The Official SMITE Magazine eSports Edition

SMITE REGIONALS The only thing between the SMITE teams and the world championship is this: The top four teams from Europe “ It has finally arrived. The first ever SMITE World Championship! ” and the United States and two teams from the Wildcard Tournament. There was a $50,000 prize pool for this tournament and entrance to the SMITE World Championship went to the victors. The tournaments would be a best of three elimination style. Both tournaments would have six teams battle for their place in the world championship and only the top two would make it. For the EU tournament that was held in Cologne Germany, the six teams that attended were Cloud 9 HyperX, Aquila, Fnatic, Mortality eSports, SK Gaming, and Team SoloMid. Aquila and SK Gaming take the money and move onto the SMITE world championship. At the NA tournament, held in Atlanta Georgia, the six teams that squared off were Team Dignitas, Fat Chunks, Complexity, The Rambozos, Cognitive Red, and Cognitive Prime. Oddly enough the two Cognitive teams would take first and second place and be ready come right back to Atlanta a few months later. THE SMITE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP It has finally arrived. The first ever SMITE World Championship! This is the biggest event to ever happen to SMITE. The community has funded this from $600,000 to over 1.5 million dollars with the Odyssey god skins and ward skins. Again eight teams will come to Atlanta to clash in the battleground of the gods. There is more variety this time around though. Two NA teams, two EU teams, two Chinese teams, and two teams from South America. Representing North America are two sister teams and winners of the NA Regional Championships, Cognitive Prime and Cognitive Prime. The winners of the EU Regional Championships, Aquila and SK Gaming, will be representing Europe. The newly added China will be bringing OMGA and DID to the US. Finally the two South American teams, 404 and We Love Bacon. Friday and Saturday - 2 groups of 4 teams will participate in a round robin tournament. The top 2 from those groups advance to a single elimination Semi-Final that will begin on Saturday afternoon. There will then be a bestof-five final match on Sunday after the third place match Sunday morning. The prize-pool will be distributed amongst the SWC participants as follows: First place winners will receive 50% of the prize pool, second place will receive 20%, third place will receive 15%, fourth place will receive 10%, and fifth through eighth place will receive 1.25% of the total prize. This means that first place will receive near $1,000,000 That’s enough to make even Swagni jealous. That’s a lot of eSports! But I am sure it’s nothing compared from what is to come in 2015. If 2014 was any indication, next year will be even more explosive on the battleground of the gods! ■ Written by Tanner Schelle Contents • 29

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