I need your help PLEASE

[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

[smokie]

Vote cast...

Curious that when you have voted it gives you the chance to vote again...so I did.

Good luck to Patrick...  

[jpchenet]

Well spotted Smokie!!

I've thrown a couple of votes behind Patrick as well!!

[Perdu]

Hmm, I'm not entirely sure I should vote for someone in what seems to be a Ferrarri Cap, but what the hell? Good Luck young 'un.
 

Bill


(ps yes I did it twice too, but I am also worried in case double voting cancels the first vote)

 

[Canada Phil]

(ps yes I did it twice too, but I am also worried in case double voting cancels the first vote)

 

Incase Perdu is right I voted 3 times
The Fix is in Now.
Canada Phil

[Dave H]

Vote cast too.  I'm assuming Patrick doesn't get out much!

[Steve Pyro]

Voted John.
Good luck to Patrick.

[TonyT]

Just voted. Good luck.

[Abs]

Voted, good luck.

[Jem]

Vote done, good luck.

Jem

[Mr. Invincible Mou]

Just threw in my three votes as well.

Wishing him all the best. And make sure that if he wins and earns a fortune, he knows where all these extra votes came from  

[Bob U]

Three votes from me.
Good luck  

[johnevans3]

Thanks a bunch folks, I really appreciate your helping the boy out.  I want to get him off my payroll and on somebody else's.  And this may be the way to do it.  The winner gets a professional gamer contract with Major League Gaming but there could be other opportunities as well.  Patrick's passion is gaming so if this works out he can follow his dreams.  There are lots of folks who hate their jobs and do them just to provide for their families and how sad that is.  I love to see folks who love what they do, it just lightens the spirit and makes life better.  Thanks again to all of you who have voted and those of you who haven't, please reconsider.  
John

[Rhino]

Just voted.
Reminds me of a cartoon in Mad magazine. Has the parents looking at their son playing a video game. In their minds they imagine a paper with job adverts for "nintedo players wanted £50,000"

[johnevans3]

Rhino, You are absolutely right about the parents looking for job adverts for their gamer.  I told him years ago that he was wasting so much time with these games, and that he would wind up living in a cardboard box on the side of the road if he didn't start doing something productive with his life.  Now, it's in your face dad.  Boy, how little did I know.  Anyway,here is a website that explains the competition.  This is a bigger deal that I had even imagined.

http://wire.ign.com/articles/594/594491p1.html?fromint=1

If you haven't voted, please do.  The site to vote is on my first posting above.  Thanks and looks like I have a lot of debt to pay when I see you guys at Le Mans.....