The Official SMITE Magazine Issue 1 | Page 34

eSports right lane completely and moved on to take the mid tower and phoenix. While COG was able to get four kills on to TSM, fire minions raced into their base from the middle and right lanes. TSM took the Fire Giant again at thirty three minutes and quickly finished the match securing a spot in the finals. The second day of competition focused on the bottom bracket and the fight for a spot in the finals. Team Coast and Denial eSports both lost their first round matches 2-0. Team Dignitas secured their spot in the quarter finals with a decisive 2-0 victory over C9, and SK redeemed their earlier performance by going 2-0 over Snipe. SK and Dignitas faced off for the second time at the tournament. Dignitas once Issue 1 • May 2014 again dominated going 2-0 over SK. This led to a showdown between COGnitive Gaming and Team Dignitas, a familiar scene to North American SMITE fans. and had was sitting 4/0/1, becoming a serious threat to Team Dignitas ever coming back. Dignitas, never to be a team to be ignored, did come back - stealing the Fire Giant at sixteen minutes with ShadowQ’s expert Aphrodite play. Dignitas pushed their advantage, taking objectives until COG rallied and was able to kill three of Dignitas’s damage dealers. In what can only be considered an amazing feat of superior game play and arrogance, Dignitas baits COG into a team fight at the Fire Giant while Apollo (Zapman) pushes into the base and takes down COG’s titan and game number one. The semi-finals match between the top two teams in North America was as exciting as the matches that lead to this epic matchup. First blood came only one minute into the game and in favor of COG when Odin (Daretocare) took out Aphrodite (ShadowQ) in the duo lane. While Daretocare and BaRRaCCuDDa found another kill on to Zapman, Lassiz and TheBest managed to take out MLCst3alth in the mid lane. This began a somewhat even exchange of kill until, at only eleven minutes into the In the second match up, game, andinster had finished COGnitive Gaming once again his polynomicon on He Bo took first blood, this time on Ra 34 • GameOn Smite Community Magazine