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ESPORTS
DAY 2:
January 6 was a good day for both NA and EU,
with the winning team from each set never dropping a
game. Eager made their debut against HAPI, and Eager
controlled the set from the beginning: 2-0 Eager. SoaR
faced off against Obey, which was one of the better sets
of the day, but SoaR looked shaken and Obey looked
strong. SoaR fell 0-2 and was eliminated. NRG, EU’s
number one seed, faced off against Allegiance, and
NRG won like every other winner on Day 2: 2-0. The last
set, LichT vs. Luminosity, generated a lot of excitement
following NOzx’s strong Day 1 performance. Sadly for
him and the others of LichT, BaRRaCCuDDa and co
had other plans in mind, as LG took down LichT 2-0.
DAY 3:
The third day may go down in history as the best day
in Smite eSports, featuring four of the best teams in the
world and two of the best sets of Smite every played.
Obey Alliance vs. Eager
Obey Alliance came in as the underdogs to the
Number 1 seeded Eager, but they quickly proved to
the world that Obey should not be underestimated.
Variety’s Tyr and Ataraxia’s Freya helped race their
team out to a 2-0 lead over Eager, and those two games
were hardly close. Obey as a team died just 10 times in
those two games, compared to getting 46 kills. As for
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Eager’s gods, they definitely brought out their pocket
strats early on picking up Anubis and Terra, the latter
of whom was played exclusively by Divios in the solo
lane. After falling behind early in the set, Eager realized
they had to play better, and they did just that. Zapman
came out on his Jing Wei and Hou Yi and helped
lead Eager to two straight 40 minute plus victories,
tying the series at 2-2. In the final game, we got to
see PANDALIKE pull out a Khepri and PrettyPriMe
bring out a Zeus, a combo that proved fatal for the
Eager boys. Obey rushed out to a twenty two minute
victory, where Eager only managed a measly 2 kills.
NRG Esports vs. Luminosity
In what was the “hardest set [Yammyn has] ever
played,” the fan favorite Luminosity faced off against
the defending World Champions, NRG. Much like
Eager, Luminosity brought their pocket picks out early,
bringing out Mercury for Masked. Unlike TheBest’s
Anubis, Masked’s Mercury worked out incredibly well,
allowing LG to take the first game off of NRG. LG started
off Game 2 similarly, slowly pulling out to a lead in the
early game. However, a late game fight at the Gold Fury
tilted the game in NRG’s favor, as they quickly went on
the offensive and won the game. NRG continued their
winning ways in Game 3, with Adapting rocking his Fenrir
and iRaffer showing the world his Khepri. Game 4 saw
the return of Masked’s Mercury and the return of LG’s
victories. With the set tied 2 games apiece, the pressure
on each heading into Game 5 picked up and the hype
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