FPL-[C] Recap - SicK claims first win of the year
The third week of January FPL has come to a close, with former Complexity player Hunter "SicK" Mims winning the week over Ricardo "boltz" Prass; claiming the top spot after finishing last week one point behind Tarik "tarik" Celik.
The top twenty players for the third week of January are:
| Rank | Player | Points | Prize |
| 1. |  Hunter "SicK" Mims |
1,566 | $3,000 |
| 2. |  Ricardo "boltz" Prass |
1,563 | $2,000 |
| 3. |  Owen "smooya" Butterfield |
1,560 | $1,000 |
| 4. |  Josh "steel" Nissan |
1,550 | $800 |
| 5. | Matthew "no_one" Congdon |
1,547 | $700 |
| 6. | Will "dazzLe" Loafman |
1,537 | $600 |
| 7. | Victor "food" Wong |
1,535 | $500 |
| 8. | Austin "Cooper-" Abadir |
1,533 | $500 |
| 9. | Austin "crashies" Roberts |
1,528 | $450 |
| 10. | Abdo "c4Lypso" Agha |
1,527 | $450 |
| 11. |  Maxim "wippie" Shepelev |
1,524 | |
| 12. | Skyler "Relyks" Weaver |
1,516 | |
| 13. | Jonathan "Jonji" Carey |
1,514 | |
| 14. | Michael "dapr" Gulino |
1,513 | |
| 15. | Jake "Stewie2K" Yip |
1,512 | |
| 16. | Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert |
1,512 | |
| 17. | Owen "oBo" Schlatter |
1,510 | |
| 18. | Matthew "WARDELL" Yu |
1,510 | |
| 19. | Alexandre "xand" Zizi |
1,510 | |
| 20. | Tarik "tarik" Celik |
1,508 |
The full leaderboard can be found here.
Compared to last week tarik was almost inactive, narrowly finishing in the top 20 ahead of former Cloud9 teammate Timothy "autimatic" Ta after winning four out of his eight games.
This week also featured three Chaos players, with Owen "smooya" Butterfield and Josh "steel" Nissan finishing in the money while Maxim "wippie" Shepelev finished three points behind Abdo "c4Lypso" Agha.
Over in FPL-C, ETHEREAL player Austin "RenZ" Dickman finished ahead of teammate Malick "dangle" Abid, winning thirteen out of the 20 matches he played. In third place, Mike "real_bM" Desanto ended the week with an impressive seven-game winning streak, claiming an overall 88% winrate.
The top ten players were as follows:
| Rank | Player | Points | Prize |
| 1. | Austin "RenZ" Dickman |
1,084 | $1,250 |
| 2. | Malick "dangle" Abid |
1,066 | $600 |
| 3. | Mike "real_bM" Desanto |
1,062 | $300 |
| 4. | Tony "w0w" Zachary |
1,050 | $200 |
| 5. |  Stefan "Lacore" Paunovic |
1,044 | $150 |
| 6. | Dominick "JazzPimp" Dimpfel |
1,044 | |
| 7. | Alfonso "krZ" Fiorani |
1,042 | |
| 8. | Norman "contii" Yeung |
1,032 | |
| 9. | Liam "Welshy" Newhouse |
1,032 | |
| 10. | Damian "droid" Boulware |
1,030 |
The full leaderboard can be found here.
The top five players for the month of January are currently:
| Rank | Player | Points | Prize |
| 1. | Malick "dangle" Abid |
1,250 | FPL |
| 2. | Paytyn "Junior" Johnson |
1,202 | FPL |
| 3. | Ramal "Rampage" Silva |
1,180 | |
| 4. | Chris "Slash" Petersen |
1,134 | |
| 5. | Marc-Andre "NiSMO" Tayar |
1,114 |
Note: FPL slots are distrbuted at the end of the month. None of the above players have been awarded promotion yet.
The monthly leaderboard can be seen here.
dangle's continued strong performances have left him firmly in the lead, although Paytyn "Junior" Johnson has continued to close the gap, now only sitting 48 points behind. Ramal "Rampage" Silva is also in a strong position to make a bid for one of two FPL spots at the end of the month, as he is now just 22 points away from Junior.
