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tickets to the SWC and keeping the squad’s streak of Enemy has been a giant-killer this whole week,
making every available tournament since Launch. upsetting TSM and Envyus to make it to worlds. Their
streak ended in the regional finals. Cloud9 swept
SUNDAY: REGIONAL FINALS them 3-0, looking extremely dominant. Enemy is still
going to worlds though, so they are not disappointed
Set1: Epsilon Esports vs Paradigm (Bo5) in their performance. Cloud9 is a bloodthirsty group,
While both Epsilon and Paradigm had already operating as a machine. They are looking for their
qualified for the SWC, this game is important second consecutive SWC victory and don’t seem
because the winner is granted a bye at the January to be stopping until they hold up Thor’s hammer.
tournament. This bye allows them to avoid the first
round of the games. Both of these teams dominated To summarize the Super Regionals results,
in their Semifinals appearances, cleaning winning the Enemy, Cloud9 G2A, Epsilon Esports, Paradigm,
set 3-0. Epsilon was seen as the emperors of Europe, and Fnatic are the teams that qualified to the SMITE
reigning over the region; Paradigm showed that gods World Championship. The characters that stood
can bleed, beating out Epsilon in a close 3-2 set. This out in the tournament were: Bellona, Hel, Khepri,
tournament, Paradigm went from almost getting Sol, Xing Tian, Zeus, and Zhong Kui. Will these gods
eliminated in the quarterfinals to securing the first remain at the top of the field for months and how
seed in their region. Epsilon, however, are still going will these teams fair against the other regions of
to Worlds and are still likely to do extremely well. Latin America, Brazil, China, and Australia? Tune in
Set2: Cloud9 G2A vs Enemy (Bo5) to the SWC in January to find out and to see which
Like the European set, the fight between Cloud9 team becomes the SMITE World Champions. ■
and Enemy gives a first-seeded spot at the SWC
and the bye out of the first round that it comes with. By Zachary McFarland
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