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Smite World Championships: Day 1 Preview

The Smite World Championship for 2016 kicks off today at the Cobb Energy Centre in Georgia. I’ve already written a guide to explain what the event itself is but there are a lot of matches happening on day one thanks to the tournament’s double elimination format. I’ll be going along to watch and report back (after I’ve opened my birthday cards – IT IS MY BIRTHDAY and I’m the sort of person who brings cards with me on a trip) but so you don’t feel lost if you want to watch, here is a helpful intro to the eight teams who will be playing and their basic storylines.

BIRTHDAY.

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Dote Night: Smite’s $1m Prize Pool Cap And What It Means For The Pro Scene

The riches of heaven - no more than $1m in your prize pool thx

Earlier today game developers Hi-Rez announced that they would be capping the prize pool for their Smite World Championships at $1m. Smite [official site] is an over-the shoulder MOBA whose character roster is populated by the gods of various religions. Its inaugural World Championship took place earlier this year in Atlanta, Georgia with a total prize pool of $2.6m, the majority of which was crowdfunded. I got in touch with Hi-Rez president Stew Chisam to dig into why he thinks the cap will benefit the professional gaming scene:

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Smite’s New Lad: Ah Puch, Horrific God Of Decay

I will add you to the mailing list

If I had to evangelise for one god, I’ve decided it would probably be Ah Puch, Horrific God of Decay. He’s coming to Smite’s Mayan pantheon of playable gods in the MOBA’s next patch [official god page here] so I guess I could evangelise about his in-game presence, but I’m thinking more about going door-to-door and asking people if they’ve heard the word of Ah Puch.

“Have you heard the word of Ah Puch?” I would say.

“Who’s that when he’s at home?” they would respond, wrong-footed by the unfamiliar name.

“WELL,” I would say, jamming my foot in the door and brandishing promotional literature. “He’s the lord of the ninth hell, the lowest and most horrible of them all, and the king of the underworld.”

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Smite World Championships: Day 1 Roundup

The Smite World Championship is an eSports event taking place in Atlanta, Georgia. The prize pool is just over $2.6 million making it the third biggest in eSports history. Pip is out there writing daily reports, exploring the event and putting PayDay bars in her handbag (just in case).

Day one of the Smite World Championships opened with North American favourites Cognitive Red taking on the Chinese second seed Doage Is Dog. It looked briefly like there might be an upset as DID scored first blood on Cog Red’s Hunter, Snoopy. Unfortunately for DID, that was not a sign of things to come and the rest of the kills, and indeed the game, went to the young North American side.

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Now With More German: Tribes’ ‘Marksman’ Update

Videogames!
The Tribes: Ascend updates keep on rolling out, and so too does evidence of Hi-Rez’s continued commitment to filling this game with strange stuff. Sure, they’ve already added disco, but now there are costumes. And elaborate backdrops. And German. But anyway, as long as the game keeps being good, we should not question the nature of these updates. And there are some pretty intriguing new toys in this update, so here we are.

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RPS Feature All that war and you only scored one? You guys suck...

Wot I Think: Tribes: Ascend

Wotcha. Bet I don't miss at this range.

Tribes: Ascend is finally out of beta and ready to welcome all-comers in free-to-play jetpack combat. Is it enough to be the series’ true successor though, or just another casualty of its own reputation? We sent Richard screaming through the air to find out.

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