FPL Recap - Cooper- cops his first FPL win
The fourth FPL week in February has concluded, with Austin "Cooper-" Abadir taking first place. It was a fairly close win, only scoring 14 more points than the player in second place. The previous week's winner, Maxim "wippie" Shepelev still placed highly, taking third place overall.
Here are the top 20 players for the week of the 19th:
| Rank | Player | Points | Prize |
| 1. |  Austin "Cooper-" Abadir |
220 | $3000 |
| 2. | Anthony "vanity" Malaspina |
206 | $2000 |
| 3. |  Maxim "wippie" Shepelev |
192 | $1000 |
| 4. |  Edgar "MarKE" Maldonado |
190 | $800 |
| 5. | Matthew "no_one" Congdon |
176 | $700 |
| 6. | Cameron "hydrex" Kern |
168 | $600 |
| 7. | Josh "jdm64" Marzano |
160 | $500 |
| 8. |  Dominic "Domsterr" Sampaio |
158 | $500 |
| 9. | Victor "food" Wong |
154 | $450 |
| 10. | Will "dazzLe" Loafman |
148 | $450 |
| 11. | Sam "s0m" Oh |
148 | |
| 12. | Samuel "SileNt" Portillo |
148 | |
| 13. | Owen "oBo" Schlatter |
140 | |
| 14. | Leonardo "Laski" Arroyo |
134 | |
| 15. | Noah "Nifty" Francis |
128 | |
| 16. |  Kaleb "moose" Jayne |
124 | |
| 17. | Rhys "Fadey" Armstrong |
122 | |
| 18. | Jonathan "Jonji" Carey |
120 | |
| 19. | Jeff "RZU" Ngo |
116 | |
| 20. |  Vito "kNgV-" Giuseppe |
114 |
The most represented teams this week were eUnited, Envy, and Denial. Interestingly, all five players on eUnited placed in the top 20 this week. An interesting individual name this week was Vito "kNgV-" Giuseppe, whose INTZ has not had an FPL representative in the top 20 since the week of January 22nd.
Other notable names were Jeff "RZU" Ngo, who has been standing in for Bad News Bears, and Jonathan "Jonji" Carey, who has been playing in the Advanced division with The Quest and recently qualified for the ECS Season 7 North America Challenger Cup.
The full standings for the week of the 19th can be found on the FACEIT website.
February's FPL Challenger has concluded, with four weeks of winners, including two weeks of the new increased prize pool. This has resulted in Amgalan "genghsta" Nemekhbayar and Malick "dangle" Abid being promoted to FPL.
Here are the top five players from each of the four weeks starting with the 1st:
| Rank | Player | Points | Prize |
| 1. | Malick "dangle" Abid |
1132 | $250 |
| 2. | Brandon "BOOBIE" Roberts |
1092 | $200 |
| 3. | Justin "FaNg-JC-" Coakley |
1066 | $150 |
| 4. | Damian "droid" Boulware |
1060 | $100 |
| 5. | Jonathan "djay" Dallal |
1050 | $50 |
Then the week of the 8th:
| Rank | Player | Points | Prize |
| 1. | Adrian "Gonnak" Arguello |
1030 | $250 |
| 2. | Yan "PRDTR" Davtian |
1022 | $200 |
| 3. | Justin "jerk" Milani |
1020 | $41.6 |
| 4. | Austin "RenZ" Dickman |
1020 | $41.6 |
| 5. |  Shakhan "beaverknight" Kadyrbekov |
1020 | $41.6 |
| 6. | Amgalan "genghsta" Nemekhbayar |
1020 | $41.6 |
| 7. | Eric "Eric" W. |
1020 | $41.6 |
| 8. | Michael "Ayumi" Nguyen |
1020 | $41.6 |
The week of the 16th:
| Rank | Player | Points | Prize |
| 1. | Tyler "tweiss" Weiss |
1130 | $1250 |
| 2. | Amgalan "genghsta" Nemekhbayar |
1098 | $600 |
| 3. | Blake "Blakers" Reynolds |
1078 | $300 |
| 4. | Felipe "pavel" Costa |
1076 | $200 |
| 5. | Justin "FaNg-JC-" Coakley |
1070 | $150 |
and finally the week of the 23rd:
| Rank | Player | Points | Prize |
| 1. | Eric "Eric" W. |
1116 | $1250 |
| 2. | Michael "orbit" Faulkner |
1102 | $600 |
| 3. | Amgalan "genghsta" Nemekhbayar |
1074 | $300 |
| 4. | Shakhan "beaverknight" Kadyrbekov |
1072 | $200 |
| 5. | swafer |
1060 | $150 |
Here are the top 15 players from the whole month of February:
| Rank | Player | Points | Prize |
| 1. | Amgalan "genghsta" Nemekhbayar |
1190 | FPL |
| 2. | Malick "dangle" Abid |
1188 | FPL |
| 3. | Justin "FaNg-JC-" Coakley |
1172 | 20000 FP |
| 4. | Eric "Eric" W. |
1154 | 15000 FP |
| 5. | Michael "orbit" Faulkner |
1150 | 10000 FP |
| 6. | Justin "jerk" Milani |
1136 | 8000 FP |
| 7. | Shakhan "beaverknight" Kadyrbekov |
1134 | 7000 FP |
| 8. | Tyler "tweiss" Weiss |
1122 | 5000 FP |
| 9. | swafer |
1122 | 5000 FP |
| 10. | Brandon "BOOBIE" Roberts |
1116 | 5000 FP |
| 11. | Shawn "Magowi" O'Malley |
1102 | 5000 FP |
| 12. | Nolan "bite" Hunstad |
1094 | 5000 FP |
| 13. | Damian "droid" Boulware |
1094 | 4000 FP |
| 14. | Alfonso "krZ" Fiorani |
1082 | 4000 FP |
| 15. | Felipe "pavel" Costa |
1074 | 4000 FP |
The first week of March has already begun, with two more FPL spots up for grabs at end of the month.
