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champions Cloud9 for a seat at the SWC. These team in Europe. The game was not as crazy
rosters have had a history of facing each other since
2013. No matter the winner, this set would not have as North America’s, but it was a lot of fun.
been seen as an upset because the teams are very
close skill-wise. Like the previous set, this match- Set 2: Epsilon Esports vs London Conspiracy (Bo5)
up was a long series of games, lasting the whole
five before a victor was crowned. This set is very This series was the first that sent a European
reminiscent of the finals of the last SWC, between
Cognitive Prime (current Cloud9) and Titan. C9 team to the SMITE World Championship. Epsilon
won the first two games, lost the two subsequent
games and managed to obtain a third win in the final Esports came into this event as the top seeded
game, making themselves the first squad to secure
themselves back-to-back SWC appearances and start team. However, they had no LAN experience and
looking for their second consecutive Worlds victory.
LDNC was riding the high of having just taken down
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Titan. This did not seem to be a problem for Epsilon
Set 1: Titan vs Team Dignitas (Bo1)
Team Dignitas won this set and took home because they won the set in a clean three wins and
slightly more cash and the title of fifth place
out, not dropping a single game. The squad played
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in typical Epsilon style; do whatever, blowout a
teamfight at 12-20 minutes and snowball the game
off of it. Epsilon guaranteed themselves a spot
at worlds in about 80 minutes total game time.
Set 3: Fnatic vs Paradigm (Bo5)
Similar to the previous day’s second set, this
match-up was between very strong long-time rivals.
These players have history facing each other since
way back in 2012. The core of Paradigm won the
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