Please HELP

[johnevans3]

I want to share some interesting and good news about my son Patrick Evans.

For years, Patrick has played video games online with people from all over
the world.  He recently participated in two competition events, one state
wide event in Austin, Texas and a U.S. regional in Houston, Texas.  He did very well in
both events considering the thousands of people competing including
professional gamers.

He has been contacted by Major League Gaming from New York who is the
company behind several of the online gaming competition events in the US and
abroad and MTV regarding a contest for the "Best College Gamer".  Patrick is
now considered as one of the top 5 college gamers in North America.  MTV did
a video taped interview with Patrick at his college this past Thursday and
Friday for an upcoming news special on the hottest new entertainment
segment, on line gaming.  It is projected to be as important as music, TV,
movies, etc., and is a 10 billion dollar industry now according to CNN.  My
son in law, a graduate student at Un. of Houston saw the taped interview
with him yesterday on MTVU, a MTV service beamed to 700 colleges and
universities in the US and Canada.

He has been selected to go to New York and compete with four others for the
"Best College Gamer".  The game competition will be broadcast on the
Jumbotron TV screen in Times Square and on MTV, Thursday April 21 at 4:00PM
central time. If he does well enough to win, he would get a contract with
Major League Gaming as a professional gamer to represent them in marketing
and promotional competition events around the country.  Even if he doesn't
win the event, there are possibilities for other things to happen because of
the contacts with the company and MTV.

Who knows where this will go, but Patrick is very excited about this and I
am very happy for him.  I will keep you posted on how this plays out. Just
to make the MTV interview as a contender for the championship is really
exciting and a big deal for him.  Patrick's email address is
patrickevans83@hotmail.com    if you want to drop him a line for
encouragement.  Thanks for your support of him.

This morning MTVU.com has posted a vote for your favorite college gamer
page.  Please go to the following webpage and vote for Patrick Evans.

http://www.mtvu.com/contests/best_gamer_on_campus/2005/ Thanks again.
John

[SACK-U]

Wow that is way too cool!

btw, what is his game of choice?

[johnevans3]

Since Oct. he has been playing Halo II.  He is in NY right now in the heat of competition but I don't know what's going on.  It's just killing me not knowing how my boy is doing.  thanks for asking.  I will post a followup as soon as I hear something.

[gulf917]

Thats very cool...i got hooked on the Halo series myself...my wife hates it, but at least i dont kick the dog when i'm in a bad mood, i just take it out on the Covenant bad guys...give him our best...

[johnevans3]

My son, Patrick called late last night and said he had been eliminated in the second round.  Out of all the games he has played, he had played that particular game only four to five hours in the past.  It was just a bad "luck of draw" to get that particular game.  Ironically, the remaining three guys will be playing a game today that Patrick knows well and plays at a very competitive level, but they don't know how to play it.  So last night, he was coaching all three on how to play the game that they will be competing on today.  He was disappointed, but said he was having a blast.
Now for the good news, Thanks to all of you, Patrick received the highest number of votes, over 15,000!!!!!!  He wanted us to tell everyone a big THANK YOU.  He couldn't believe so many people cared about him in this competition. The judges said that they were blown away on how many more votes he received compared to the others.   I believe he won the "Mr. Congenialtiy Contest" part of this event and that makes me very proud of my son.
Again, I want to thank you for spending your time to help Patrick in this quest.  This has been a highlight in his life to be selected and participate at this level.
Hope to see some of you guys at Le Mans in June.

[johnevans3]

Followup on the Best Gamer on Campus Competition

On the website below is the entire set of interviews with each of the 5 Best Gamer on Campus finalists plus excerpts of the competition itself.  It does take a high speed connection for these videos.  Scroll down to close to the bottom of the page for Patricks interview.
I had promised each of you to keep you up to date on any information that had come from this.  You and others who voted for him helped him get the most votes, over 15,000 and allowed him an automatic advance to the 2nd round.  Unfortunately, the game they played was not one he had not played more than a couple of hours in his life and he was eliminated.  Even more unfortunate is the round 3 game, Splinter Cell is one Patrick is very good at and he actually was coaching the 3 left on how to play it.  He did say he had a great time in NY and really appreciated your support.
Thanks again
John

http://www.mtvu.com/contests/best_gamer_on_campus/2005/