Fatal1ty Captures 10th Major PC Gaming Championship
Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel, the world's best known professional PC gamer, has captured first place, and his 10th major championship, worth $15,000, at the US stop of the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) World Tour. "The Cyberathlete Extreme Summer Championships 2005", held at the Gaylord Texan Resort near Dallas, Texas from July 6 through July 10, attracted over 7,000 gamers from 60 countries. The US stop was the fifth of ten stops on the CPL World Tour, which culminates with the $500,000 World Tour Championship Finals to be contested this November in New York City.
Fatal1ty was undefeated in all six matches during his march to the CPL Summer Championship. He was down by 1 game in three of the rounds before rallying to win all of his best of 3 matches. In the first game of the finals, he fell behind 7 to 0 against Sander "VoO" Kaasjager before coming back to win 12 to 11. Needing just one game to clinch the title, Fatal1ty opened the second game of the match on fire, with a dominating run of 22 to 0, leading to the sweep and decisive victory to take home the CPL Summer Championship 2005 title.
"I'm so happy to make the breakthrough and win a major championship playing Painkiller," says Wendel. "The hard work and intense training schedule paid off by beating a very tough, International field."
Fatal1ty now holds 10 Major Championship titles, doing so while competing in 5 different games - an achievement held by no other gamer. Adding to his professional career totals, Fatal1ty has now finished in the top three an amazing 52 times, with 39 first place finishes while competing in 57 pro tournaments. This is his first major championship playing the game "Painkiller."
The CPL World Tour now moves on to Leipzig, Germany where it will be held in conjunction with the Games Convention from August 19th through the 21st.
