Episode 33 - Dots Or Not?

Hello and welcome to episode 33 of HCS Pro Talk! This week, while there were not any 2K's happening over the weekend, instead there are some other tournaments to recap including the Microsoft Store Halo 5 Summer Series 2v2's! Of course we have the news, rosters, and more to discuss. As our main topic of this weeks show, we discuss whether or not Radar should be within Halo moving forward. Thank you for the listening and as always, links to everything that is talked about in the episode is below for your viewing pleasure.

Housekeeping

Last week we discussed the results of the North America Gamebattles 2K and Elevate’s win over Hitmen. What we failed to discuss was Bound was subbing in for ElTown on the Elevate roster. That was a major oversight and will not happen again. Thank you to Mark Francis (@MarkOwnsUrFace) for pointing this out for us.

Bound’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/KodakBound

Winner of both June and July’s Astro Spartans 1v1 tournaments

Just a reminder that the Midwest Esports Halo 3 2v2 tournament is coming up this weekend at Next Level Expo

http://midwestesports.com/nle/h3/

Saturday, August 18th, 2018 at Next Level Expo

At Gateway Hotel and Conference Center, 2100 Green Hills Dr, Ames, IA 50014

Format

Xbox 360
2v2 Double-elimination
Best of 3
Maps: MLG Guardian 8, MLG Heretic 8, MLG The Pit 8
Gametype: MLG TS8
First to 25 kills wins
Starting Saturday, August 18th at 2pm

Price

Tournament Entry $10 per player

Prize pool

1st Place (50% )
2nd Place (25%)
3rd Place (15%)
4th Place (10%)

What to Bring?

Xbox 360 Headset

Roster Mania!

LATAM

Nothing to report at this time

Australia/New Zealand

Nothing to report at this time

EU

Team Upsla

Morguh
Batchford
Renan
Shaadyzer

Raidant Esports

Jimbo
Lunny
Riots
Mose

North America

Nothing to report at this time

Wills Adventures Within the Haloverse

What kinds of Halo has Will been playing recently?

News

Deadline for MCC Insider Sign Up

https://twitter.com/ske7ch/status/1026949951937437696

Covenant Slayer Back Within Halo 5

https://twitter.com/Halo/status/1027607830155616256

Halo Community Spotlight

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/spotlight-august-9-2018

News (Competitive)

Roy Playing MCC Insider!?

https://twitter.com/theRoyBorg/status/1026641573675782144

Roster Lock for HCS London August 20th

https://twitter.com/HCS/status/1026966466845974529

Tashi On Halo 3 2v2 Dreamhack Tournament

https://twitter.com/Tashi343i/status/1028092988071657472

Quick update on the Halo 3 2v2 at @DreamHack Atlanta: Based on some concerns raised by you beautiful people, we will now be offering a separate team pass just for the 2v2 rather than requiring people to register onsite only. This will allow people to register before flying out.
The price will be the same as two normal DreamHack spectator tickets, so no extra charges to compete in the tournament. When 4v4 passes go on sale for open teams, there will be an option to select for the 2v2 to secure a spot in both tournaments if you'd like to play in both.
Team passes will go on sale next month. Info regarding team caps, formats, settings, and more will come in a few more weeks. Thanks, and have a great weekend!

Flamesword Creating LAN?

https://twitter.com/OpTicFlamesword/status/1027246103866036225

How many gamers from Texas would be down for a few Halo 3 2v2/4v4 LANs before Dreamhack?

Europa Halo News

New Website Being Worked On

https://twitter.com/EuropaHalo/status/1027126195522031616

Working on a new website for teams confirmed to go to LAN along with FA's/To2/To3. If your a team that's 100% going to LAN please do message me as we will upload you to the site to make potential scrims easier to find. Hope also to run a pre LAN cup for all teams going to LAN.

No Team Needed FFA VOD Now Available

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DsjHAoju1E&feature=youtu.be

Pro Battle League News

Season 3 Format Announcement

https://www.battleleague.com/single-post/2018/08/07/Season-3-Format

We believe that Season 3 is going to be another big leap forward for the PBL. Our overall season format isn’t changing much. There will still be three phases to the season.  1. Regular Season 2. Qualification Tournament and 3. North American Championship.
The PBL has four conferences, Eastern, Northern, Southern and Western. Now each conference has six teams. During the regular season, teams play each of their conference opponents twice. Conference matches are Best of Five. The team with the best conference record at the end of the regular season is the Conference Champion. The four Conference Champions go straight to the North American Championship.  
One change with our expansion to 24 teams is that the bottom 2 teams with the worst records in each conference are eliminated from the post season. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th place teams in all the conferences are placed in a seeded Qualification Bracket. The 2nd place teams earn a first-round bye.  The teams that finish in the top four go on to meet the Conference Champs in the North American Championship. The Qualification Bracket matches are Best of Seven
The Qualification Bracket seeding is heavily based on the performance of the teams in the regular season. In addition, there are mid-season matches between conferences.  The matches against another conference do not count toward a team’s season record and are only used for later seeding in the Qualification Bracket and North American Championship Bracket
The North American Championship bracket is seeded based on strength of the conference determined during the inter-conference matches and the results of the Qualification Bracket.  North American Championship matches are Best of Seven.

St. Louis Sentinels

Squallaye is now the team captain

New York Titans

Rob the Turtle is now the team captain

Chicago United

My Tails is now the team captain

Kansas City Lightning

Vulcan is now the team captain

Portland Tempest

Trailblazer is now the team captain

Scrim Recap

Monday, August 6th

Lucid VS Online Warriors

Series Score - 7-2 - Lucid
Stats - http://halodatahive.com/Scrim/Summary/10882

Lucid had 44 more kills
Lucid had 17 more assists
Lucid had 45 less deaths
Lucid had 19 more power kills
Lucid had 20 more precision kills
Lucid had 9 more magnum kills

Tuesday, August 7th

Veggis VS Gosu Crew

Series Score - 12-3 - Veggies
Stats - http://halodatahive.com/Scrim/Summary/10883

Team Reciprocity VS Elevate

Series Score - 9-6 - Reciprocity
Stats - http://halodatahive.com/Scrim/Summary/10884

Reciprocity had 185 more kills
Reciprocity had 159 more assist
Reciprocity had 192 less deaths
Reciprocity had 18 more power kills
Reciprocity had 184 more precision kills
Reciprocity had 168 more magnum kills

Wednesday, August 8th

Renegades VS TOX

Series Score - 8-7 - Renegades
Stats - http://halodatahive.com/Scrim/Summary/10885

Renegades had 28 more kills
Renegades had 41 more assists
Renegades had 25 less deaths
Renegades had 13 more power kills
Renegades had 36 more precision kills
Renegades had 36 more magnum kills

Lucid VS Radiant Esports

Series Score - 15-0 - Lucid
Stats - http://halodatahive.com/Scrim/Summary/10886

Thursday, August 9th

Radiant Esports VS MockIt Esports

Series Score - 8-2 - Radiant
Stats - http://halodatahive.com/Scrim/Summary/10887

Radiant had 25 more kills
MockIt had 16 more assists
Radiant had 25 less deaths
Radiant had 13 more power kills
MockIt had 15 more precision kills
MockIt had 22 more magnum kills

TOX VS Team Reciprocity

Series Score - 10-5 - TOX
Stats - http://halodatahive.com/Scrim/Summary/10888

TOX had 54 more kills
TOX had 23 more assists
TOX had 56 less deaths
Both teams had 38 power kills
TOX had 73 more precision kills
TOX had 78 more magnum kills

Friday, August 10th

Trifecta VS Elevate

Series Score - 8-7 - Trifecta
Stats - http://halodatahive.com/Scrim/Summary/10889

Elevate had 14 more kills
Trifecta had 8 more assists
Elevate had 14 less deaths
Elevate had 19 more power kills
Trifecta had one more precision kill - 613-612
Elevate had one more magnum kill - 602-601

TOX VS Trifecta

Series Score - 12-3 - TOX
Stats - http://halodatahive.com/Scrim/Summary/10890

Tournament Recap

The Focus Fire Weekly FFA Tournament Recap

No tournament took place last week

Noble Halo Wars 2 3v3 Open Tournament

1st Place

Solid HW/Mike Beaston/Stay Classy

$90 for the team

2nd Place

Diverse/DeluxeSwing/Flame Pieman

Bracket - https://noblevents.challonge.com/cz58ft04
VOD - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/296421464##

Female Pro League/Acron Esports Halo 5 2v2 Tournament Recap

1st Place

MLGQueen
Katey Marie

2nd Place

Monza
Krandapus

Astro Spartans Halo 5 1v1 Tournament Recap

1st Place

Neptune

$1,000

2nd Place

Scaryotic

3rd/4th

Renegade
Marbs

Bracket - https://bit.ly/2OjV9at

Astro Spartans Monthly FFA Recap

1st Place

Ryno

$500
Bracket - https://bit.ly/2P9i6P0

Halo 5 Summer Series 2v2 Tournament Recaps - https://bit.ly/2B6MdU9

Midwest Stores

Woodland Hills

1st Place

Oklahomies

Woodfield Mall

1st Place

Bubbalicious

St. Louis Galleria

1st Place

Ligma

Penn Square Mall

1st Place

Click

Oakbrooks Center

1st Place

More ‘Nades Plz

Oak Park Mall

1st Place

Walking Trashcans

Mall of America

1st Place

Strafe

Kenwood Town Center

1st Place

Those Guys

Easton Town Centrer

1st Place

HTC Esports

Beachwood Place

1st Place

Wolfblade

Northeast Stores

5th Ave - NYC

1st Place

Sesame Street

Destiny

1st Place

Tenacious Two

King of Prussia Mall

1st Place

Asylum

Montgomery

1st Place

Lil Clan

Walden Garden

1st Place

MOUSE RAT

Westfarms

1st Place

CT Fives

South Stores

Baybrook

1st Place

Bloods

Houston Galleria

1st Place

Mynx wit da Cheese

La Cantera

1st Place

Red Elotes

Lakeside Mall

1st Place

Final Bass

Northpark

1st Place

No Idea

The Domain

1st Place

Old Timerzz

The Woodlands

1st Place

Titans Needler

Southeast Stores

Florida Mall

1st Place

Kryptek Squad

Mall at Green Hills

1st Place

Oppress

Southpark

1st Place

Poh

St. John’s Town Center

1st Place

Bringin’ Heat

Streets at Southpoint

1st Place

Bedford Boys

Town Center at Boca Raton

1st Place

Primal

West Stores

Ala Moana

1st Place

Enos

Bellevue Square

1st Place

Smooth Criminals

Fashion Show

1st Place

Team Two Hands

Fashion Valley

1st Place

Lipton

Pioneer Place

1st Place

AMBITION

Scottsdale Fashion Square

1st Place

We Are Worse

South Coast Plaza

1st Place

Team Dark Souls

Stanford Shopping Center

1st Place

Backpackers

Topanga

1st Place

Tilted Towers

University Village

1st Place

The Gods of Halo 1

Should Radar be Within Halo Infinite/Future Halo Titles? - The Results

Poll Results - 79 Total Votes

Yes (All Multiplayer)

15%

Yes (Casual Only)

56%

Yes (Competitive Only)

2%

No. Just, No.

27%

Discussion

Mark Francis

All casual radars should be switched to the current Team Arena radar. Radar is so unnecessary for an experienced Halo player. It would be very interesting to see how no radar 4v4 plays in Halo 5.

Gametime

Voted casual only, but I really do like the current competitive setup if only when using abilities.

JustSimon

No Radar in competitive.... simple. it's noobish. Our legends were made without radar... all the playmakers were the one I enjoyed supporting the most. No radar and 70% of the *good kids* will def get s huge drop

Scudpuddle

My vote is yes casuals only. I believe competitive should be able to have the game how they want it, within reason of course. If they want no radar, don’t give them radar. If you’re a casual, you don’t have to play the competitive list. Assuming playlist population stays high enough to sustain such a split.
I kinda like how the radar is right now for arena. Only shows spartan abilities. For competitive play, I think t allows for some sneakiness, which is how I like to play. Plus I hate crouching. And with how fast it is now and will likely continue to be, it takes too damn long to do anything while crouched.

Goalie Sniper

Radar is a staple of Halo. It needs to stay. How the radar works is completely dependant on the style of gameplay we get with Infinite. If it goes back to classic halo 3 style gameplay. Have it work as it did back in halo 3. Have competitive playlist like MLG just turn the setting off.  If the gameplay remains the same as it currently is. Have sprint show up on radar. Regular movement not. And just turn it off completely for an MLG style playlist.

Shoutouts

Thank you to Sander for the topic suggestion of Radar!

https://twitter.com/Sander_vs

Community Creations

Meme Monday

https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/

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