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
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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
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