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News Updated May 17, 2010

Partnership with Countdown321.net , WCG hopeful Thristee321

Over the past week, I noticed I averaged one hit a day from the website, Countdown321.net This is the official site of Life to the Power of X champion and WCG ultimate Gamer contestant, Jamal Nickens. He's been a good friend for a long time, if you don't believe me, look up "Nordonia Open" on youtube.com and you'll see a young me be a host, and a young Jamal be the co host during the first season and a contestant on the next 2 seasons. Jamal and I are coming together on 2 different projects, and I'd like to mention a third on this page.

First, Jamal is the all-time all-around game master. He beats quite a few games in a typical rental period. He has been the most consistently good player in our group. When Jamal won Life to the Power of X, I being the creator of the local hit show Jamal and I were involved in, created a show where Jamal puts himself at a distinct disadvantage and wins over 50% of the time. Jamal was playing well on Level 4 on Colecovision Games when he was age 3 (this was before I met him, so I can't verify, but based on above performance, I believe, and the time frame adds up mathematically too.) He's been playing many games well since then. I came u with a phrase to describe him, "The Jack of All Games". He may not be the number 1 performer of any one particular video game, but bring multiple genres, systems, eras, or any other qualifier of video games, and he'll beat you if the games were weighted equally. The phrase "A master at none" only applies to Jamal being the top single-game player who practices one game 8 hours a day, and plays nothing else. I was kicking around the idea of a tournament that Jamal would do well at, and later, in between Life and WCG, thought he would make a good house contestant you have to beat to win on a video game game show. What the American Gladiators did for all-around athletic competitions, and Ben Stein did for trivia game shows, Jamal will do for video game competitions. He'll challenge any player in games of their choice, not his, mix them up with 3 other contestants and their favorite games, and Jamal should come out on top over 50% of the time, the theory being, you may win your game that you picked against Jamal, but how well will you, Jamal, and 3 other random contestants do on a third contestant's favorite games, and a fourth and fifth too? If you happen to live in, or travel to, the Cleveland/Akron Ohio Area, and would like a competition to see how well rounded of a gamer you are, email my contestant hotline at netgameshowsATaimDOTcom Remember, in an Anti-spamming campaign, to replace the capital words, AT and DOT, with the @ and . symbols respectively. This way we know you're smarter than the average computer opponent Jamal usually crushes.

Speaking of Jack of All games, there was a good friend of his, and through Jamal, mine, who was thinking of applying to WCG Ultimate Gamer 1, but didn't and is now trying for Season 2. In a pre-production test run of Jack of All games, in an abbreviated 3-opponent game for Jamal, one person came in first place in all 3 main games. This means he beat Jamal in 2 random games neither picked. His name is Jake "Thirstee321" Pfister. And he needs your vote to be a WCG Ultimate Gamer Season 2 contestant. Click here to see Jake's WCG Ultimate Gamer interview video , and more importantly, to vote for him. Anyone who can beat Jamal and 2 other random people in 2 random games the other 2 random people chose deserves my and your vote for WCG Contestant.

Also of Note, the other person who edge Jamal by one point in that game, Jeremy "Friktion321" Reilly liked the game enough and can give the show better production talent (namely Jeremy) and equipment (namely the borrowed equipment from his Kent State Video Production School) where he'll make the final production versdio of the show to air on youtube.com . I did a second video, mainly to see if I can do a good show, and to see how much better he ca do, and Jeremy said for someone who had no formal training and just one Digital SD camera, a DVD recorder, and basic knowledge and access to iMovie, I did as good as I could do, based upon Jamal's request of showing enough contestant footage to make the human drama watchable. I showed it to a couple of companies, just to show the concept of the game and the fact I have Jamal on Board, and like the show enough where they'll want to see a more professional version when ready. The potential sponsor wanted to see even more footage of the game, and the contestants during the games, and Jeremy can help with that. Look for the link to the youtube show when ready.