Overview
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Name | Alex Ascencion | ||||||||||||||||||||
Country of Birth | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
Birthday | May 18, 1997 (age 26) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Residency | Latin America | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Team | Pittsburgh Knights | ||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Captain | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Alex "SuMuNs" Ascencion is a Gears of War esports player, currently the captain for Pittsburgh Knights.
Biography
SuMuNs was introduced to Gears of War 2 by a friend at the age of 11. He told SuMuNs it was the best game that he ever played so he decided to give it a try. SuMuNs started playing it all night long and immediately became addicted to the game. He started getting into the competitive seen by being in a community called Underground. Underground was similar to the Gamebattles but wasn't run on a website, and the rankings were kept on a YouTube Channel. From there SuMuNs got into Gamebattles in Gears of War 3 and played more than 2,000 matches.
Trivia
- Growing up one of SuMuNs favorite hobbies was "tagging", or what most people call it Graffitti. He always did his artwork in sketchbook and gave himself a name because every tagger had a name. He came up with "SuMuoNs" so when he tried to change his gamertag "SuMuoNs" was taken. His only option was then to change the "o" to a "u".
- SuMuNs' favorite video game is Gears of War 3.
- SuMuNs did competitive swimming, triathlon, water polo, cross country, road biking and mountain biking as a kid.