Nice photoshopping!

i agree

I've been waiting for this news, really awesome interview.

nice work [+]

direct links plz

Here you go, lol: http://www.gamingjunky.com/article/2007/4/8/f...interview/

I agree with others, very nice formatting/layout of the interview.

my main goal is to work with CGS and bring gaming to mainstream awareness.

that's the way to do it : promote it using a star, instead of using stupid games in competition events

edit : very good itw, gotta love fat

nice interview, great layout, gj

nice iview, great layout .. keep it up =)

awesome interview, well done Jared, and nice answers from fat. [+]

Interesting read, I must say. I'm sorry to hear that your mom was so strict Mr. John, I know kids who had the same type of parents - they love them but boy, it's never good to be tied down like a dog. I'm glad my parents are supportive of whatever I do, at least for the most part :].

It was also great to see some old casts like the Doom 3 video, brings back some good memories. I'm glad I have been apart of the eSports community for these past 5 or so years, it has proven to be not a fad but a lifestyle (unlike, lets say, my pokemon years ;].)

Also mad props to the design of this and all of your interviews GJ, there should be an award for you out there. You might want to start making magazines as well, you'd blow GotFrag out of the water ;).

Hrm... well that's all I have to say. Great job again with the interview!

general managers? wtf! please no!
i remember mr.frost saying on some UT lan tournament in france a few ears ago that "gaming doesn't need trainers" or something like that. people that time the items for the players etc. this is a very similar situation imo!

fat again. boooring!

this is actually far better and more in-depth questions than any fat interview ive ever read..probably because the relationship between the interviewer and the interviewee

nice 1 Streetrunner, never really read interviews with anyone but atfer seeing the comments i understand why i did. so good job keep it up!.

Cya in another 3 months!

rly nnice interview, great work with the format etc. an exemplary interview!

honestly, this must be one of the best esports interviews i've read. gj streetrunner!

i wonder if his mom was bangin that lawyer guy

great interview!

Love Streetrunner

awesome awesome interview

This is probably the best Fatal1ty interview I've read. I disagree on one thing with him (even though I realise he has to say stuff which is not necessarily precise to promote CGS) -- "first time you can get into a league where there's significant money if you make the cut"? Anyone who has the skills will get into a top team or a world class event in no time... You don't need CGS for that.

What does that have to do with money >.>

Anyone who has the skills will get into a top team or a world class event in no time... You don't need CGS for that.

I'm absolutely sure you're wrong here but it would take quite some effort to talk this through :}

av3k?

There's so many talented gamers out there who will never get anywhere near those tournaments because of
a) not knowing the right people to get into the big teams
b) not being in a situation that allows playing enough to compete.

Maybe we're talking about different things here and you didn't mean that but to me you sounded like a believer of the 'play hard go pro' bs which is just that... bullshit.

a) not knowing the right people to get into the big teams
b) not being in a situation that allows playing enough to compete.

a) If you are good enough the people will find you. It's their job.
b) If you are not in a situation that allows playing enough to compete you will not pass the draft anyway.

You just stated the opposite of what I said without giving reasons. That's neither an answer to my post nor the start of a discussion.

I have some experience with so called "pro-gaming" teams and from what I've gathered over the years skill alone won't take you anywhere. Most of the guys I played with got picked thanks to the someone-knows-someone scheme and not mainly because of their skills.
Also whether or not you get a sponsor to help you getting to those tournaments is even more of a lottery... and we all know that. Just look at how all-the-rage (atr) disbanded and blue dropping of the face of the (quake) world immediately. Same thing might happen to someone like forever real soon. You'll find even better examples in the US.

In response to lauke: I don't mean the 'to poor to buy a pc' scenario but rather everyone growing up and coming to the point where playing pc games for a living becomes less and less of an option with every year passing. Again skill is not the determing factor if you succeed here.

Draft = you play pro if you're good enough. CLOSED professional leagues like the NBA do that and, afaik, there is no other way to enter.

Gaming right now is OPEN. If you are good enough you will be picked up by a better team or you will win your WCG / ESWC qualifier. You will get there. There is no need for a "casting" of any kind.

You're right about the DRAFT stuff of course. That's not even in question.
I'm talking about 'OPEN gaming' and I'm not a close-minded person :)... for over a year basically me/my team searched for sponsor and besides what diablo and killer got there's nothing left here. We talked to every clan you know and some - either the teams didn't have money or didn't want to invest into quake. Lots of reasons for that.

At the point of last years ESWC we had two guys at the lan qualifiers and one in paris & arguably the strongest tdm lineup in germany. After getting screwed over the cost of travelling to those lans (and food/stay etc.) we left the team we were in and never found anyone else bothering with quake.
If I wanted to get into this years ESWC
- I'd have to get past online qualifiers... which are a joke if it comes to competetive gaming
- I'd need money I don't have to get to the lan qualifiers
- Although I'm very lucky to be still at uni I could've a job also which might prohibit me from going to cologne or later paris.

How exactly is skill really the point here? I don't see it. You're one of those who made it in the gaming scene but just because you did doesn't mean it's possible for everyone else.

Take a look at Cypher, take a look at av3k, take a look at LoSt CaUzE. They all basically came out of nowhere because they have skill.

Of course if you come from a country where there are no Quake 4 tournaments to show yourself you're basically screwed unless you want to invest in yourself (a flight to London is not that expensive for a German guy, now is it?).

But you'd be screwed draft or no draft because there's just no fkn way you would be good enough without competitions to improve your skill in.

Both of you have valid points.

Its true that skill is not the only thing that will drive you to the top: You'll need to be on a place where other people play the game you play for LAN practice. The best example here should be Russia: All the great players here, played a shitload of Quake at russian LAN centers, where, for their fortune, Quake 3 has been, and still is (ASUS Cups and those ones with weird russian names) a very active game. They had the luck to be born on the same area (Moscow) and grow up playing.

Now, if you are born on a place where Quake is not that big, and you don't have LAN partners, and have near to cero Quake events, you'll need to pay for yourself trips to other countries, and play your CPL, ESWC, WSVG etc. Preferibly the most important ones, since you are paying the travel for yourself, and you'll get how it feels to play at the biggest events vs the best, which is the best method to gain the experience needed to play such tournaments.

Thats where the fucked part comes in:
The "pay for yourself" thing its OBLIGATORY, since in your country, as I mentioned, there are practically no Quake related events, and the ones that happen are so irrelevant that you'll not get a sponsor, which is the thing that will decide if you can, or not, make a living (or at least, stay on top and keep playing tournaments) out of gaming.

On the other hand, admiting that there are people with some advantages, almost everyone had to take that step where you have to risk money to travel, and have what it takes to play on the biggest tournaments. You'll have to keep trying instead of whining and trying to convince yourself you don't like this anymore, you are too old, IRL bs, and the rest of emo excuses.

And thats it, my point is basically: There are people with advantages, but anyway it can be done with the effort it takes.

Well you're looking from a sport perspective on this, like where scouts find out good basketball or football players while watching some local matches etc. or even a degree lower like searching for swimmers or skiers in some clubs which didn't even participate on events.

No-one is really scouting in the "e-sport" scene tbh. All they do is watch the high profile LANs for who's good, and what about the players who aren't there?
Many of players with high potential haven't got the money nor the premission from parents or even the will at that age to travel overseas or even 200km to attend a high profile LAN where they could be discovered.

Scouting the local servers might be a start, you would be amazed what you can find there. Sure online is not the same as local, but if you would arrange and stimulate a meeting I bet you could find the needle in the hay.

Not everyone is born like Fat with a will to be the best at everything, some need stimulation and a guiding hand at least for the start in my opinion.

Sure, where do you think Serious Gaming found av3k? :)

I'm sorry but I think Carmac is right. Of course you could be in a really poor situation and not able to buy a pc that plays q4 faster than 10 fps. If you have the talent and lot's of patience and perseverance you'll make it.

this applies to pretty much anything in life...
i think zealot is just a very fixed minded person

Fat vs Stelam on t4 inspired me to play quake. Fat had never disappointed me since then. He's extremely friendly on LANs and has an idea of what he stands for. Perfect candidate for esports representation.

And mad [+] for interview and editing

nice, streetrunner post a comment so we can plus you :> really like gamingjunky's innovative designs

very nice guy that fatal1ty fella.
i have faith in him anyway :)

Excellent work and that layout is by far the best i have seen in a long time. Kudos for the great work StreetRunner and keep 'em coming!

Post a comment? um.. Quake 4 rules? ;) F>

ur pushing it i think xDDDD

j/k, great work man!!!

Jarod.

You're fucking awesome.

I love you.

You better be at LANwar.

wrong comment!! :(

but i'll plus you anyway :P

top interview, and the layout looks sexy.

nice iview

yenice layout

Wow yeah, that interview and layout was awesome.

Very nice

Great Interview, I loved the vids, cool idea!

great iview!

Fatal1ty:I believe all of you gamers have seen how committed I am to competing and winning tournaments. I plan to use this same effort to bring gaming forward as a whole for all of us, and will always try to bring gaming to a positive outcome no matter how difficult it is. I will defend this sport, this passion, and this dream of ours to play games and have fun and play professionally. Gaming is truly great in every aspect, and this is a lifetime goal for me. I promise you that I will never leave gaming behind.

come to germany and spread the word! :)

now that was awesome. loved the magazine type layout although it was hard to read a times. the actual content was fantastic too.
10 / 10

This has to go down as one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen fatality say:

And you know, to make that clutch move or clutch shot to win the game. Even in a team game, like in my Quake 3 days; it was great that I knew that I could make my team better by working with them. But also, at the same time I could turn my game up to get those extra points to win the match on individual skill. Just like Kobe, Jordan, and O'Neal do for basketball.

That's complete fantasy material imagined up in fat's mind and rewritten over his own memories of the actual events. You can't compare yourself to Jordan or Kobe, always being the player to lift your team to victory in pressure situations, when you played all your significant TDM matches with czm who is hands down the best North American Q3TDM player of all time and the clutchest also. Nobody would deny fat achieved much and played in one of the best TDM teams in NA history but that comparison is not only untrue it doesn't even work in the sense of the analogy. Nobody had to carry Jordan and Kobe like czm had to carry cK at times.

Remember though if ridiculous comments like that make you have any negative thoughts about fatality it has to be because you're just a "hater" or jealous...

agreed

I vaguely recall fat utterly locking down the RL room on DM14 in the finals of one of the first lan TDM tourneys. I believe it was cK vs r3v and that he did carry cK to the win. It impressed the hell out of me.

Mind you, my memory is pretty shite so I could be a little off base.

He's patting himself on the back there. But I read it a few times...I think the analogy is correct...

In the first part you seem to explain the analogy in the way I do, while in the second part you state:

Nobody had to carry Jordan and Kobe like czm had to carry cK at times.

Which is not something he implied?

But maybe my english is not sufficient. Could be a way of saying things, that gets lost in translation.

I don't really want to go into great detail here since unless you know a lot about the careers of those NBA players and fatality a lot of it isn't going to be as obvious as it should be, let me put it simply: fat claimed he was similar to Jordan and Kobe in that he stepped up in the pressure situations to bring his team to victory. That's a lie, he might have done that on a couple of occasions over his entire tdm career but in reality the player who had that role was czm and when one looks at the strength of the overall US tdm field and the way czm played the game fat was essentially just a good tdm player playing alongside one of the greatest and he certainly wasn't the one who had to step up in the pressure situations to get the win for his team.

So Fatal1ty = Scottie Pippen?

That's a more apt analogy for sure.

I agree. Fatality was a good TDMer but I always thought there were a few other cK guys who were better. Didn't cK also try to come back later(with Fatality playing) and lose to KFC? My memory is hazy on Q3 TDM.

I also found his claims to be a top 16/32 Q1er to be funny. I think what he really meant was, even at a young age he already had his arrogance. It's his own comments, or the fact he always goes along with an interviewer's ridiculous claims is why people view him as arrogant. He seems to forget that he has actually lost many times.

yeah what the hell.... as if he was top 16-32.... maybe top 16-32 in america, but definitely not the world...

Good read

:). I don't know how he manages to look so gormless in every picture even when he's posing.

bump

ut3?

he played 2k3...

i knowzz, he said that he wanted to play a new game.. so i thought maybe ut3.

If Fatal1ty brand keeps sponsoring WSVG this year, I dont think it will hapen. Otherwise CGS+UT3+F1 sounds probable.

Hmm, good interview in general. I liked it. It leaned a bit to much on graphics though.

fata should finally get into politics, very diplomatic answers :)))
great iview

Wow, no flame at all at esreality ?

Sorry, but that iview might have a good layout and interesting parts, but in the end its just a pr gag for fatality. All question go in a "fatality is the best of the best of the best of the best and noone was ever near his skill" direction.
The last iview streetrunner took was going in the same direction, just because he knows fatality personally. Same with mibr and so on....

isn't this the purpose of every iview? let the ppl know how fuckin awesome you are? :D

i like the iview GJ!

I'd ask him a couple more questions, a bit more difficult than "explain to us the idea of..." but the interview was great nonetheless, mostly because it covered a ton of areas that past interviews haven't (and that's actually a difficult thing considering it's the most interviewed gamer on earth, or something).

not "it's the most interviewed gamer" it's "he's the most interviewed gamer" you noob!

"It's Fatal1ty we're talking about!"

This kind of it.

Oh, Fat's comment about an FPS game being the only true sport has to seem a big confusing for the Korean population....

:D

Yeah I was thinking about the reactions that comment will get when I read it.


Great interview. Content was great even though I never did care too much about his personal life anyway.., layout was great and the video's were a great touch as well. All in all very profesionally done.. actually I take that back since I have seen more then a dozen interviews done by profesionals that were half cocked. I'll just stick with Great interview. :)


btw, his mom sounds like a total bitch. lol I wonder what her side of the story is.

Simple - she tried to play the odds right with him. If you want to become a superstar at anything the odds will always be against you. Perhaps she thought that if she would let Fat do what he believed in it would consume him to an extent that he would forgo school and the 9 to 5 prospects.

Considering that he did just that as soon as he got free reign you I could understand her fright to some extent. Still, it's just not right to inhibit a young person like that. Whatever her side of the story is, you just don't do that shit unless someone is as hopeless as Danger in "The Million Dollar Baby."

pot odds > implied odds in this case :F

very nice interview and very nice layout on it :) gj :)

He's our hero.

cooller is!

very good interview

streetrunner knocking out quality content as always :)

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Update: it works again, great read! kind of best interview ever, fat in a good spotlight again...

new hairstyle? me likes it!

who is he kidding with that last answer? almost ruined the whole interview =//

the statement about his dedication or whatever?

that pretty much was the final nail in the coffin. the interview came across as excessive and rather fixed, a little too tried if you like and then of course that statement just over did it.


nice none the less

Nice!

I'd like to see some pro-q3dm6 cooller vs fatal1ty matches
I think we all know who would win
and those "yeeeh" from the event every time fatal1ty made a frag on cooller were annoying
(talking about flames) :D

err where were you when q3 was really around? lol

they played plenty of times

er they didn't?

fat was done with Q3 for the second time by the time wcg 2002 rolled around, and that's when cooller got noticed on a larger scale (well people were already watching him considering he won the russian qualis)

are you serious?

that's crazy if they never really played against each other :O

could have sworn i've seen matches between the two

MY BAD <3

rofl

Want to make money?

Get good at a game quickly, win a few comps, then pull out while you're on top... you know why? because all these little freaks in russian or poland or whatever who are playing 24/7 are going to catch you... a new game comes out every year or so, so its not too hard. When your name is made, you can sell things and do other things. Thresh pretty much invented this in gaming.

tbh I don't care about fatal1ty or cooller that much either
my favourite players were ZeRo4 and Lakerman

nice idea including the vids, well done :)

does anybody got old fatality qw demos?
and who is his opponent in this vid?