS (Championship Gaming Series as its official spokesperson and event host for national game event that gave him much bigger exposure worldwide through Direct TV, SkyTV, and Star; and as a spokesperson for CGS many have had inspired and participated becoming a professional cyber athlete like Fatal1ty.
In August 2007, the Esports Awards Organization awarded the ever first Lifetime Achievement Award to Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel who received the honor from showing his exceptional sportsmanship in the world of cyber gaming that made eEsports marked as the new sport for the young generation.
