The Official SMITE Magazine Issue 1 | Page 31

eSports looking to be a bad situation in their favor, and Allied managed to redeem his initial death with a double killl. C9 responded with another kill in the solo lane followed by taking the tier one tower. Despite the loss of the tower, Snipe pulled ahead in gold after taking an uncontested Gold Fury. The rest of the match would prove to be similarly exciting as the first six minutes were. The game remained fairly even with C9 keeping a slight lead until around the twenty minute mark. At that point, Snipe had several unsuccessful pushes up mid that led to C9 taking the Fire Giant at twenty-two minutes. C9 pressed Issue 1 • May 2014 their advantage, took the last of Shing’s Nemesis combined with Snipe’s towers, the left phoenix, the healing from Hel and Guan and then rushed the base and Yu. the destroyed the Titan. In the second major matchup of In the final match of this series, C9 the day, third seed SK Gaming chose the same lineup that won faced off against second seed them the second match while Team Dignitas. SK team captain Snipe saw the return of most Proxyqq bantered with Team of the first game roster. Feaster Dignitas captain Lassiz before Bunny Bakasura (Xaliea) took their matches hoping that first blood on Jingle Hel (Wolfy) in Dignitas would enjoy the next two the solo lane at a little over four matches. In game one, Ah Muzen minutes into the match. Snipe Cab (Zapman) took first blood quickly answered taking down on Neith (Realzx) despite being Bakasura under tower. Snipe under SK’s tower at the three controlled the map from that minute mark. SK did not let this moment on. C9 had no answers go unanswered, and less than a to the force of Allied’s Neith and minute later Sun Wukong (Enqu) 31 • GameOn Smite Community Magazine