News Round-Up
BASTET GETS A MAKEOVER AND
TYR TAKES TO THE SEAS!
At the beginning of the month Bastet finally got the
community’s request answered as Bastet finally got her
visual makeover, coming out a much finer feline as well
as some few changes to her kit. Punce is now much more
fluent and responsive, her DoT (Damage over Time) skill
increased from a 45 to 70 degree cone as well as the cast
time for her long range slow getting reduced in csst time.
Her final change was a new hit progression of 1/0.7/1.3.
Tyr gets his gem skin and after some community
feedback on what to put in his voice pack (making an
obvious spoiler for the skin to come), he now comes in
the form of a pirate, with a classical patched eye and
hooked hand. To make up for the incoming evilness of
Tyr’s pirate form, Bakasura’s Feaster Bunny skin is back
on sale until the 23rd of April. The horrifying cuteness
into disaster makes me want to “ABANDON SHIP!” As
PrivaTyr would say.
INAUGURAL WORLD
CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON
The new season of Smite eSports was recently announced
and will be culminating with a World Championship
event in Atlanta, Georgia in January 2015. Teams will
begin the regional qualifier process in May 2014. Each
region will have two teams qualify from the weekly
HiRez events and two others will have a chance to qualify
through a wildcard event in September 2014. Regional
championships will occur near the end of 2014 in both
Europe and North America. The world championships
will showcase Smite talent from both of these regions and
China in what HiRez promises to be the biggest event to
date.
COMMUNITY TOURNAMENTS
In addition to the exciting offerings from HiRez this year,
Smite eSports has a large community run tournament
pool to choose from. Teams can face off in conquest in the
regular Tuesday Parabellum eSports tournament series. If
you don’t have a full team to play with but would like
to try competitive Smite, Tiermonster hosts weekly pick
up group tournaments. The Code Green tournaments
are 5v5 conquest map play. Code Black tournaments
alternate between the arena and assault maps. Tiermonster
events are held every weekend. Are you a joust 3v3 fan?
Smitetube offers a 3v3 tournament every Wednesday. All
community run tournaments have a prize pool of gems
up for grabs and are open to all experience levels.
E-SPORTS
ALIENWEAR ARENA TOURNAMENTS
Alienwear has hosted their second arena tournament with
a prize purse of ten thousand dollars. The tournament
began on April 19th and will continue again the weekend
of April 26-27. The tournament is utilizing a 64 team
bracket. The top three teams will earn a portion of the
ten thousand dollar prize pool while teams placing fourth
through either will earn gems.
Issue 1 • May 2014
23 • GameOn Smite Community Magazine