Today is a significant and somewhat sad day for the GotFrag.com family. One of our founders, Trevor “Midway” Schmidt has decided to move on to other things.

Trevor and I have been friends for about as long as GotFrag has been around. Before the summer of 2002, when sW – Midway sent scores and news reporting back to a few teammates of mine to post on clanrdw.com, I only knew him as a west coast, high pinger who worked at DomainOfGames.com and screamed on RogerWilco when he’d get a lag spike. Back then, the competitive gaming scene was very different than today. The all-star teams then were WeW, CK, TAU and a bunch of other teams that don’t even exist today. And there was no GotFrag.com.

After a wildly successful summer of posting news and scores from events, Jason “balboafx[rdw]” Coene, Joe “joekerfx[rdw]” Hoffend, Pash “critikalfx[rdw]” Mrnaci, and Trevor “Midway” Schmidt spent the next few months designing an eSports coverage site. On November 24th, 2002, GotFrag.com was launched. Over the next 30 days, almost 200 pieces of content would be written or edited by Trevor. And over the next 6 years, Trevor would be instrumental in defining how the competitive gaming world would be perceived, covered and followed.

Along the way, he would influence the rules that we still use today in competitive Counter-Strike “MR15”, cover hundreds of events world-wide, and broadcast as the color commentator for dozens of other events. As a writer and editor, he produced over 1300 pieces of content including some of the most insightful and analytical pieces in a space filled with bloggers, architected GameSense which remains the authoritative stats database for competitive counter-strike and was absolutely fearless in his pursuit of great stories. As a business partner and founder, he guided the strategic direction of the leading eSports site in the world, helped design and promote the Version 2 and Version 3 launches and helped make us into a vibrant, growing community.

Since joining the Major League Gaming family, Trevor has been an instrumental part of the MLG PC Circuit, helping to explore a whole new realm of competitive gaming in the MMO Genre.

Trevor has also been a great sanity check over the years and an innovator in many ways which I won’t delve into here. Suffice to say that in the PC eSports scene, there wasn’t a single aspect of the sport that Trevor didn’t touch at one point or another in his six year career as an eSports fan.

More importantly to me, he is a great friend. GotFrag still has a lot of exciting growing to do, and I’m sad that he won’t be there to share that with us.

To Trevor, I wish you the best of luck and continued success. I hope the community will join me in saying GL and GFG. I’m sure we’ll be seeing each other soon, but in the meantime, thanks for the memories (One Team man! Eat the KoolAid!) and good luck. Thanks for being an amazing guy to work with and congratulations again on all the successes.

~Lee
President
GotFrag.com