Sunbird’s real name is Nguyen Duc Binh (born in 1996 in Dan Phuong, Ha Tay, now Hanoi).
In 8th grade, Binh played the game AOE (Age of Empires, also known in Vietnam as `Empire`) initially for entertainment and curiosity purposes.
Since 2011, Binh has appeared in the AOE community under the name Sparrow Goes to the Sun, `making waves` after online matches, making many people in the community doubt whether he is a master or just a player.
With such a `1-0-2` record, with a brutal attack style, a resilient defense, maximum pressure and perfect combination of army types, Sunbird is known as a `prodigy`.
Along with such popularity, the time when Sparrow Goes to the Sun took the university entrance exam attracted a lot of people’s attention.
In 2016, Sunshine Sparrows and their Vietnamese teammates had a dramatic `breathtaking` match with the Guangdong team, China. Despite being pressured and disadvantaged in many ways, the Vietnamese team still won a spectacular victory.
In 2019, Sunshine Sparrow won 9 AOE competition championship cups in just over 1 month.
Also this year, according to IDGConsulting statistics, Binh was recognized as the number 1 streamer in the world on the Facebook Gaming platform because in October 2019, Chim Se Go Nang set a record of having 126,086 concurrent followers.
When asked about the secret to playing AOE well, Duc Binh said he practiced every day, slowly making efforts.
`In the beginning, everyone called me a rebounding prodigy, because I was always behind and was able to bounce back to win the straight. Actually, at that time I didn’t think about whether I won or lost, I just played with emotions, with
Thinking that if he had made a name for himself so early, Duc Binh would not focus on studying, but he thinks he still needs a university degree.
`I think it’s still necessary to have a university degree, even though many people don’t use it, because a university degree is like a certificate to get you into life. Moreover, the field I study is information technology, this field is quite hot.
Currently, Sunshine Sparrow has become a professional gamer.