Meet Jason Derr - AKA Fenrir (Fen)
I’m lucky enough to have entered the gaming world before ESPORTS was a thing. In my own community I got to enter what would later become a much larger entity. All these achievements, I never thought of putting on my resume. I always thought I needed to keep the gaming world, and all I do there, separate from the corporate world.
Now, I’m bringing them together and I want to share my accomplishments.
ESPORTS
· 2002 -2006
Late 2002 I entered a local Halo PVP tournament hosted by local comic book shops. ESPORTs wasn't really a thing at this time so anything done was created by yourself or comic book shops. During 2002 – 2006 some friends and I took to creating local tournaments. We had to rent a place, put up flyers at comic book shops, provide TVs (everyone brought their own XBOX), manage the financing, run the brackets, and distribute the prize pool money. The spots we rented out were VFW’s and American Legions.
Our biggest social media outlet, at the time, was MySpace. Players could sign up through our page in advance with the commitment of bringing an xbox.
· 2006 – 20012
I joined into the growing world of competitive mobile gaming. Storm 8 was the producer of the MMORPG of choice at the time. Competition was still more self-created at this time. Large clans would form of between 100 – 1000 members, put tags in front of your name and declare war on each other. Winners were determined by the communities.
I was a member of EOF, Empire of Fire – Largest clan on Storm 8 games reaching 2K+ members.
Positions held
1. Guard – No clan responsibilities, just a bodyguard
2. Clan Vanguard – First into battle every war. Foot soldier mostly
3. Lord Vanguard – Leader of war accounts. Organizing members based on leaderships declaration of war
4. War general – Like a clan leader but only over all fighting accounts. This also included running 100’s of bot accounts to throw into battle
5. Clan Elder - Responsible of giving final say on declaring wars and peace.
· 2012 – 2016
Early 2012 I entered into Call of Duty competitive world. Clans were self-created by the community with each player placing “tags” in front of their names in game. Example of this would be [420] Fenrir.
In 2013 the clan I was with [420] entered into official COD tournaments as the game finally entered into official esports.
· 2019 – 2023
Joined a, at the time, small MMORPG game called State Of Survival. With a community of about 2K players, SOS is a very competitive pay to play game. This game had a lot of different tournament-based activities. Water raid, Capital battle, Bunker/Fort battles, State vs State.
I was the creator, and leader of the alliance PAK, WolfPAK. At our height we were the #1 alliance in the state (server) and we had 2 full alliances (PAK, PaK) with 100 members each and a partially full 3rdalliance (pak).
I worked very close with the rest of my leadership in PAK to organize, plan, and execute events in game. This meant almost 24 hour involvement in the game since competition was so high. We were lucky to have I’mBatman in our server too. He was a content creator for the game and captured a lot of the competitiveness of the game. I’ve linked his youtube below.
Social Medias
MySpace
· (Bands local to the 717 area code) Setting up and customizing myspace pages for about 16 different bands. This involved coding in HTML and CSS to fully customize headers, backgrounds, and layouts.
· (717 Gaming – group made for halo tournaments) Setting up, customization, and management
· (Silent Productions – Small Production group for local bands) Setting up, customization, and management
Facebook - Groups
· (Pokémon Go – 717 District) Setting up, customization, and management
· (Pokémon Go Lancaster) Mod of group with over 50K + members. Responsible for maintaining group rules, management of post, event organization
· (Coolest Geeks) Setting up, managing, maintaining group rules, management of post, event organization. Still running till this day
Discords
· (Game – State of Survival) Discord mod for the official games discord server with 20K + members before moving to be a reddit mod for 10k +followers
· (Game – State of Survival) Creator and Community Manager for State/ Server 54’s Discord server which had 3k+ members. This involved full game integration, role generation, mod training, and event management
· (Game – State of Survival) Creator and Community Manager and content creation for PAK/ PaK/ Pak (one of the top clans in State/ Server 54) discord server which had 300 + members. This involved full game integration, role generation, event management, game training videos (didn’t use YouTube for a lot of these since they would affect competitive game play), and manuals
· (Game – State of Survival) Community Manager / Content creator for “Merge” server with 5K + members. This involved full game integration, role generation, mod training, and event management, and manuals
· (Game – State of Survival) Creator and tech support for 12 different clans discord servers not limited to State/ Server 54 totaling over 10K members This involved full game integration, role generation, mod training, and event management until offboarding
· (Game – White out Survival) Creator and tech support for 20 different clans discord servers, State/ Server discord servers totaling over 25K members. This involved full game integration, role generation, mod training, and event management until offboarding
· (Game – War Dragons) Creator and tech support for 6 different clans discord servers totaling 5K members
· (Game – Once Human) Creator and Community Manager for Ashen Shadows, a hive/ merchant’s guild. This involved full game integration, role generation, event management, manuals, and databasing. Group consists of 60 members but we produce (in game materials) for a community of 5K +
