World's best known gamer challenges all comers at DOOM 3™

August 9, 2004 Think you have what it takes to challenge 3-time CPL champion Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel? At Quakecon 2004 from there's never been a better opportunity to find out. ABIT invites you to take on Fatal1ty at the Quakecon 2004 Fatal1ty DOOM 3™ Shootout™ . Quakecon 2004 is slated to be the official launch of id Software's DOOM 3™, touted to be the most technologically advanced game ever released. Launched worldwide on August 3 of 2004, it means that all challengers have equal footing against Fatal1ty. If you've got the skills, beat Fatal1ty 1v1 and score some wicked prizes, including the very first ABIT Fatal1ty Motherboard.

QuakeCon is free to the public and is held every year in the Dallas , Texas area. This year players will be competing on a whole new arena, DOOM 3™, which has just hit store shelves. No one has had time to practice or master the game and with the even playing field almost any QuakeCon attendee could win the tournament and walk away with one of the much anticipated, exclusive DOOM 3™ prizes.

“2004's biggest game launched at one of the biggest events means an exciting time for all,” notes Wendel. “I've had the same amount of time with the game as everyone else, and welcome all challengers to my shootout at Quakecon 2004.”

Other events include an Overclocking Clinic hosted by ABIT with VIA Technologies , maker of performance chipsets. In fitting style, they will be showing all attendees how to squeeze maximum performance from their gaming systems using what Hard|OCP declares as the Ultimate DOOM 3 Motherboard, the ABIT KV8 Pro based on the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset.

Quakecon 2004 will also be the official launch of the ABIT Fatal1ty Motherboard . Be one of the first to witness this revolutionary new gaming platform at Hard|OCP's [H]ardware Workshop , which takes place on Saturday, August 14, at 1:00pm . Using never-before seen components, the ABIT Fatal1ty Motherboard will be the gaming motherboard of choice, bar none.

“ABIT users have been chomping at the bit to get a glimpse of the new ABIT Fatal1ty lineup,” says ABIT Marketing Director Scott Thirlwell. “At Quakecon 2004, they'll get their chance at the Hard|OCP [H]ardware Workshop.”

The Fatal1ty Shootout at QuakeCon 2004 will be open to all fellow gamers of all skill levels that wish to test their abilities against the world's best known gamer. Shootout schedule and details for challengers will be available at the Fatal1ty Shootout stage and also posted at http://www.fatal1ty.com/, http://www.abitgamer.com/ and http://www.abit-usa.com/. Shootouts will be contested on Fatal1ty/PWX concept systems as at all previous events. Fatal1ty Shootouts have recently been held at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles and Computex in Taipei , Taiwan . The Fatal1ty Shootout program will go on the road to Europe immediately following QuakeCon.

Partner companies, including Creative, Zalman, Kingston , PWX, Auravision , and MDDM will be at the Shootout as well, showing off their latest performance gaming hardware for Quakecon attendees.

Visit ABIT at booth C1 to signup for the Fatal1ty DOOM 3 Shootout. Participants will be drawn lottery-style to take on the champ.

Preliminary Event Schedule at ABIT booth C1
Date Activity Time
Thursday 8/12 ABIT/Fatal1ty/Creative/Zalaman booth hours 10am-9pm
  Fatal1ty Shootout 11a-1pm & 3p-5pm
  ABIT Overclocking Clinic 2pm & 6pm
  Press Meetings 10am-9pm

Friday 8/13 ABIT/Fatal1ty/Creative/Zalaman booth hours 10am-9pm
  Fatal1ty Shootout 11a-1pm & 3p-5pm
  ABIT Overclocking Clinic 2pm & 6pm
  Press Meetings 10am-9pm

Saturday 8/14 ABIT/Fatal1ty/Creative/Zalaman booth hours 10am-7pm
  Fatal1ty Shootout 11a-1pm & 3p-5pm
  Fatal1ty Motherboard Launch 1pm-2pm
  ABIT Overclocking Clinic 2pm & 6pm
  Press Meetings 10am-7pm

Sunday 8/15 ABIT/Fatal1ty/Creative/Zalaman booth hours 10am-12pm
  Press Meetings 10am-12pm


For the latest updates on the Quakecon 2004 Fatal1ty DOOM 3 Shootout, go here:
http://www.fatal1tyshootouts.com/  |  http://www.fatal1ty.com/  |  http://www.abitgamer.com/

For more information on ABIT and BulletProof Technology, go here: http://www.abit-usa.com/

For more information on Kingston , go here: http://www.kingston.com/

For more information on Creative, go here: http://www.creative.com/

For more information on Zalman, go here: http://www.zalmanusa.com/

For more information on MDDM/PWX and Auravision, go here: http://www.auravision.com/  |  http://www.mddmlabs.com/