kaboose brought the trophy home for J Money Crew with a massive performance on Nuke in the grand finals

J Money Crew win Fragadelphia 13

WARDELL shows that he's still got it alongside former Bee's Money Crew teammates.

The three-day Fragadelphia 13 LAN has come to an end with J Money Crew sweeping New Identity in the best-of-five grand final, with the team fighting through tense matches in the championship bracket to take the lion’s share of the $27,500 prize pool.

After reaching playoffs on Saturday, the first few rounds of bracket play concluded without many upsets, with Advanced squad Triumph notably falling to Intermediate team The Gaming Stadium 2-1. Continuing on through the bracket, Thunder Logic’s run was cut short by Monstars after a dominant 16-5 victory on Nuke for the MDL squad. Not long after, Monstars were sent down to the lower bracket after an incredibly close series against J Money Crew, with Jason "neptune" Tran's side edging out a 2-1 victory.

On the other side of the bracket, New Identity made quick work of heX, picking up a close 16-12 win on Nuke before battering them 16-2 on Overpass. 

A preview of the final that we would soon see between New Identity and J Money Crew came early in the upper bracket finals, with the New Identity gang performing a reverse-sweep to recover their 16-8 Dust2 loss. A 16-6 win on Mirage followed by a 16-9 victory on Nuke in favor of New Identity locked their place in the finals.

New Identity
2 - 1
J Money Crew
All maps
New Identity K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Collin 'wrath' McSweegan 57 - 44 +13 82.9 76.1% 1.23
United States Sebastian 'seb' Bucki 48 - 46 +2 85.6 73.2% 1.15
United States Michael 'dapr' Gulino 50 - 42 +8 72.5 70.4% 1.12
United States Will 'dazzLe' Loafman 49 - 49 +0 78.4 62.0% 1.09
United States Skyler 'Relyks' Weaver 43 - 41 +2 66.3 70.4% 1.05
J Money Crew K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Canada Matthew 'WARDELL' Yu 54 - 46 +8 78.9 70.4% 1.17
United States Jake 'kaboose' McDonald 51 - 52 -1 76.1 66.2% 0.98
United States Leonardo 'Laski' Arroyo 44 - 47 -3 65.1 66.2% 0.88
United States Jason 'neptune' Tran 39 - 51 -12 63.0 54.9% 0.80
United States Phong 'bee' Nguyen 34 - 51 -17 62.4 64.8% 0.78

With that result, J Money Crew and the Monstars would meet once again in the consolidation final to see who would face New Identity for the grand prize. With their tournament lives on the line, the matchup saw less contention than the first as a 2-0 win for Matthew "WARDELL" Yu and co. left more to be desired from the Monstars and promised yet another rematch, this time for the $16,500 first-place prize.

J Money Crew
2 - 0
Monstars
All maps
J Money Crew K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Jason 'neptune' Tran 46 - 37 +9 83.2 82.5% 1.29
Canada Matthew 'WARDELL' Yu 47 - 31 +16 83.0 70.2% 1.27
United States Leonardo 'Laski' Arroyo 41 - 36 +5 76.4 73.7% 1.10
United States Jake 'kaboose' McDonald 40 - 40 +0 73.7 82.5% 1.10
United States Phong 'bee' Nguyen 32 - 39 -7 75.9 71.9% 1.03
Monstars K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Ethan 'reck' Serrano 42 - 43 -1 86.4 77.2% 1.19
United States Dylan 'RIKO' Sabin-Arnce 44 - 37 +7 77.6 71.9% 1.12
United States Ian 'tex' Botsch 47 - 43 +4 75.5 68.4% 1.04
United States Shawn 'witmer' Taylor 21 - 42 -21 63.9 68.4% 0.78
United States Michael 'Swisher' Schmid 29 - 42 -13 56.7 57.9% 0.69

Glancing back at the upper bracket final, most would have pinned New Identity as the favorites to take the grudge match with confidence, but it was J Money Crew instead who would exact revenge and take home the title of champion.

New Identity’s one map advantage did very little to help matters, with the Bee’s Money Crew-Esque mix simply overwhelming the MDL team, not allowing even one map to come through.

The series started off poorly for New Identity, with the squad dropping Dust2 16-9. Following this, New Identity  put on a slightly better showing on Mirage, however J Money Crew managed to pull ahead and claim the map 16-13. With just one map separating his team from victory, Jake "kaboose" McDonald put on a master-class performance on Nuke, scoring 137.3 ADR and a 2.39 HLTV rating. He, alongside the rest of JMC dominated on T-side, winning the half 11-4 before closing out the map 16-5.

New Identity
1 - 3
J Money Crew
All maps
New Identity K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Collin 'wrath' McSweegan 56 - 57 -1 79.5 66.7% 1.00
United States Michael 'dapr' Gulino 47 - 53 -6 65.9 65.3% 0.93
United States Sebastian 'seb' Bucki 35 - 53 -18 61.7 66.7% 0.86
United States Skyler 'Relyks' Weaver 44 - 58 -14 70.7 58.7% 0.85
United States Will 'dazzLe' Loafman 38 - 61 -23 71.0 58.7% 0.77
J Money Crew K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Jake 'kaboose' McDonald 71 - 45 +26 95.1 77.3% 1.45
United States Jason 'neptune' Tran 70 - 46 +24 98.9 77.3% 1.40
Canada Matthew 'WARDELL' Yu 55 - 43 +12 78.5 77.3% 1.26
United States Phong 'bee' Nguyen 54 - 44 +10 69.5 70.7% 1.13
United States Leonardo 'Laski' Arroyo 31 - 43 -12 50.1 68.0% 0.80

The top 18 for Fragadelphia 13 are:

1st. United States J Money Crew (neptune, Laski, bee, kaboose, WARDELL} — $16,500
2nd. United States New Identity (seb, Relyks, wrath, dazzLe, dapr) — $7,000
3rd. United States Monstars (tex, Swisher, ReckMONSTER, witmer, RIKO) — $2,750
4th. United States Thunder Logic (cxzi, sfX, vSa, Oderus, Ange) — $1,250
5-6th United States Rebirth
5-6th. United States heX
7-8th. United States Big Rods
7-8th. Canada The Gaming Stadium
9-12th. United States nTice
9-12th. United States Mount Olympus
9-12th. United States idc go next
9-12th. United States Precision
13-16th. United States Kinesis
13-16th. United States Shyboiz
13-16th. United States Stomps Money Crew
13-16th. United States No Namers
17-18th. United States ClearVision
17-18th. United States Triumph

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