aceu
Brandon "aceu" Winn (born April 7, 1995) is a retired American player who is currently playing as a streamer for Sentinels.
aceu entered Apex Legends as a former Counter Strike player and quickly made a name for himself due to his flashy gameplay. Initially playing for NRG Esports in the first year of the game's release, he eventually retired from competing to focus on streaming and content creation.
- See also: aceu: Biography
Information[edit]
Settings[edit]
Mouse | eDPI | DPI | Polling Rate | Sensitivity | ADS |
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FinalMouse Starlight Pro Tenz | 1680 | 1600 | 1000 Hz | 1.05 | 1.0 |
Mouse | Curvature | Circumference | Mouse Setup | Sensitivity | ADS |
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FinalMouse Starlight Pro Tenz | 2218 MPI 1.455 deg/mm | 9.7 in/rev 24.638 cm/rev | 1600 DPI @ 1000 Hz | 1.05 | 1.0 |
Gear[edit]
Keyboard | Mouse | Mousepad | Headset | Monitor | Resolution |
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Wooting 60-HE | FinalMouse Starlight Pro TenZ (Small) | Artisan Hayate Otsu Soft | Apple Earpods | ZOWIE XL2546 | 1920x1080 |
Achievements[edit]
Date | Place | Tier | Tournament | Team | Prize | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2023-02-17 | 3rd - 4th | A-Tier (Showm.) | Twitch Rivals TDM Drop In | $12,675 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2022-12-01 | 3rd | A-Tier (Showm.) | Disguised Toast's: Hide and Seek Invitational #2 | $5,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2022-10-08 | 5th | S-Tier (Showm.) | TwitchCon San Diego 2022 | $12,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019-09-29 | 1st | S-Tier (Showm.) | TwitchCon San Diego 2019 | $60,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019-09-15 | 12th | S-Tier | Apex Legends Preseason Invitational | $8,400 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019-08-29 | 1st | A-Tier (Showm.) | Twitch Rivals - Road to TwitchCon San Diego #1 North America | $5,408 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019-08-14 | 2nd | A-Tier (Showm.) | Twitch Rivals: Apex Legends Solo Showdown | $11,300 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019-04-13 | 2nd | S-Tier (Showm.) | TwitchCon Europe Showdown 2019 | $41,600 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019-04-13 | 1st | A-Tier (Showm.) | TwitchCon Europe Showdown 2019 - Qualifier 2 | $11,200 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019-03-30 | 2nd | A-Tier | T1 x FACEIT Apex Legends Invitational | $5,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Extended list of results |
Earnings Chart[edit]
Biography[edit]
After being dropped from eUnited's Counter-Strike team in late 2018, aceu began to focus on streaming.[5] Several months later, Apex Legends was released, which aceu picked up. He quickly went viral due to his flashy, movement-focused playstyle. This quick rise in popularity led to him joining NRG Esports on March 6th, 2019 where he played alongside former Counter-Strike friend Coby "dizzy" Meadows.[6]
The team intially found a lot of success in Twitch Rivals tournaments that used a Kill Race based format. However, as the competitive scene developed to focus more onto the Battle Royale genre and realizing what a competitive Battle Royale entailed, aceu lost interest in competing, even stating that it made him dislike the game. [7] Despite this, he still remained with the team. NRG was invited to the Preseason Invitational in Poland, where they narrowly made the finals by finishing one point ahead of GamersOrigin in the Winners Bracket Finals. In Grand Finals, NRG struggled throughout the series, scoring less than 3 points on average for all but one round. However, they still managed to place 12th due to their second-last game, where they finished 2nd with 18 total kills (the largest amount of kills within a single game in Grand Finals). To wrap up the year, the team attended TwitchCon San Diego, where they managed to win their group, and aceu was awarded the MVP of the tournament.
After TwitchCon, aceu released his movement guide. This guide introduced many players to the possibilities that movement brought within the game and also explained how to execute various movement techniques, such as slide jumping, wallbouncing and redirecting, laying the early fundamentals of movement within Apex Legends.
At the start of 2020, aceu played the initial Major Qualifier, but NRG failed to advance. The circuit was also halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, aceu decided to transition into a content creator role within the organization.[7]
Aceu remained with NRG for another 2 years, focusing on streaming and growing his content into other games such as VALORANT. He finally parted ways with NRG on October 20th, 2022.[8] He signed with Sentinels as a content creator on November 11th, 2022.[9]
Media[edit]
Gallery[edit]
-Ace with eUnited
-Ace at DreamHack Open Winter 2017 with Rise Nation
-Ace at ESEA Season 25: Global Challenge with Rise Nation
Ace at DreamHack Open Austin 2018 with eUnited
Trivia[edit]
- He is a former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player.
- aceu is also often jokingly referred to as the older half-brother of fellow Apex Legends player, iiTzTimmy. [10]
- Originally played under the name ace but thought it was bad for branding purposes, and changed it to aceu. [11]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Aceu Apex Legends Settings & Keybinds". Best Game Settings.
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- ↑ Twitch Commands
- ↑ aceu (2018-12-22). "seems my time is running low. gonna give myself a 400 subgoal to try and reach over the next two months. if i make it i’ll continue to fulltime stream" (in English).
- ↑ NRG Esports (2019-03-06). "NRG would like to announce the next Apex ACE up our sleeve.." (in English).
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 aceu (2021-05-14). "why i quit apex + QNA" (in English).
- ↑ NRG (2022-10-20). "Today we say farewell to @aceu" (in English).
- ↑ Sentinels (2022-11-11). "The human highlight reel is officially a Sentinel" (in English).
- ↑ NRG Esports. "Aceu Answers the Internet (Most Searched Questions)".
- ↑ NRG Esports. "Aceu Answers the Internet (Most Searched Questions)".