WCG Ultimate Gamer
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Format	Reality competition
Starring	Hannah Simone Joel Gourdin
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	16 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Syfy
Original run	March 10, 2009 – October 7, 2010
External links
Website

WCG Ultimate Gamer is a reality television program that airs on Syfy. It is sponsored by Samsung and WCG. The show is hosted by Hannah Simone and co-hosted by Joel Gourdin. The first season began airing on March 10th.^[1] A second season was confirmed at CES on January 7th 2010,^[2] and began airing on August 19, 2010.

Format[link]

WCG Ultimate Gamer has 12 gamers living in one loft. Each episode they would compete in a Real Life Challenge and in an Isolation Challenge. The Real Life Challenge complemented and provided a clue to the actual Xbox 360 game they were to play later in the Isolation challenge. For example, the players played paintball before playing Halo 3, had a dunk contest before playing NBA Live 09, and drifted cars before playing Project Gotham Racing 4. The gamer with the highest score from both challenges had the choice to pick one other gamer to play against the gamer with the lowest score in an Elimination Challenge where the loser goes home. The competitor with the highest score could also pick themselves to play the lowest scoring gamer, but this rule was discontinued in season 2. Sometimes the two gamers in the Elimination Challenge have to pick someone to partner with them in the challenge, but their partner is not at risk of elimination.

Seasons[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• WCG Ultimate Gamer at Syfy.com
• WCG Ultimate Gamer at the Internet Movie Database

Hannah Simone
Hannah Simone in March 2012.
Born	Hannah Simone (1980-08-03) August 3, 1980 (age 31) London, England
Occupation	Actress, model, television host, VJ
Years active	2005–present

Hannah Simone (born August 3, 1980) is a Canadian television host, actress, and former fashion model. From May 2006 to November 2008, she worked as a VJ for MuchMusic in Canada, and now stars as Cece Meyers on New Girl.

Biography[link]

Childhood[link]

Hannah Simone was born on August 3, 1980 in London, England. She is of Indian origin on her father's side, and her mother is half German-Italian and half Greek-Cypriot. Simone spent her early childhood in Calgary, Alberta. From ages 7–10, Simone moved through three continents, attending schools in each. At the age of 13, Simone was living in Cyprus, and was working as a fashion model and was featured on the cover of a leading local fashion publication,^{[clarification needed]} At 16 years old, Simone lived in New Delhi, India and attended the American Embassy school and at 17 returned to Canada. Initially settling at White Rock, British Columbia, then subsequently relocating to Vancouver.^[1]

Higher education[link]

While attending the University of British Columbia, Simone received a BA in International Relations and Political Science. In 2004, while at Ryerson University, she received a BA in Radio and Television Arts.

Early career[link]

For two years, she was a researcher for a book by Lloyd Axworthy, previously a Foreign Affairs minister under the Jean Chrétien cabinet. After this, she moved to the UK to volunteer for a short time with the United Nations Association in London supporting the Model UN program ^[1].

During her studies at Ryerson, she was a radio host at the campus-based CKLN-FM. Following her 2005 graduation from Ryerson, she became host of HGTV Canada's television show Space for Living for its first season.^[2]

Current career[link]

Simone worked at MuchMusic as a VJ at MuchMusic Headquarters, as a news presenter for "Much News Weekly" and, the host of the show The NewMusic. She related well to youth interested in alternative artists and interviewed many artists and bands during her time at Much. Simone stopped working at MuchMusic on 21 November 2008, stating that she had plans on moving to Los Angeles, California.^{[citation needed]}

She earned a role hosting WCG Ultimate Gamer alongside Joel Gourdin on Syfy.^[3][4] The series premiered on 10 March 2009 and ended after its second season on 7 October 2010. Simone currently stars on Fox's comedy New Girl alongside Zooey Deschanel.^[5]

Filmography[link]

Further reading[link]

• UNA-UK: "How to Run A Model UN Security Council (MUNSC) Event" (PDF format; Hannah Simone is a contributor)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Hannah Simone at the Internet Movie Database
• MuchMusic: Interview with Hannah