Kinship win NACCS FPL Cup 1 in convincing fashion
Though Kinship may be struggling thus far in ESEA MDL Season 35, they capitalized on their opportunities in NACCS FPL Cup 1 and walked away $2,000 richer. Cohesive Concepts took down ImPerium and GGPR (the best team in ESEA Advanced that isn't Yeah) en route to the runner up finish and will undoubtedly return to ESEA Main with newfound confidence, not to mention $1,000 in hand.
Cohesive Concepts got things rolling with a respectable CT side on Train, where they managed to take a slim 8-7 lead into the side switch. Kinship's defense proved much harder to break however, as the MDL side rode a flawless second half to a 16-8 victory. Connor "chop" Sullivan led the way for the victors with 21 kills, while Brennan "Lemonz" Lentz contributed 19 frags in the losing effort for Cohesive Concepts.
Defense remained a prevailing theme on Inferno as Kinship continued to batter Cohesive Concepts while they attempted to execute their T-sided plans, taking a dominant 12-3 lead into the half. chop doubled his series tally with another 21 kills in helping Kinship to the series sweep, while it was Michael "1Mikey" Massad who led Cohesive Concepts with 14 frags.
The final event standings are:
1. 
Kinship (chop, ara, Swahn, grape, naes) - $2,000
2. Cohesive Concepts (TEVO, 1Mikey, CAJUN, WMS, Lemonz) - $1,000
3-4. GGPR (lowrider, v1c, Creed, jeorgesnorts, jsfeltner)
3-4. 
RBG (gmanchew, pwny, Walco, wiz, HexT)
5-8. Rebirth (retchy, phantom, nosraC, Sneaky, XotiC)
5-8. ImPerium (Burt^, Wilky, carterJ, EllisoN, heretic)
5-8. ex-Warriors International (Hendy, walker, vein, armen, Ryze)
5-8. Iris Money Crew (Cryptic, royalG, rin, prex, xcege)
The full bracket can be found here.
The second place finish for Cohesive Concepts has resulted in the entire team joining a 19-person tie on the FPL Cup leaderboard, behind only Justin "FaNg" Coakley.
Up next in the series of FPL Cups will be our very own Dust2.us Masters FPL Cup 1, which will run from October 17-18th.
