Name: Kevin Lowe
Alias: banana_gun
Age: 20
Location: Waco, Texas
Team: just Cause project

Do you mind giving us a bit of background on you outside of competitive gaming?

Most the time, when I'm not playing, I'm watching TV or doing my homework. Mostly on the weekends if I'm staying at my apartment, my roommate and I will have people over and play some beer pong and smoke my hookah(shisha not weed). I try to leave Waco whenever I can, because it's so damn boring here. Only thing to do in Waco is drink, go to school and watch Baylor lose football games. If I'm not in Waco I'm either at home in Houston getting in fights with my dad or I'm in San Marcos at Texas State for the weekend doing god knows what.

So, how did you get into America's Army and playing competitively?

At first I thought AA was all about pubbing, I had no idea about competition. I was around 70 honor and was getting bored of the game. A buddy I use to play with got a hack from somewhere (I have no idea what kind it was) and he told me how to run it. I played with it for about 3 days. The first day it was fun just running around. Then after that it got boring. I took it off but those guys kept using it so I stopped playing with them. I went back and forth between AA and BF:Vietnam but decided to stick with AA after awhile. I kept pubbin' for awhile, mainly on CSAR (where I did my longest session of 30 hours and 1000kills) then joined FORCE to see what competition was like. At the time Legit was on Team-ki and asked me if I wanted to join them. I said OK because I liked playing in matches and ki was more of a competition team than FORCE. During sometime in ki, Store got an email from TWL saying I was permanently banned from a PBSS taken over a year and a half ago. TWL was the only competition site that banned me and I'm still banned today.

After the CAL season with ki, I took a few months off from playing AA to finish off my 2nd semester of school. When I came back ki had died so I was looking for a new team. I tried to help a new team out but it wasn't working out at all. Row asked me to try and join i9 so I applied. I got denied the first time but apparently they did a re-vote and I got in the second time. I played a CAL, CEVO, AGC and Summer CPL with i9. After AGC and CPL a lot of drama went on in i9 and I left to make a team with insane, killa and masta called No Said Date(nsd). That lasted about 1 season with masta leaving early on, insane and killa going inactive and Row going to play CoD4. I started hanging out on -jCp. vent after CPL a lot so when nsd died I told sTan I would sit on the bench most matches, Urban was the exception. Because I was hanging out on their vent a lot(and showed up to CPL to prove to everyone I don't hack), I had already played with them a lot so the "Recruit Process" didn't last that long. After a few weeks of being on the team, Ru1n got a new job and was working the night shift, so I got my chance to start in some matches. Since then, I've started in most matches unless I was out of town. With RaF not being able to make the Chicago LAN, I was able to start with the first -jCp. team. We ended up getting 1st place and I took home $700. Now we are in the finals for CAL and CEVO.

I would like to thank my Grandma for being my personal sponsor paying for my plane ticket and hotel/food cost for Chicago.