SMITE World Championship prize pool distribution, digital rewards and community skins!

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We are excited to announce several new details regarding the Smite World Championship (SWC), to be held January 9 - 11, 2015, at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, GA.

PRIZE POOL

The current prize pool for the SWC is over $1.3 million and growing daily through the Odyssey, a special mythology-themed promotion inside of the game. The SWC will feature the top two teams each from North America, Europe and China, joined by the top team from Brazil, and the top team from Spanish-speaking Latin America.

The prize-pool will be distributed amongst the SWC Participants as follows:

First place winners will receive 50% of the prize-pool, currently over $650,000
Second place will receive 20%,
Third place will receive 15%,
Fourth place will receive 10%,
Fifth through eighth place will receive 1.25% of the total prize pool each.

The SWC prize pool increases each time SMITE players purchase special exclusive content from the Odyssey, a special mythology-themed promotion inside the game. Over $700,000 USD in community contributions have been made to the prize pool in 13 weeks. Another 8 weeks remain in the Odyssey before the prize pool amount is finalized. Additional Odyssey items will continue to be revealed weekly until the SMITE World Championship in January.

FINAL ODYSSEY REWARD

For the final reward for the Odyssey, the SMITE community submitted ideas and voted on a custom cosmetic skin for Thanatos, the Greek Hand of Death. The ‘angelic’ theme was the winning concept and will be the final exclusive bonus item of the Odyssey. The skin is progressive and changes and evolves throughout the course of the match, beginning with the first stage (far left), and moving toward the final stage (far right) as the player levels up.

DIGITAL TICKET OPPORTUNITY

Above is the 2015 Tyr Convention Skin. Fans who are unable to attend the SMITE World Championship in person will be able to attend digitally by purchasing a SMITE World Championship Digital Ticket. For $24.99, viewers will be able to purchase a digital ticket through the official SMITE Twitch TV channel.

Digital ticket holders will receive:

An ad-free stream
Access to subscriber-only chat
Access to exclusive Twitch chat emotes of the teams and SMITE gods
The 2015 Tyr Convention God Skin.
The SWC Ares God Skin
The SWC Ward Skin

The digital rewards will be available to in-person viewers but the SWC ward skin is exclusive to digital ticket purchases.

Regular tickets are now on sale for the World Championship event in January. Digital tickets will be available in early December.

For more, visit swc.smitegame.com.

About SMITE

SMITE is the online Battleground of the Gods, a mythology-themed action game for the PC and, soon, XBox One. Since launching in Europe and North America in March, 2014, SMITE has quickly established itself as one of the Top 3 games in the rapidly growing MOBA genre, with over 5 million players. Themed around gods of mythology and offering a third-person camera and more game modes than any other leading game in its genre, the game provides a unique, action-packed experience that puts the player in the thick of the action.

Play for free at www.smitegame.com.

About Hi-Rez Studios

Atlanta-based Hi-Rez Studios was established in 2005 to create exceptional online interactive entertainment, and is now one of the largest video game studios in the Southeast United States. Its games include the squad-based shooter Global Agenda, the critically acclaimed Tribes: Ascend, and SMITE, the Battleground of the Gods.

For more information, visit www.hirezstudios.com or contact [email protected].