NRG Esports took down Obey Alliance 3-1 in the grand finals to become two-time winners of the SMITE World Championships. Hoisting up Thor's hammer, the team managed to defend its throne after the 2016 EU Regional Championship and Season 3 EU SPL Fall Season. The tournament favorite and world's number one SMITE team lived up to its billing in a clean grand final set that cemented the team's status as the best of the best. NRG Esports provided suffocating lane presence, objective control, and teamfighting execution. The European powerhouse made its share of mistakes, but the sheer skill gap put the team head-and-shoulders in front of the competition. Obey Alliance managed to take one game in return, but its team play just wasn't enough to break through on the biggest stage.

Game 1

Obey Alliance opened the game as the aggressors with multiple invades and rotations to push NRG Esports on the defense. Unfortunately for Obey Alliance, the idea was well-placed, but the team lacked the execution to win the resulting teamfights. NRG Esports grabbed the lead with stifling defense and shut down the major playmakers, Benjamin "CaptainTwig" Knight and Emil "PrettyPriMe" Edström. Despite the kill lead and map control, Obey Alliance kept the gold lead and the game close. Obey Alliance executed a perfect fight during the 44-minute mark and opened up the NRG Esports base for a potential first game steal. But, NRG Esports' kiting defense prevented the killing blow at the final Titan and the subsequent turnaround led to an NRG victory.

Game 2

NRG Esports dominated from the first minute on and led the series 2-0. The team combined its patient lane approach with perfect synergy in fights to separate the playmakers from the opposition, picking off solo kills for the massive advantage. Obey Alliance's biggest problem was the Chronos and the god's incredible survivability. Each fight, the collapse would end in disaster as Chronos repeatedly lived and wreaked havoc on the remaining Obey Alliance members. From there, NRG Esports stalled until the lead was too massive to climb back from.

Game 3

The third game was a sprint compared to the previous molasses-paced games and it favored Obey Alliance. The underdog team relied on its solo assassin, Harry "Variety" Cumming, to snowball the game and he did exactly that. Variety broke through with a perfect game and whipped up 10 kills without dying once -- he was a force in the backlines and a menace with solo kills. The only blemish to the game plan was the lack of neutral objective control (NRG Esports still stole the Fire Giant), but it was a victory for Obey Alliance.

Game 4

The fourth game was a tale of priority.

NRG Esports prioritized its farming lanes to Emil "emilitoo" Stärnman and Kennet "Adapting" Ros instead of its solo and focused on teamfights rather than control of the map. On the other side, Obey Alliance farmed up evenly and largely avoided fights, but fought most of the game without its star solo player, Variety, in a gamble to snowball him. The kill lead favored NRG Esports, but Obey Alliance crushed the gold lead due to the difference in net worth between the team's solo. When Obey Alliance took fights, the team baited out the opposing relics, but the net worth difference between its player makers, emilitoo and Adapting, was too much to overcome. The rest of the game was all NRG Esports. With several more key chase downs that killed off Variety and the best Obey Alliance defenses, the game was finished.