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ESPORTS

SWC PC RECAP

By Isaac Weissman

From January 5 to the 8, in a corner of icey Atlanta, the Hi-Rez expo raged. Players

from all over the world gathered to show their dominance and countless spectators

from countless countries arrived to cheer on their favorite teams.

DAY 1: team with a strong performance against LichT. SoaR and

Luminosity, who both beat their international opponents,

The placement stage went largely as expected, with faced off against each other as well. LG, for the most

the NA and EU teams winning against their opponents part, had a grip on the game from the get go, but SoaR

with the exception of Allegiance. The Latin American Team, would not give up so easily, it took LG forty minutes to take

LichT showed up at Hi-Rez expo determined to show down SoaR on the back’s of BaRRaCCuDDa’s 5/0/8 Sol.

they should not be discounted for not being a part of the In the loser’s bracket, we saw Brazil’s INTZ face

SPL. Their substitute N0zx rocked the world stage with a off against China’s HAPI, with HAPI emerging as the

dominant Ra, bringing his team past Allegiance resulting victors. ALG faced off against the Dire Wolves after

in a matchup with Obey Alliance, who comfortably beat this match. ALG proved that their loss to LichT was a

Oceania’s Dire Wolves. Obey, who would eventually advance fluke by taking down the Oceania team with no mercy,

to the Finals, continued to demonstrate they were not a new allowing DW to get only 2 kills the entire game.

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