Dennis "Thresh" Fong
| Thresh | |
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| Dennis Fong | |
Thresh (foreground) at a video game competition for a vendor at Comdex in 1997
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| Status | Retired |
| Born | March 11, 1977 |
| Hometown | Los Altos, California |
| Nationality |
Hong Kong United States |
| League |
Professional Gamers League Cyberathlete Professional League |
| Games |
Quake Quake II QuakeWorld |
| Career prize money | ≈US$16,000.00 |
| Nickname(s) | Thresh |
Dennis "Thresh" Fong (traditional Chinese: 方鏞欽; simplified Chinese: 方镛钦; pinyin: Fong Yong Qin; Jyutping: fong1 yung4 jam1) (born March 11, 1977) is an American businessperson, entrepreneur, and retired professional player of the first-person shooter video games Quake and Doom. He is a co-founder of Xfire, an instant messenger and social networking site for gamers which was acquired by Viacom for US$102 million in April 2006. He also co-founded Lithium Technologies, a leading Social customer relationship management (CRM) company. In his playing career his highest profile victory came in 1997 at the Red Annihilation Quake tournament, where he placed first and won id Software CEO John D. Carmack's Ferrari 328. Fong is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the first professional gamer.
Fong began playing Doom at the age of 16 in 1993. He initially chose the pseudonym Threshold of Pain, which referred to the ability to withstand enemy fire and suffering. However, as many games had an eight-character ID limit, he went with "Thresh" and liked the word's meaning of "to strike repeatedly".
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