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