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Geb (ShadowQ) one full minute
before minions had spawned.
The match continued with gold,
kills, and experience staying
relatively close. Then, at twentysix minutes, TSM baited a fight
at the Fire Giant that ended in a
deicide. With the Fire Giant buff
in hand, TSM secured the victory
with a quick push up right lane
and advanced to the winner’s
bracket semi-finals.
While TSM and Dignitas battled
on the main stage, COGnitive
Gaming and Snipe Gaming
fought on the second stage for a
place in the semi-finals. This was
the first matchup of two North
American teams in the launch
tournament. Snipe amazingly
took the first game with only
three members of their team up.
This was followed by COGnitive
Gaming demonstrating why they
were the first seed from North
America and taking both of the
next games with a vengeance.
wasn’t enough as BaRRaCCuDDa
quickly took out YOUNGBAE. TSM
fought back until the kills, gold,
and experience were even. The
match was an on the edge of your
seat nail bitter, with MLCst3alth
making Ra snipes through walls
to secure a kill to andinster
juking Apollo’s attacks until his
Freya can secure a triple kill (this
after Apollo has scored a triple
kill himself). The turning point
for TSM came when TrixTank
rode in on Guan Yu’s horse to the
rescue and stole the Fire Giant
from COG. TSM takes out three
of COG and pushes the mid lane.
They consider rushing the base,
but then backed out to regroup
and take the last of the towers.
At thirty-six minutes, TSM finds
the kills onto COG, and with all
objectives down they take the
titan and the game.
Match two saw first blood at just
under three and a half minutes
when YOUNGBAE took down
BaRRaCCuDDa. COG finally
scored their first kill ten minutes
into the match, an unusual
occurrence for the typically
dominant team. Just short of
twenty minutes in, TSM took the
Fire Giant and all of COG’s tier
one towers. TSM pushed the
In the first semi-final match up
of the series, Team Solo Mid
faced COGnitive Gaming. COG’s
andinster quickly took first
blood against Lawbster in mid at
just short of four minutes. COG
followed up with their clockwork
like teamwork and took the first
tower at only six minutes into
the game. TSM responded with a
double kill onto Freya and Ra, but it
Issue 1 • May 2014
33 • GameOn Smite Community Magazine