FPL[-C] Recap - MarKE and cxzi hold top spots
Edgar "MarKE" Maldonado and Danny "cxzi" Strzelczyk secured the top spots in their respective ladders this past week, ascending well beyond their results from the first week of the month.
The top 20 players for the second week of September are:
| Rank | Player | Points | Prize |
| 1. |  Edgar "MarKE" Maldonado |
1,571 | $3,000 |
| 2. |  Gustavo "yel" Knittel |
1,554 | $2,000 |
| 3. |  Matthew "no_one" Congdon |
1,551 | $1,000 |
| 4. | Alexandre "xand" Zizi |
1,545 | $800 |
| 5. | Joshua "jdm64" Marzano |
1,542 | $700 |
| 6. | Jake "Stewie2K" Yip |
1,540 | $600 |
| 7. | Bruno "bit" Lima |
1,532 | $500 |
| 8. | Sam "s0m" Oh |
1,532 | $500 |
| 9. |  Maxim "wippie" Shepelev |
1,531 | $450 |
| 10. | Owen "oBo" Schlatter |
1,530 | $450 |
| 11. | Anthony "vanity" Malaspina |
1,529 | |
| 12. | Noah "Nifty" Francis |
1,527 | |
| 13. | Ian "motm" Hardy |
1,527 | |
| 14. | Cameron "hydrex" Kern |
1,526 | |
| 15. | Shahzeb "ShahZaM" Khan |
1,523 | |
| 16. |  Matthew "WARDELL" Yu |
1,519 | |
| 17. | Leonardo "leo_druNky" Oliveira |
1,512 | |
| 18. | Austin "Cooper-" Abadir |
1,511 | |
| 19. | Jonathan "Jonji" Carey |
1,510 | |
| 20. | Kaitlin "Katie" Boop |
1,510 |
The full leaderboard is available here.
MarKE finished 17 points ahead of ex-Luminosity's Gustavo "yel" Knittel on the back of winning 65 percent of his 20 matches played. The placing allowed for him to claim the number one spot for September thus far, overtaking both Maxim "wippie" Shepelev and fellow eUnited member Austin "Cooper-" Abadir.
On the bottom half of the board Leonardo "leo_druNky" Oliveira of Sharks managed to finish in seventeenth with just two matches played.
The overall standings for the month of September thus far are:
| Rank | Player | Points |
| 1. | Edgar "MarKE" Maldonado |
1,844 |
| 2. | Maxim "wippie" Shepelev |
1,770 |
| 3. | Joshua "steel" Nissan |
1,709 |
| 4. | Matthew "no_one" Congdon |
1,694 |
| 5. | Austin "Cooper-" Abadir |
1,685 |
The full September leaderboard is available here.
The same five players have remained at the summit of September's overall rankings and look to remain there, with Cooper- almost 50 points away from the next closest participant in new Singularity member Josh "PwnAlone" Pigue.
On the FPL-C side of things, cxzi came in hot before his explosive performance at Fragadelphia 13, topping the charts to bring him one step closer to qualifying for FPL. Finishing just behind cxzi was his Fragadelphia teammate Adam "Ange" Milian.
The top ten FPL-C players of the second week of September are:
| Rank | Player | Points | Prize |
| 1. | Danny "cxzi" Strzelczyk |
1,128 | $1,250 |
| 2. | Adam "Ange" Milian |
1,098 | $600 |
| 3. |  Stefan "Lacore" Paunovic |
1,094 | $300 |
| 4. | Austin "RenZ" Dickman |
1,084 | $200 |
| 5. | Caleb "opportunity" Davis |
1,080 | $150 |
| 6. | Chris "Slash" Petersen |
1,064 | |
| 7. | Austin "AAustiN" Urb |
1,056 | |
| 8. | Noah "ULTRA" Giesbrecht |
1,056 | |
| 9. | Bobby "stamina" Eitrem |
1,052 | |
| 10. | David "Sneaky" Polster |
1,052 |
The full leaderboard can be seen here.
We will have to see whether or not MarKE and cxzi can hold their ground in the weeks of FPL and FPL-C to come, with week three already underway.
