FPL-[C] Recap - MarKE strikes back; curry debuts with second place finish
The first FPL week of December has come to an end, seeing Edgar "MarKE" Maldonado top the board for the first time since mid-September as a result of winning 18 of his 25 matches.
The top twenty players for the first week of December are:
| Rank | Player | Points | Prize |
| 1. |  Edgar "MarKE" Maldonado |
1,592 | $3,000 |
| 2. |  Rahul "curry" Nemani |
1,584 | $2,000 |
| 3. | Matthew "no_one" Congdon |
1,561 | $1,000 |
| 4. |  Gustavo "yel" Knittel |
1,556 | $800 |
| 5. | Leonardo "Laski" Arroyo |
1,546 | $700 |
| 6. |  Damian "daps" Steele |
1,539 | $600 |
| 7. | Sam "s0m" Oh |
1,537 | $500 |
| 8. | Victor "food" Wong |
1,536 | $500 |
| 9. | Cameron "cam" Kern |
1,532 | $450 |
| 10. | Hunter "SicK" Mims |
1,529 | $450 |
| 11. | Austin "Cooper-" Abadir |
1,524 | |
| 12. | Anthony "vanity" Malaspina |
1,520 | |
| 13. | Kaleb "moose" Jayne |
1,520 | |
| 14. | Joshua "steel" Nissan |
1,518 | |
| 15. | Yassine "Subroza" Taoufik |
1,514 | |
| 16. | Shahzeb "ShahZaM" Khan |
1,514 | |
| 17. | Matthew "WARDELL" Yu |
1,511 | |
| 18. | Pujan "FNS" Mehta |
1,508 | |
| 19. | Michael "dapr" Gulino |
1,508 | |
| 20. | Abdo "c4Lypso" Agha |
1,508 |
The leaderboard for the above week can be found here.
Exactly half of last week's top twenty players returned to scatter themselves among the table this time around, with Damian "daps" Steele notably fighting his way up from a 20th place finish at the end of November into sixth.
Rahul "curry" Nemani grabbed himself second place in his debut FPL week, having only secured promotion from FPL-C at the end of November. Frequent flier Matthew "no_one" Congdon was also present near the top end, edging out a third place spot over Gustavo "yeL" Knittel by five points.
Meanwhile, in FPL-C, Danny "cxzi" Strzelczyk kicked off December with a win of his own.
The top ten players from the past week are as follows:
| Rank | Player | Points | Prize |
| 1. | Danny "cxzi" Strzelczyk |
1,118 | $1,250 |
| 2. | David "Sneaky" Polster |
1,110 | $600 |
| 3. | Koby "kobruh" Higgs |
1,096 | $300 |
| 4. | Donovan "zNf" Froid |
1,094 | $200 |
| 5. | Bobby "stamina" Eitrem |
1,086 | $150 |
| 6. | Shawn "Magowi" O'Malley |
1,078 | |
| 7. | Adam "Ange" Milian |
1,072 | |
| 8. | Amgalan "genghsta" Nemekhbayar |
1,070 | |
| 9. | Josh "JoshRT" Lee |
1,070 | |
| 10. | Jet "jet-" Gao |
1,066 |
The full leaderboard can be seen here.
Also among the top ten was Rebirth's Bobby "stamina" Eitrem and Adam "Ange" Milian, with the latter player being the sole MDL representative of the bunch. The week also saw Donovan "zNf" Froid earn a fourth place finish, while Koby "kobruh" Higgs retained his third place position from last week to once again place in the money.
One of November's weekly winners, Jet "jet-" Gao, eked into tenth as a result of winning just over half of the 40 matches he played, pulling ahead of Peter "Asuna" Mazuryk by four points.
