The AWPs came alive in the grand final for both Extra Salt and Party Astronauts

Extra Salt dispatch Party Astronauts to win ESEA Summer Cash Cup 7

A three-map slugfest went the Salters way following a 99 round series.

As the sun sets on summer, the final ESEA Cash Cup of the season has came to a close last weekend with Extra Salt claiming their first Cash Cup title since Winter Cash Cup 6 in February with a 2-1 win over Party Astronauts. Levitate swept Eros 2-0 to secure the final spot on the podium. 

A lack of ESEA Premier rosters gave a number of ESEA Advanced sides a chance to make a run deeper into the Cash Cup than previous iterations of the event. Triumph forfeited their initial match, but no other Premier squads lost to lower division competition until the third place match. Detonate bowed out after an overtime loss to Counter Nature, and Big Chillin were eliminated by Party Astronauts, but not before eliminating Brazen.

The complete bracket can be found here.

Saad "Pluto" Siraj topped the scoreboard for his side in a cinderella semifinal appearance for Levitate, finishing the series with 42 frags in the loss. Both Josh "oSee" Ohm and Johnny "JT" Theodosiou bested that total with 47 and 45 kills, respectively.

Extra Salt
2 - 0
Levitate
All maps
Extra Salt K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Josh 'oSee' Ohm 47 - 27 +20 104.1 89.6% 1.60
Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou 45 - 25 +20 96.1 83.3% 1.57
Aran 'Sonic' Groesbeek 40 - 26 +14 75.0 81.2% 1.29
Mexico Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado 37 - 29 +8 82.9 79.2% 1.29
Canada Justin 'FaNg' Coakley 32 - 30 +2 78.9 81.2% 1.17
Levitate K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Saad 'Pluto' Siraj 42 - 37 +5 90.6 56.2% 1.16
United States Mohamed 'Penguin' Algadir 32 - 42 -10 69.5 70.8% 0.84
Emrecan 'EMSTAR' Çalışkan 25 - 43 -18 69.9 56.2% 0.71
United States Drew 'Drewtheshrew' Lamb 19 - 37 -18 55.9 56.2% 0.65
United States Devin 'AtomiK' Ferrell 19 - 42 -23 57.8 41.7% 0.53

In the other semifinal Josh "PwnAlone" Pigue ran amok for Party Astronauts. He finished over ten kills ahead of every player on Eros in a decisive win on Inferno, then passed the torch to David "cynic" Polster, who replicated the accomplishment on Nuke. Jason "Jason" Garcia led Eros with 32 kills in the series loss.

Eros
0 - 2
Party Astronauts
All maps
Eros K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Matthew 'Cryptic' Whitmore 28 - 35 -7 72.2 73.3% 0.93
United States Jason 'jason' Garcia 32 - 37 -5 79.9 60.0% 0.90
Canada Ahmed 'ayy' Mahmoud 27 - 37 -10 54.4 53.3% 0.70
United States Umar 'Umar' Qaiser 20 - 38 -18 64.4 51.1% 0.63
Brazil Israel 'LEARSI' Vargas 17 - 38 -21 59.3 48.9% 0.53
Party Astronauts K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Josh 'PwnAlone' Pigue 51 - 24 +27 92.6 80.0% 1.67
United States David 'cynic' Polster 42 - 25 +17 92.5 77.8% 1.40
United States Gage 'Infinite' Green 32 - 24 +8 97.9 80.0% 1.37
Canada Jonathan 'djay' Dallal 31 - 26 +5 74.4 80.0% 1.21
United States Ben 'ben1337' Smith 28 - 25 +3 71.1 84.4% 1.15

Levitate, who currently sit at 10-4 in ESEA Advanced, picked up a huge morale-boosting win  and $2,000 in straight maps against ESEA Premier opposition, Eros. Emrecan "EMSTAR" Çalışkan tallied 52 kills for the victors, while Matthew "Cryptic" Whitmore led Eros with 49 frags in the loss.

Levitate
2 - 0
Eros
All maps
Levitate K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Saad 'Pluto' Siraj 49 - 33 +16 89.5 78.2% 1.32
Emrecan 'EMSTAR' Çalışkan 52 - 42 +10 103.8 69.1% 1.30
United States Devin 'AtomiK' Ferrell 44 - 35 +9 75.7 72.7% 1.24
United States Mohamed 'Penguin' Algadir 40 - 36 +4 77.6 67.3% 1.10
United States Drew 'Drewtheshrew' Lamb 27 - 41 -14 67.3 70.9% 0.94
Eros K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Matthew 'Cryptic' Whitmore 49 - 42 +7 101.3 63.6% 1.27
Brazil Israel 'LEARSI' Vargas 40 - 41 -1 80.6 67.3% 1.07
United States Jason 'jason' Garcia 32 - 40 -8 59.0 72.7% 0.97
United States Umar 'Umar' Qaiser 36 - 48 -12 68.7 65.5% 0.88
Canada Ahmed 'ayy' Mahmoud 29 - 42 -13 58.1 67.3% 0.75

The AWPs dominated a drawn-out, closely-contested reverse sweep for Extra Salt in the grand final. Every map went a minimum of thirty rounds, with the latter two requiring overtime for Extra Salt to dispatch their Premier foes. oSee finished the series with a server-high 79 kills, closely followed by PwnAlone who had 76 frags and led the way with 35 of those frags on the sniper rifle.

Extra Salt
2 - 1
Party Astronauts
All maps
Extra Salt K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Josh 'oSee' Ohm 79 - 58 +21 80.1 75.8% 1.20
Aran 'Sonic' Groesbeek 71 - 70 +1 79.5 74.7% 1.13
Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou 65 - 73 -8 74.9 75.8% 1.04
Mexico Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado 62 - 66 -4 72.1 67.7% 1.01
Canada Justin 'FaNg' Coakley 66 - 68 -2 68.8 68.7% 0.97
Party Astronauts K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Josh 'PwnAlone' Pigue 76 - 65 +11 81.0 75.8% 1.20
United States Gage 'Infinite' Green 73 - 68 +5 75.6 72.7% 1.05
United States David 'cynic' Polster 66 - 70 -4 74.5 66.7% 1.01
United States Ben 'ben1337' Smith 55 - 70 -15 64.7 66.7% 0.93
Canada Jonathan 'djay' Dallal 62 - 72 -10 73.0 62.6% 0.91

The final standings for ESEA Summer Cash Cup 7 are:

1. Extra Salt - $9,000
2. United States Party Astronauts - $4,000
3. United States Levitate - $2,000
4. United States Eros
5-8. United States X13
5-8. United States Counter Nature
5-8. Deman
5-8. United States Big Chillin

ESEA Autumn Cash Cup 1 is scheduled to take place this weekend, September 25-26th. Interested teams can register here.

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