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Smite World Championship 2015

Smite World Championship
Smite World Championship logo.png
Tournament information
Sport Smite
Location Atlanta, Georgia, US
Month played January
Established 2015
Number of
tournaments
1 annually
Format Double Elimination Placement Stage + Single Elimination Knockout Stage
Teams 10
NRG eSports

Smite World Championship is the annual world championship for the multiplayer online battle arena video game Smite.

From January 9–11, 2015 Hi-Rez Studios hosted the first Smite World Championship. Teams from North America, South America, Europe, and China traveled to Atlanta, Georgia for the tournament. The $2.6 million prize pool for the tournament was at the time the third-highest in eSports, behind the third and fourth iterations of Dota 2's The International, and just slightly ahead of the League of Legends World Championships. One of the North American teams, COGnitive Prime, took home the first place prize with a little over $1.3 million.

The 2016 iteration was held from January 7–10, 2016, and featured tournaments for both the PC and Xbox One versions of the game. The event was streamed on twitch.tv on the SMITE Game TV account. The total prize pool for the PC tournament was $1 million USD.

SWC 2017 was held january 5-8, as part of the Hi-Rez Expo event that also included a Smite console world championship, and the Paladins HRX invitational. It was streamed on the Hireztv twitch account, and had a 1 million USD prize pool, the same as 2016. The winner was the European team NRG Esports, who won the 2016 event under the Epsilon name.


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