Over the past few days, the final Halo Championship Series Summer Matches took place, pitting some of the biggest eSports teams against each other in carefully crafted matches to determine who would come out on top. The competition worked on a bracket system and was limited to North American teams. The matches began on July 30th and in the end, plenty of great teams went home to prepare to compete in the Fall Season. You can catch up on all of the great HCS matches on Halo’s official Twitch channel.
All of this culminated in an exhilarating match between relative newcomers Enigma6 (encompassing Huke, bubu dubu, Cratos, and Shooter) and the legendary Counter Logic Gaming (Lethul, Snakebite, Frosty, and Royal2). The two teams faced off with Capture the Flag on Fathom, and CLG pulled up with a single flag capture, leaving the score 1-0 as CLG took home first place. But, if you’re an Enigma6 fan, or a fan of most of the other eSports teams that participated here, you’ll be pleased to know that plenty of teams, despite not winning here, will be going forward to the Fall Season. The question is still up in the air if anyone can stop CLG’s winning streak? You can check out all of the teams advancing on HaloWaypoint.com, along with plenty of other eSports information to catch you up.
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RTX is one of the many gaming conventions of the year, but is probably the most rooted in the Halo community at large with the involvement of Rooster Teeth’s Red vs Blue and Grifball. This year, 343 was able to attend after last year they missed last year with Gamescom happening the same time as RTX. Leading up to RTX, Warzone Firefight along with new maps and REQs became available as Halo 5’s last guaranteed free content update. With the Halo Wars 2 beta recently concluded, the Halo panel was opened up with some gameplay statistics, followed by a look into upcoming Forge and content browser updates, and a first look into the Halo Legendary Crate! The 405th were also in full force at the convention along with Grifball Hub who had their own separate streaming stage and Grifball championship!
With E3 came the official trailer for Halo Wars 2 and a few other interesting platform announcements for Xbox Live and Xbox One. Xbox revealed a new console, controller studio and the Play Anywhere program allowing buy once and play on Xbox One or Windows 10, which Halo Wars 2 is a part of. The Xbox Press Brief also kicked off the Halo Wars 2 beta on Xbox One featuring Domination and Deathmatch, and Strongholds for those in attendance at E3. There are promising prospects for the sequel to one of the most requested games of the franchise and we’re here to give you our thoughts.
Thanks to all of the support from the Halo community, the Halo Bowl was a big success. In addition to crowning Drunken Halo the champions of the tournament, we raised over $1600 for Gamers Outreach to partially fund a GO Kart. After E3, we all got together to recap our experience in the tournament and we’re pleased to have Zach Wigal, founder of 
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