Time to grab your jacket, snowboard and head to the mountains because the Halo World Championship is coming to the X Games. ESPN announced today it has partnered with Xbox to bring the tournament to Aspen, Colorado for the last weekend in January featuring eight of the best teams from around the world: six from North America and two international. The event will be group play, single elimination similar to the online qualifiers and promises to reward the top performing teams with medals and $30,000 in prize pool money. It will not contribute any points or change placements for regional finals. The Halo World Championship Tour: X Games Aspen Invitational may be viewed on WatchESPN, Twitch.tv/Halo and MLG.TV/Halo during the event.
2016 brings in a new year of Halo 5 content and community goodness. While we wait to hear more from 343 at their new studio, not much has happened in the news front. Lots of Forgers have taken to Halo 5 and we’ve seen some spectacular results from tutorial videos with scripting, awesome new maps and other things that will completely blow your mind. Not explicitly Halo, but relevant to the competitive scene, MLG was purchased by Activision/Blizzard likely securing the fate of Halo eSports on that platform. Evacuation is this episode’s campaign focus and we’ll visit another multiplayer map on our next episode. Happy New Year everyone!
This is our final podcast for the year and while we were planning on taking a look back at everything we accomplished this year, we decided to discuss a new controversial feature that got added just before we recorded this show. In addition to discussing the recent Cartographer’s Gift update, we brought up some of the concerns behind the new requisition bundles in the REQ store. We’ll hope to see you all in the new year and online.Subscribe
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