COGnitive Gaming

COGnitive Gaming is a premier American SMITE team. It was formed in July 2013 as one of the first competitive SMITE teams. It has since been home to several European and American SMITE lineups, most notably the lineups of COG Prime and COG Red, which were leading teams in Season 1 before disbanding leading into Season 2. This article describes its main lineup, which has been dubbed COGnitive Prime. For the other teams, see COGnitive Red, COGnitive Forge and COGnitive EU.

Pre Launch
COGnitive Gaming was originally comprised of Shing, the captain, MLCst3alth, Allied, Kaeyoh and 0mega. MLC was benched for not playing the game enough (as he was hanging out with his girlfriend too much) by Shing, replaced by Incontinentia. Kaeyoh then retired from competitive Smite. Allied, Incontinentia and Shing then founded SNIPE Gaming, with 0mega leaving at the same time.

Andinster then invited 0mega and MLCst3alth to his new team, whose other members were BaRRaCCuDDa and DaretoCare. For the remainder of pre-launch, COGnitive Gaming almost went undefeated, losing to a single team, DownToFrag (led by djpernicus), once.

Season 1
COG placed third during the Smite Launch Tournament, being knocked out by Team Dignitas in the semifinals. They were almost defeated by SNIPE Gaming earlier in the tournament but due to an unfortunate misplay, COG eventually won that matchup.

Summer Split
On July 23rd, Meerkat and bchm parted ways with COGnitive. Meanwhile, Homiefe returned to the jungle, while Wubbn and Baskintodaface join as the new support and solo laner, respectively.

In the Fall Relegations, COGnitive successfully defended their SPL spot against a freshly sponsored Noble eSports in a convincing 3-0 series, qualifying for the Fall Split.

Fall Split
On August 13th, only days before the start of the split, FaymousHate announced the team had been released by COGnitive Gaming. It was later clarified by COGnitive's DeamonMachine that the roster had disbanded instead, leading to the contract release of the players.

On the same day, a new roster was seen joining the in-game clan. It was then confirmed by COGnitive manager David Fry that this would be the new lineup.

Highlight Videos
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