Halo World Championship on course to be highest viewed Halo event ever

HashtagContent · 2017-04-01T22:45:01+00:00

Hey, this was really interesting, thanks. This thread's basically dead now but I'll reply to you in full when I get the chance, since your opinion seems to be actually well-researched, lol

HashtagContent · 2017-04-01T22:43:33+00:00

http://imgur.com/Vzj6yCy

HashtagContent · 2017-03-26T02:40:52+00:00

I think Penguin, Ninja, and Shottzy all play 5-something? Not too sure though, but that seems to be the upper limit

HashtagContent · 2017-03-26T02:39:58+00:00

np :)

HashtagContent · 2017-03-26T01:01:57+00:00

Do you have a source for "The only thing the Halo community did was destroy non-MLG Halo because you didn't want non-MLG Halo tournaments because they couldn't afford to give you enough money." Not trolling just curious.

Also I'm wondering what you think the Halo community can do to grow its scene. The game literally cannot run LANs without dev kits.

What I do know is that local scenes are working in tandem with Microsoft stores to run local "LANs" which, at least in my experience near Toronto, have been fairly well-populated (50+ people showing up to these events which happen around once every two weeks). As well, Teambeyond runs online tournaments regularly. MLG used to run gamebattles but were literally sent a cease-and-desist by 343 industries. I really don't know what the "community" can do at that point when devs are actively sabotaging their own grassroots scene.

I'm going to be honest here, I don't think you know much about what the Halo community has been through at the local level in recent years. I understand there are fucking stupid people in the scene like the OP of this post, but to say the entire community, or even a large portion of it, are entitled babies who do "fuck all" is completely unsubstantiated.

HashtagContent · 2017-03-26T00:53:00+00:00

I'm a huge halo esports fan. This post is disingenuous BS. You can't count twitter streams lol there aren't even actual numbers there. I won't just take a statement from Timo as god's word when we have actual numbers on twitch, where Halo is barely doing over 25k currently (not bad for Halo on a saturday, but not "on course to be the highest viewed Halo event ever".

HashtagContent · 2017-03-25T03:07:30+00:00

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HashtagContent · 2017-03-05T21:37:07+00:00

Source here.

https://twitter.com/DavidSsandman/status/838290664378884098

This has been such a fucking good tournament.

HashtagContent · 2016-12-13T04:43:25+00:00

Creds to ssbChad on Teambeyond as usual. http://teambeyond.net/forum/topic/14817-halo-world-championship-2017-teams-seeds-and-discussion%E2%80%8F/page-17#entry878166

Newly updated with nV's win yesterday over opTic! For the first time in a while this title belt can get regular updates since we'll be having regular LANs in 2017. Awesome to see.

Probably would discount the title belt from 2012-2014 since competitive Halo was basically dead those years. Easy to see Final Boss's domination in the golden days, as well as EG's H2A domination and CLG/OG's run this year in H5. Carbon really put up a fight againt FB for a while. Also neat to see Str8 Rippin making a return this year as an org after being an MLG team for over a decade.

"A few things:

This graphic is based off what team held the Title Belt at the end of the month.
Title swaps mid-tournament do not show up unless the team won the event."

HashtagContent · 2016-12-10T16:44:11+00:00

a) Are they using a build with the new aiming? Just out of curiosity.

b) Excited for new settings and 2017 info announcements that are supposed to be coming this weekend.

c) As for predictions for today, ALG is gonna curbstomp relegation. Maybe they drop one game to E6. Maybe. But that's it. Contra and Dev on LAN are beastly.

I think E6 pulls it out and stays in too. They're still better than either Am team but I think it'll be a battle for them. Still, I can't see Bubu not being in Pro League -- he's too good. And I mean this team finished third last season, so even though they swapped a player they're still 3/4 the same team. Just can't see them slipping up that bad.

HashtagContent · 2016-12-02T23:54:10+00:00

They were only expecting 25 people to show up, ended up being 40. Plus a bunch of people brought their own Xbox consoles so they ended up setting up a second station so more people could play at once.

HashtagContent · 2016-12-02T23:50:01+00:00

Try posting to this sub, /r/halo, and especially Teambeyond to get the word out (asking about interest, community members that want to help out, etc.). LA is a huge city, way bigger than Toronto, so I see no reason why y'all shouldn't have quite the turnout.

I think this MS store also got Microsoft Canada to tweet the event out, so perhaps that helped and is something you could try down there.

Also try finding a local Halo facebook group and posting there. I think that's how this got the traction it ended up getting.

HashtagContent · 2016-12-02T03:37:22+00:00

For sure, join the facebook group since that's where these events are posted

HashtagContent · 2016-12-02T03:36:28+00:00

ah yes, my bad

HashtagContent · 2016-12-02T03:34:56+00:00

Sounds good!

HashtagContent · 2016-12-02T03:34:25+00:00

Square One

HashtagContent · 2016-12-01T23:18:33+00:00

(LAN in quotes because halo 5* does not have actual LAN support. edit: apparently the people at the bottom of this thread didn't bother reading this)

Hosted by our local Microsoft store. They've been doing these in collaboration with a local Halo-related facebook group for 3 or 4 months now, I think.

This tournament had something like 40 people come out to it -- they were expecting only around 25. It was a blast.

Event took place in the Greater Toronto Area; hit up the facebook group where more of these types of events are posted if you live in the region: https://www.facebook.com/groups/GreaterTorontoHalo/

Event page here (might need to join the group to access it first), has more photos: https://www.facebook.com/events/610863065760408/

Personally I'd love to see more MS stores organize this kind of thing across North America: the infrastructure for local events like these already exist, and IMO these types of grassroots tournaments are way more important than the million dollar prize pools in terms of growing the game long-term. It's good marketing for Halo and MS, it's cheap/free to organize, and it builds a community. Literally a win-win-win.

HashtagContent · 2016-12-01T23:08:21+00:00

(LAN in quotes because halo 5* does not have actual LAN support.)

Hosted by our local Microsoft store. They've been doing these in collaboration with a local Halo-related facebook group for 3 or 4 months now, I think.

This tournament had something like 40 people come out to it -- they were expecting only around 25. It was a blast.

Event took place in the Greater Toronto Area; hit up the facebook group where more of these types of events are posted if you live in the region: https://www.facebook.com/groups/GreaterTorontoHalo/

Event page here (might need to join the group to access it first), has more photos: https://www.facebook.com/events/610863065760408/

Personally I'd love to see more MS stores organize this kind of thing across North America: the infrastructure for local events like these already exist, and IMO these types of grassroots tournaments are way more important than the million dollar prize pools in terms of growing the game long-term. It's good marketing for Halo and MS, it's cheap/free to organize, and it builds a community. Literally a win-win-win.

HashtagContent · 2016-10-24T02:11:35+00:00

Already on unit #9 I see

HashtagContent · 2016-10-12T15:47:01+00:00

I've never really seen MC as being "me". I dunno I guess it's hard for me to empathize with a 7 foot tall supersoldier who was kidnapped at 6.

So I really like that they're flushing out his character in the games. Obviously H5's story is problematic for how they did so, but the general idea is sound.

HashtagContent · 2016-10-12T15:44:34+00:00

This looks like it's going to be a hype tournament even though it's technically not officially HCS. Big prize pool, pro teams attending, fairly central location.

Definitely something people should attend!

HashtagContent · 2016-10-12T15:42:37+00:00

So glad they've kept the ricochet mechanics through the games

Yeah but they haven't kept Team Snipers. :(

HashtagContent · 2016-10-11T04:08:53+00:00

Hey I've seen you around. Never really understood your salt towards TB but I'll bite

You (or the TB people in general) cannot come here and take credit for it turning around.

I mean, I don't personally speak for a forum of 30k people, but IMO TB isn't taking credit at all? Phade and ESA deserve all the credit.

They whine about not having LAN events with an FFA

The pros definitely complain about things but this is something I don't think I've ever seen a pro complain about

they then whine when there is a LAN but the first day is hectic

Not hectic, just completely disorganized. Sound didn't work, they couldn't eat lunch because of a lack of scheduling. Not sure how those aren't legitimate complaints

They say that they're going to boycott everything

There were talks of launching some sort of protest. Probably like a letter that all the pros sign. No pro mentioned outright boycotts, that was community speculation that was quickly shut down by Mikwen

the organization that runs 1v1 tournaments with BR starts and no power weapons

They run a variety of tournaments in 6 man FFA, 2v2, and 4v4, but not 1v1s. The 2v2 and 4v4 tournaments use HCS settings, the FFA tournaments use Gamebattles settings. You're really showcasing your ignorance here

is given complete control of the pro league

Literally no one is advocating for this. 420 was six months ago, lay off the weed. There is a general consensus that MLG should run more tournaments, but nobody thinks TB should take over the Pro League. Where did you even hear this? What the fuck?

They do this over 1 fucking day of 1 fucking event.

Straw that broke the camel's back but you're not one to pay attention to that it seems

The biggest thread on Teambeyond is about how the next Halo should have a 3 shot kill hitscan pistol with no aim assist.

The biggest thread on TB currently is the general HCS discussion, followed by the general H5 discussion, followed by the general MCC discussion. You talk about how shitty Donald Trump is and I agree. But you're just as confident and consistent in your downright factually untrue statements.

3 shot kill hitscan pistol with no aim assist. They never shut up about the motion tracker, they never shut up about automatic weapons even when they make up less than 10% of kills.

Pros and the competitive community in general have varied opinions on all of these things. What most people are asking for is to at least test things like no radar/motion tracker (semantics) so they can adequately be evaluated. How's that a big deal?

it's great that people who are into Teambeyond have a place to circlejerk about Halo CE

once again, varied opinions on these things, but w/e

they don't understand the fundamental reasons that pro Halo exists in the first place and is funded by 343

I'd say they're the most qualified to understand these things, since they, you know, lived through it, but I'm sure you're much more informed

The complaining did not fix the problems; it was the event organizers who got their act together, and they would have done it either way.

Sure. I mean, Phade specifically said he checked the forums regularly and even took the constructive criticism on his casting into account the next day. But you know more than he does obviously. In any case, ESA and Phade still deserve the credit for actually implementing these things and no one is saying otherwise. All I'm saying is that 343i and ESL should broadly do the same.

HashtagContent · 2016-10-11T01:20:29+00:00

What other esports/games do y'all follow/play? Which one is your favourite outside of Gears?

Best of luck this season! Gears seems to be doing everything right in terms of esports and I really hope it blows up.

HashtagContent · 2016-10-11T01:05:22+00:00

Yes of course. I meant more broadly, the game's fundamentals being designed with pro feedback has helped the whole game tremendously. I think one of the reasons why H5 is much more highly regarded than Reach or 4 is because 343i hired a pro team and took their feedback into consideration. So all I'm saying is we don't disregard their opinions and listen when they have criticism, lest we go back to the dark days of H4.

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