From my point of view, the global championship was a big success. I would love to see Microsoft and 343 and whoever else do something again. I think that if they could manage a 4v4, it would be best. Everyone knows that when it comes to competitive halo, 4v4 has always been the staple. I would rather see them continue to do the playlist setup because it makes the tournament very accessible for all players. However, I am not sure how the playlist could regulate it so that only a set team of four could play in the playlist then also track the team.
The only thing that I can think of at the moment that could work would be if they had something similar to the clan system in h2. The playlist would only allow you to start the minor clan match playlist if all members of the party were all in the same clan. That would allow the playlist to regulate itself. I have no idea if there is anyway for this to be done, but it would be awesome.
Overall, doing the online qualification and live event invitation system then all leading to a LAN finals is awesome. This would be incredible for a 4v4 championship! What do you guys think?
Yeah, I think they should do this every year, like MLG did back in the day. A 4v4 Global Championships would be nice, it would be cool to see some old teams coming back, such as status quo. They should do this again with Halo 4 next year, around the same time, get people pumped for Halo 5, it would be awesome. Just make it a yearly event, as competitive Halo has made Halo what it is today.
I like the yearly thing and it would help build hype for H5. I would not want to wait that long for this one though. Maybe having a singles championship and a team championship. One could be in the summer like this one, then one in spring or winter. They could have the first 4v4 announced here pretty soon and do it around spring break? It is for sure something that should continue. It is nice to see more developer support for halo. I hope that continues with tournaments and overall game design when they do H5.
> I wonder how they make money from it and how much.
I am pretty sure, they make their money from advertisements, sponsorships etc, but these aren’t really a money making event. Its more about a community hype sort of thing, and most of the money they make is used to pay of the fees and such.
I would honestly love to see another Global Championship, it was an amazing event! In terms of the finances, I don’t think the aim of the event was necessarily to make money but more to be used as an advertising tool for the Xbox One/ Microsoft - hence the 5+ trailers. I agree 4v4 would be the best option, but if it came to it I would still be happy for another FFA event.
> Yeah, I think they should do this every year, like MLG did back in the day. A 4v4 Global Championships would be nice, it would be cool to see some old teams coming back, such as <mark>status quo</mark>. They should do this again with Halo 4 next year, around the same time, get people pumped for Halo 5, it would be awesome. Just make it a yearly event, as competitive Halo has made Halo what it is today.
lol SQ never went anywhere, they still play at AGL
NO Global Championship please. Once it got started, it was all they cared about, and people managed to cheat in it anyways. We got no new content, and no matchmaking updates during the time that the GC was going on.
It was a great and cool event, but they should have spend that big number of money for dedicated servers. Would also make the online qualification a lot more fair.
In a 4vs4 championship it would be teams like ambush and other pro teams that would win, no chance for normal Halo players.
> NO Global Championship please. Once it got started, it was all they cared about, and people managed to cheat in it anyways. We got no new content, and no matchmaking updates during the time that the GC was going on.
Sadly I have to agree. I can’t remember any interesting changes during Global Championship or the -Yoink!- gaming thing last December (or when ever it was).
> > NO Global Championship please. Once it got started, it was all they cared about, and people managed to cheat in it anyways. We got no new content, and no matchmaking updates during the time that the GC was going on.
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> Sadly I have to agree. I can’t remember any interesting changes during Global Championship or the -Yoink!- gaming thing last December (or when ever it was).
You do understand that only a small amount of players cheated in the online qualifiers (with most removed from the leaderboard), and no one cheated during the actual finals. No offense, but would it be that hard to give up a few weeks MAX of updates for another GC that thousands of people would enjoy? I’m willing to bet far more people tuned into the GC than actually played Halo on Sunday. Maybe it’s just me but the idea of “I get nothing from the tournament so it should go away” seems pretty selfish to me.
> > > NO Global Championship please. Once it got started, it was all they cared about, and people managed to cheat in it anyways. We got no new content, and no matchmaking updates during the time that the GC was going on.
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> > Sadly I have to agree. I can’t remember any interesting changes during Global Championship or the -Yoink!- gaming thing last December (or when ever it was).
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> You do understand that only a small amount of players cheated in the online qualifiers (with most removed from the leaderboard), and no one cheated during the actual finals. No offense, but would it be that hard to give up a few weeks MAX of updates for another GC that thousands of people would enjoy? I’m willing to bet far more people tuned into the GC than actually played Halo on Sunday. Maybe it’s just me but the idea of “I get nothing from the tournament so it should go away” seems pretty selfish to me.
I’m fine with the tournament going on, in fact I’m all for it but I just fail to see why 343 failed to give us any worthwhile updates in the meantime. I highly doubt they spent 24-7 on Global Championship.
> > > NO Global Championship please. Once it got started, it was all they cared about, and people managed to cheat in it anyways. We got no new content, and no matchmaking updates during the time that the GC was going on.
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> > Sadly I have to agree. I can’t remember any interesting changes during Global Championship or the -Yoink!- gaming thing last December (or when ever it was).
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> You do understand that only a small amount of players cheated in the online qualifiers (with most removed from the leaderboard), and no one cheated during the actual finals. No offense, but would it be that hard to give up a few weeks MAX of updates for another GC that thousands of people would enjoy? I’m willing to bet far more people tuned into the GC than actually played Halo on Sunday. Maybe it’s just me but the idea of “I get nothing from the tournament so it should go away” seems pretty selfish to me.
That wasn’t the logic I put behind my post, but I do see where you are coming from. Yes, it was a small amount of players that cheated, and they were removed. The fact still exists that it was possible to cheat in. And the population showed how few people actually participated in the event to begin with. Most of the population continued to play IS and BTIS. At best there were probably, what, 1200 people on the GC playlist at one singular point? The least 343i could’ve done was given some bug fixes or some playlist rotation during the GC, but we didn’t even get that. All they did was update the GC playlist so it supported a different FFA gametype variant for that coming week. Bulletins were littered with info about stuff most of us already knew or didn’t care about. I don’t even think there was a Screenshot Spotlight during those weeks that the GC was active. They did nothing to support those who were playing outside of the GC, and that’s why I believe they shouldn’t host another one.
> > > > NO Global Championship please. Once it got started, it was all they cared about, and people managed to cheat in it anyways. We got no new content, and no matchmaking updates during the time that the GC was going on.
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> > > Sadly I have to agree. I can’t remember any interesting changes during Global Championship or the -Yoink!- gaming thing last December (or when ever it was).
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> > You do understand that only a small amount of players cheated in the online qualifiers (with most removed from the leaderboard), and no one cheated during the actual finals. No offense, but would it be that hard to give up a few weeks MAX of updates for another GC that thousands of people would enjoy? I’m willing to bet far more people tuned into the GC than actually played Halo on Sunday. Maybe it’s just me but the idea of “I get nothing from the tournament so it should go away” seems pretty selfish to me.
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> That wasn’t the logic I put behind my post, but I do see where you are coming from. Yes, it was a small amount of players that cheated, and they were removed. The fact still exists that it was possible to cheat in. And the population showed how few people actually participated in the event to begin with. Most of the population continued to play IS and BTIS. At best there were probably, what, 1200 people on the GC playlist at one singular point? The least 343i could’ve done was given some bug fixes or some playlist rotation during the GC, but we didn’t even get that. All they did was update the GC playlist so it supported a different FFA gametype variant for that coming week. Bulletins were littered with info about stuff most of us already knew or didn’t care about. I don’t even think there was a Screenshot Spotlight during those weeks that the GC was active. They did nothing to support those who were playing outside of the GC, and that’s why I believe they shouldn’t host another one.
Of course people are going to play default playlists over the competition playlist but as I mentioned earlier, it was likely many more people watched the finals as opposed to played Halo on Sunday. I can agree that updates to the game would have been nice over the last few weeks, but I would hate to see a second Global Championship cancelled and all the hype it brings killed off just in the name of a few weekly updates.
> That wasn’t the logic I put behind my post, but I do see where you are coming from. Yes, it was a small amount of players that cheated, and they were removed. The fact still exists that it was possible to cheat in. And the population showed how few people actually participated in the event to begin with. Most of the population continued to play IS and BTIS. At best there were probably, what, 1200 people on the GC playlist at one singular point? The least 343i could’ve done was given some bug fixes or some playlist rotation during the GC, but we didn’t even get that. <mark>All they did was update the GC playlist so it supported a different FFA gametype variant for that coming week.</mark> Bulletins were littered with info about stuff most of us already knew or didn’t care about. I don’t even think there was a Screenshot Spotlight during those weeks that the GC was active. They did nothing to support those who were playing outside of the GC, and that’s why I believe they shouldn’t host another one.
Since July 15th, the first day of the Global Championship, they :
-Released, and tweaked Legendary Slayer, as well as releasing Legendary BRs.
-Released, and tweaked the Champions Bundle DLC playlist, along with it’s accompanying title update.
-Removed, and reintroduced, Rumble Pit.
-Moved Regicide to Rumble Pit
-Changed up the maps in the Grifball playlist.
-Tweaked the settings to the Lockdown gametype.
-Not to mention the weekly rotation of Spartan Ops episodes.
-Swapped around the rotational DLC playlist, twice.
-Can’t forget RTX!
As for the ‘Screenshot Spotlight’, only one bulletin since the start of the GC didn’t have one, and it was the most recent.
So how was their focus solely on the Global Championship, exactly?
> Since July 15th, the first day of the Global Championship, they :
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> -Released, and tweaked Legendary Slayer, as well as releasing Legendary BRs.
> -Released, and tweaked the Champions Bundle DLC playlist, along with it’s accompanying title update.
> -Removed, and reintroduced, Rumble Pit.
> -Moved Regicide to Rumble Pit
> -Changed up the maps in the Grifball playlist.
> -Tweaked the settings to the Lockdown gametype.
> -Not to mention the weekly rotation of Spartan Ops episodes.
> -Swapped around the rotational DLC playlist, twice.
> -Can’t forget RTX!
-I thought that was released a week before the GC. That is my bad.
-This was towards the end of the GC, and was released as planned when they originally announced it with the GC announcement.
-I don’t recall seeing Rumble Pit until after it was all over and done with.
-And many felt this was a wrong move.
-This explains why all I see in Grifball now is Thin Ice and Hangar 101.
-I never played Lockdown, so I didn’t notice anything related to it.
-That’s a given, and there’s nothing new, just some random selected chapters set to Legendary difficulty (still quite easy to complete).
-All I saw for 4 weeks straight was Crimson DLC. It only went away when the Champion’s Bundle came out (visual error, perhaps?)
-True.
All of this is from my personal perspective. I am not afraid to admit I only read and look at what I want to read and look at, however many of this info you have posted I didn’t notice. I just ignored RTX I could be partially blind, and need a check up, or something on my end is screwed up.
Legendary was released the same week as the GC playlist, the switch from Majestic to Crimson also took place at that time.
Granted, the re-adding of Rumble Pit took place the same week the GC playlist was removed, but that was not before the finals this past weekend. While a lot of the changes were probably pre-planned, it still takes an allocation of resources and someone to flip the metaphorical ‘switch’
Honestly, I’d rather see the return of something like the Sarkathalon, remember those insane obstacle courses in Halo 3 people would attempt to beat in the fastest time for prizes? Wouldn’t have the same fanfare as a Global Championship, but it’d be a cool thing for the community whilst taking little effort from the 343i team.
I wouldn’t mind seeing a big 4v4 tournament like the H4GC. The live broadcast was really well done and if I didn’t just get back home from being in a car for 16 hours I would have gone. If they do though you may as well pencil in Ambush and Requiem.
I could be partially blind, and need a check up, or something on my end is screwed up.