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Bad News Bears win ESEA Summer Cash Cup 3 over Party Astronauts

The content king dropped over 50 frags in both 2-0 sweeps as the Bad News Bears super sub.

Bad News Bears have secured their fifth ESEA Cash Cup title, this time with Tarik "tarik" Celik in place of Jonathan "Jonji" Carey, who is away on vacation. Party Astronauts finished in second, while RBG and Triumph both bowed out in the semifinals.

Triumph came back on Dust2 and forced Bad News Bears to overtime, but Jeff "RZU" Ngo's server-leading 29 kills was negated by every single player on Bad News Bears eclipsing the twenty-frag mark. Triumph ran out of gas and managed just one round in overtime.

Bad News Bears comfortably took Overpass on the back of a monster (pun intended) 17-kill T-side from tarik, more than twice what any single member of Triumph managed while defending the bombsites. Brendan "Bwills" Williams was the only player on Triumph to tally at least twenty kills in the second map, he finished with 24 frags.

Bad News Bears
2 - 0
Triumph
All maps
Bad News Bears K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Tarik 'tarik' Celik 56 - 38 +18 103.0 82.3% 1.53
United States Gabe 'Spongey' Greiner 46 - 37 +9 74.4 74.2% 1.18
United States Alan 'Shakezullah' Hardeman 39 - 35 +4 78.6 69.4% 1.13
United States Michael 'Swisher' Schmid 42 - 37 +5 73.4 67.7% 1.06
United States Peter 'ptr' Gurney 35 - 34 +1 48.5 69.4% 0.94
Triumph K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States David 'cynic' Polster 39 - 39 +0 70.5 69.4% 0.97
United States Jeff 'RZU' Ngo 41 - 45 -4 74.6 59.7% 0.95
United States Brendan 'Bwills' Williams 41 - 46 -5 66.0 61.3% 0.93
Omar '3ARK00Z' Elyyan 30 - 46 -16 64.8 69.4% 0.81
United States Tyler 'tweiss' Weiss 28 - 43 -15 62.0 61.3% 0.76

The other semifinal didn't feature overtime, but RBG and Party Astronauts played nearly every round of regulation that they could. The opening contest on Overpass went the full thirty rounds and it took a well-balanced performance from Party Astronauts to offset the efforts of Anthony "CLASIA" Kearney, who dropped 32 frags in the close loss to the back-to-back Mythic Summer Cup champions.

Party Astronauts completed the sweep on Dust2 with a strong performance from the trio of Jonathan "djay" Dallal, Gage "Infinite" Green, and Josh "PwnAlone" Pigue. The former two players each tallied 27 kills to secure their grand final berth, while the latter finished with 25. Jadan "HexT" Postma led RBG with 22 frags in the loss.

Party Astronauts
2 - 0
RBG
All maps
Party Astronauts K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Canada Jonathan 'djay' Dallal 51 - 41 +10 104.9 67.8% 1.36
United States Josh 'PwnAlone' Pigue 47 - 31 +16 74.9 76.3% 1.26
United States Gage 'Infinite' Green 44 - 38 +6 81.8 69.5% 1.13
United States Ben 'ben1337' Smith 35 - 38 -3 67.8 74.6% 1.01
United States Wesley 'viz' Harris 33 - 39 -6 54.8 72.9% 0.88
RBG K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Anthony 'CLASIA' Kearney 52 - 41 +11 98.1 67.8% 1.24
United States Jerric 'wiz' Jiang 40 - 40 +0 81.4 66.1% 1.09
Canada Jadan 'HexT' Postma 36 - 39 -3 53.2 62.7% 0.85
United States Connor 'chop' Sullivan 28 - 43 -15 59.3 74.6% 0.84
Canada Colby 'Walco' Walsh 31 - 47 -16 64.8 59.3% 0.80

Truthfully the semifinals were more highly contested than the grand final itself. Bad News Bears secured 11-4 and 12-3 halftime leads on Dust2 and Nuke, respectively, while tarik turned in a pair of 26-frag performances to secure his weekend hosts $2,000 worth of gas money to get to Fragadelphia 15.

Ben "ben1337" Smith led the way on Dust2 and PwnAlone top fragged on Nuke, while both players finished with 32 kills total in the series loss for Party Astronauts.

Bad News Bears
2 - 0
Party Astronauts
All maps
Bad News Bears K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Tarik 'tarik' Celik 52 - 27 +25 98.9 85.7% 1.58
United States Michael 'Swisher' Schmid 37 - 32 +5 91.5 79.6% 1.30
United States Peter 'ptr' Gurney 36 - 24 +12 73.4 75.5% 1.21
United States Alan 'Shakezullah' Hardeman 29 - 28 +1 60.4 79.6% 1.07
United States Gabe 'Spongey' Greiner 25 - 22 +3 58.9 75.5% 1.04
Party Astronauts K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Josh 'PwnAlone' Pigue 32 - 33 -1 77.0 63.3% 1.01
United States Ben 'ben1337' Smith 32 - 35 -3 67.3 65.3% 0.95
United States Gage 'Infinite' Green 22 - 36 -14 59.2 59.2% 0.76
United States Wesley 'viz' Harris 23 - 38 -15 51.8 67.3% 0.74
Canada Jonathan 'djay' Dallal 24 - 38 -14 57.0 65.3% 0.73

The final standings for ESEA Summer 2021 Cash Cup 3 are:

1. United States Bad News Bears - $2,000 of travel support for Fragadelphia 15
2. United States Party Astronauts
3-4. United States RBG
3-4. United States Triumph

The Cash Cup this coming weekend will feature the same format, the same stakes, and the same ticket to Fragadelphia 15 for the winner.

Sign-up for Fragadelphia 15 is open and available here. Both Bad News Bears and Party Astronauts are currently slated to attend.

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July 26, 2021 06:30PM
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