The Official SMITE Magazine Issue #19 | Page 46

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 46 The Official SMITE Magazine Issue #19 The GameOn Magazine