ARTICLE
THE SUPER
REGIONALS PRIMER
By Zachary McFarland
T
he top Smite team in the world will be
If you are new are returning to Smite esports,
crowned this January. Before this can
the Smite Pro League, or SPL, consists of a group
happen, teams have to fight for their spot at the
of teams that play against each other in pre-
season finale. North American and European teams
scheduled games throughout a season. Each
will have to compete at an event called the “Super
season ends in an international tournament that
Regionals” in November for a chance to punch
crowns a champion for the year. We are currently
their tickets to the Smite World Championship.
nearing the end of the second SPL season.
The North American and European regions
are the oldest in Smite and are run very similarly
to each other. In both regions, there are eight
teams competing in the SPL. The current split
is 10 weeks long in which each team faces each
other team twice in two game sets, for a total of
28 games per team and 224 games per region. A
split being part of a season or what a season is
split up into. Right now, the SPL is in the Fall split,
which is the third and final split of the season, the
Spring and Summer splits having occurred earlier
in the year. At the end of the Fall split, teams will
be ranked from one to eight based on their win/loss
record. Only the top six teams from both regions
will be invited to compete in Super Regionals. Out
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