Shakezullah and friends are off to a good start in the FPL sweepstakes

Triumph win Mythic League FPL Cup 1

After a string of rough showings, Shakezullah and co. got back on the right track this weekend.

After bowing out of DreamHack Open Summer and ESL One Cologne winless and starting ESL Pro League Season 12 with an 0-3 record, Triumph got a much needed morale boost from a successful campaign in Mythic League FPL Cup 1.

A number of noteworthy teams exited the event long before the semifinals, most notably Eclipse, Big Chillin, and ex-Warriors International at the hands of 4-0 ESEA Main side Cohesive Concepts. Other teams that lost in the quarterfinals were Rise, Third Impact, and New England Whalers.

Triumph and Cloud9 traded maps in the first semifinal with each side taking their own map pick before Triumph managed to steal away the decider in a thirty-round contest on Train. In that decider it was Alan "Shakezullah" Hardeman that led his troops by example, posting 31 frags to power his team through to the grand final. Ricky "floppy" Kemery led Cloud9 with 23 kills in the loss.

Cloud9
1 - 2
Triumph
All maps
Cloud9 K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Ricky 'floppy' Kemery 55 - 55 +0 83.5 73.1% 1.11
Aran 'Sonic' Groesbeek 57 - 57 +0 83.2 75.6% 1.11
United States Josh 'oSee' Ohm 56 - 46 +10 66.7 73.1% 1.07
United States Ian 'motm' Hardy 53 - 51 +2 67.9 70.5% 1.06
Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou 48 - 55 -7 73.1 78.2% 1.04
Triumph K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Paytyn 'junior' Johnson 61 - 46 +15 76.8 74.4% 1.19
Canada Kaleb 'moose' Jayne 60 - 50 +10 83.1 74.4% 1.15
United States Alan 'Shakezullah' Hardeman 54 - 54 +0 76.7 65.4% 1.10
Canada Erik 'penny' Penny 46 - 55 -9 62.4 71.8% 0.93
United States Ryan 'ryann' Welsh 39 - 66 -27 65.9 61.5% 0.79

At first it looked like Cohesive Concepts' miracle run could continue as they managed to steal away ex-Recon 5's map pick of Overpass in overtime after ex-Recon 5 collapsed and failed to convert seven match points. But it wasn't meant to be as Dominick "JazzPimp" Dimpfel came alive with 60 kills on the final two maps to propel ex-Recon 5 onward and end Cohesive Concepts' tournament one game short of a cash payout.

ex-Recon 5
2 - 1
Cohesive Concepts
All maps
ex-Recon 5 K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Dominick 'JazzPimp' Dimpfel 92 - 66 +26 101.4 82.4% 1.41
Canada Justin 'FaNg' Coakley 75 - 66 +9 94.2 79.1% 1.26
United States Jet 'jet-' Gao 68 - 55 +13 72.5 80.2% 1.23
United States Jacob 'FugLy' Medina 67 - 50 +17 73.0 78.0% 1.18
United States Soham 'valens' Chowdhury 45 - 63 -18 65.2 68.1% 0.88
Cohesive Concepts K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Brennan 'Lemonz' Lentz 65 - 60 +5 76.8 70.3% 1.10
United States Andrew 'CAJUN' Guidroz 69 - 72 -3 77.4 69.2% 1.01
United States William 'WMS' Stack 61 - 69 -8 76.1 69.2% 1.01
United States Michael '1Mikey' Massad 56 - 78 -22 72.7 63.7% 0.87
United States Travis 'TEVO' Welch 48 - 70 -22 57.7 62.6% 0.77

For the second match in a row ex-Recon 5 conceded Overpass to their opponent in overtime, though this time they would not come back. Paytyn "junior" Johnson and Kaleb "moose" Jayne combined for over one hundred kills to carry Triumph over the finish line and take home the cash prize and the opening tournament win in the series of six FPL Cups scheduled for the next two months.

Triumph
2 - 0
ex-Recon 5
All maps
Triumph K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Paytyn 'junior' Johnson 51 - 32 +19 85.3 78.0% 1.41
Canada Kaleb 'moose' Jayne 50 - 37 +13 92.4 76.3% 1.33
Canada Erik 'penny' Penny 49 - 38 +11 94.4 78.0% 1.28
United States Ryan 'ryann' Welsh 40 - 39 +1 70.6 67.8% 1.03
United States Alan 'Shakezullah' Hardeman 29 - 38 -9 48.8 76.3% 0.91
ex-Recon 5 K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Canada Justin 'FaNg' Coakley 38 - 42 -4 72.5 66.1% 0.98
United States Dominick 'JazzPimp' Dimpfel 39 - 47 -8 73.7 66.1% 0.95
United States Jet 'jet-' Gao 39 - 41 -2 57.1 66.1% 0.94
United States Jacob 'FugLy' Medina 39 - 43 -4 76.2 66.1% 0.94
United States Soham 'valens' Chowdhury 28 - 47 -19 59.9 55.9% 0.65

The final standings for Mythic League FPL Cup 1 are:

1.     United States Triumph (Shakezullah, junior, moose, penny, ryann) - $3,000
2.     United States ex-Recon 5 (JazzPimp, jet, valens, FugLy, FaNg) - $1,000
3-4. United States Cloud9 (JT, motm, floppy, oSee, Sonic)
3-4. United States Cohesive Concepts (1Mikey, WMS, Lemonz, TEVO, CAJUN)

Next up in the tournament series is the WINNERS League FPL Cup that will take place from September 26-27th.

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September 14, 2020 11:42AM
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Surprised ex-Recon 5 did that well, pretty impressive

Glad to see a new face (for me) in a top 4 as well!
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