ARTICLE
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE
SMITE PRO LEAGUE
By Grace “Fayakitteh” & Brandon Harding
A
s a fellow SMITE player, you have
over the course of Spring, Summer, and Fall. Every
probably already stumbled all over the
split ends with a LAN tournament held amongst the
icons, wards, skins and even frames dedicated
top EU and NA squads. Additionally, the “Fall Split
to the “SPL”, short for “SMITE Pro-League”.
LAN Regional” tournaments are also the qualifiers
What started out in 2014 with the “TSM
Apollo” skin as a tribute to Team SoloMid’s
for the yearly “Smite World Championship” (“SWC”).
Since many of these (Thursday to Sunday)
“SMITE Launch Tournament” win, has quickly
engagements are played directly from the pro-
been growing and achieving big popularity,
players’ homes, Twitch- and YouTube broadcasts
especially during the “Summer Split” of 2015.
will be held over the course of an ongoing season.
This was mostly thanks to the “SPL Season
Ticket” bundle, which - bought for 300 Gems offered us players the possibility to gain “Fantasy
Usually there are anywhere between 2 to 4 - what are
called - sets of games; half of them EU, the other NA.
While “Round Robin” (each team faces off
Points” (or “FP”) by either winning in-game
against all the other groups one by one) would be
matches or betting on which of the SMITE eSports
the fairest way to determine the best troop, it is
teams would win throughout the course of a
also very time consuming. This is why during each
season. The more FP accumulated, the better the
set, 2 units fight each other for 2 ‘Conquest’ mode
exclusive prizes (skins, icons, announcer packs)
matches, gaining 1 point per win. That way, even
we could unlock were and soon the system began
if a group has a bad game, it is still possible for
to mean more than just that: we actually started
them to climb to the top of the ranking board, since
to get attached to groups and their members.
whoever has the highest score in the end, wins.
But what is the SPL and how does one keep
track of all the regions and individuals?
The SMITE Pro-League consists of “splits” held
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LAN-Tournaments and the SWC are played
in a bracket, by using a “Best Of 5/3/1” system.
“Best Of 5” is common to advance to the next stage,
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