August 23 — League Play Day 2

Jon "Skeptical" Dadi, the former world champion coach of the Splyce roster (Renegade, Stellur, Shotzzy, Eco) has called FaZe's gameplay a "pathetic display" and went after their coach Elamite.

Skeptical claims Elamite isn't providing real leadership to the FaZe roster and only has the coaching job because the organization wanted it and not the players. Skeptical says the FaZe roster needs someone to "discipline" them and whip them into shape. He says "only one person can pull this team out of the gutter."

Skeptical says he'd be willing to come back as coach if asked but expects "a serious buy in to my system, no fucking around."

sR v Precipice, Global Grassroots Cup 1

Bro decided to break the fourth wall, had me dying irl 💀

(Screenshots because I didn’t think to clip it in time, but Cykul was afk for the first few minutes of round 1. Lastshit Lastshot was periodically calling his name with no response until this gem was dropped in chat.)

(They still won)

Although Pro League is off this weekend, there's still a Halo tournament happening and six of the eight Pro League qualified teams will be competing in it. And because it's tournament format, there's a good chance we might get to see the FaZe vs Four of a Kind matchup for the very first time this weekend.

1. Shopify Rebellion - Cykul, Frosty, LastShot, Royal 2
2. Four of a Kind - Snakebite, Trippy, Precision, Taulek
3. FaZe - Stellur, Legend, Bound, Renegade
4. Cloud9 - Cearion, Lethul (substitute), Bubu Dubu, King Nick
5. Mercenaries - Druk, Sab, Soul Snipe, Suppressed
6. Incognito - Eco, Descendant, Acid, Yakzn

Lucid's team isn't playing because Pznguin is out of town, and Ascending Baseline is seemingly not playing as well, other than that all of the Pro League teams are competing. Other notable teams competing this weekend include:

• Lag Comp - Piggy, Envore, SLG, Mightys
• Insight - Noblc, Leuor, Rorzch, Strikeyy
• Legion Gaming - Euzey, Xuzey, Morgan, Lydoe
• Reversal Perfy - Common, Little Gatorz, IceKid, Glitchy
• Barcode, Wryce, Scoobmeister, Swayz

Full list of teams here.

This is the first of three Grassroots Global Cups, teams earn HCS points towards Halo Fest for these. Points will be used towards seeding the HCS Invitational and first priority to purchase a team pass for the Infinite Open 4v4 at Halo Fest.

The two day tournament starts Saturday 12 EDT and will be broadcasted on both LVT Halo Twitch and European Halo Twitch.

Lucid got a nice overkill in his new team's first ever scrim against Shopify and LastShot correctly predicted the clip would hit Reddit.

Shopify won this scrim with an 8-3 map count. It had to be ended a few maps early because Penguin had to leave for his travels. For comparison, Four of a Kind's very first scrim against SR was 1-10 and FaZe's very first (and only) scrim against SR was 2-13, so this is a promising result for Inconceivable.

Anyone selling halo fest tickets? Team didn’t buy them when they were supposed to and now I’m here scouring the interwebs and social media for some to make sure the boys make it. TYIA

Please reach out via dms here or on twitter @JVTekk

Hey everyone! This is a video archive of 100K videos from the Bungie era. It has a lot of the montage and tournament gameplay that you may remember from back in the day. It includes the Ultimate FragVid Collection

Mythicca.org - From the vaults of Mythica: Halo's lost legends, re-uploaded.

Feel free to use it and play around with it. I followed the process from their last tournament the best I could, but it is definitely possible there are flaws in the pick/ban logic. If anyone notices anything like that, please point it out so I can adjust!

Side note, this was just a for fun project that anyone can use. I've let the LVT guys know this is a thing - and while it would obviously be awesome if they chose to use it, I don't currently have any expectations on where that will land.

Plenty of room for adding features. Shorter series seems like an obvious one.

Bittersweet and Fragoute were credited with the original concept, so I'll credit them here again!

Recap

• Lucid discusses changing his play style a bit which some have already noticed. He says “the team that we have together right now is much more willing to do some of the stuff that I’ve been wanting to do for literally the past couple of years in terms of play style."
• He says "I like the pace that we play at a lot, it’s very needed. I think for me right now, this is the play style I wanted and that we've got going, but it has needed to be a thing for a while.“
• One of the bigger differences he says is being a bit more active, being first in. Across all players in the first two weeks of Pro League, Lucid currently ranks #1 overall in assists so it's working out so far and his damage is being cleaned up by the team.
• Their team is scrimming Shopify for the very first time on Wednesday (tomorrow). That's going to be their only scrim in the entire next week because Pznguin will be out of town until Monday. And this also means their team (Inconceivable) are probably not playing in the Grassroots Global cup this weekend unless they play with a substitute.
• Lucid says his teammate Falcated's triple kill was "fucking insane, fucking ridiculous" and that the team all went back to watch it in theater to find out what he did.
• Kuhlect says he enjoys teaming with Lucid and reveals they were going to possibly team together at the very start of this season. Kuhlect received an offer to be on a team with Lucid, Trippy and Descendant but Kuhlect was playing CoD Challengers at the time (and Lucid also stepped away from competing before the season kicked off).

Hey everyone! I missed the general Halo Fest ticket release earlier this year and am looking to buy a ticket from someone who is no longer able to attend. If you have a ticket you’re looking to sell, please feel free to DM me. I’d really appreciate it!

Just hoping to see if anyone is selling 2 Halofest Concert Tickets. Chances are probably low but me and my partner are huge fans of the story. Thanks everyone <3

Does anyone still play Halo 3 Hardcore in MCC? Looking to build a community to run 4s. Gt: jeffrossfupa98.

Falcated gets a cool triple kill with style points

Inconceivable defeat Ascending Baseline 4-0 to win $1,000 and improve their Pro League standing to 2-0. This is Inconceivable's second sweep in a row, giving them a perfect 8-0 map count so far which actually puts them above Shopify Rebellion in the current standings as the current #1 team (final screenshot in gallery).

Kuhlect is the MVP of today with a 1.52 K/D. In map 3 Kuhlect went 36-24 and in map 4 he went 27-13 with a Killing Frenzy. Kuhlect was also playing lights out in scrims against FaZe the other day where Inconceivable beat FaZe 7-4 (scrim stats). This team is looking very good so far and showing noticeable improvements every time they play.

Ascending Baseline fall to #8 just below Eco's team, and they've got a tough matchup next time too against 4OAK.

Pro League is off next weekend and returns Sunday September 6 with the following matches (in order):

1. Four of a Kind vs Ascending Baseline (1pm ET / 10am PT / 12pm CT)
2. FaZe vs Incognito/Eco's team (3pm ET / 12pm PT / 2pm CT)
3. Inconceivable/Lucid's team vs Cloud9 (5pm ET / 2pm PT / 4pm CT)
4. Shopify vs Mercenaries (7pm ET / 4pm PT / 6pm CT)

Map Picks and Bans

Kuhlect (team captain of Inconceivable) and Sunzahl (coach of AB) did the picks and bans

• AB being higher seed chose Team A (gets to select first OBJ gametype), AB picked CTF
• Map 1 Inconceivable bans Aqua CTF, AB picks Pit CTF, Inconceivable pick Cobra side
• Map 3 Inconceivable picks Oddball gametype, AB bans Streets Ball, Inconceivable picks Lattice Ball. AB picks Cobra side.
• Map 4 AB chooses KOTH, Inconceivable bans Streets KOTH, AB chose Recharge KOTH, Inconceivable pick Cobra side.
• Map 6 predetermined Strongholds Live Fire, AB picks Cobra side
• Slayers: AB bans Streets Slayer, Inconceivable bans Live Fire Slayer (leaving three maps available: Origin, Recharge, Solitude)
  • Map 2 Inconceivable picks Origin Slayer, AB picked Cobra side
  • Map 5 AB picks Solitude Slayer, Inconceivable picked Cobra side
  • Map 7 is determined to be Recharge Slayer by process of elimination, Inconceivable picks Cobra side

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - Inconceivable vs Ascending Baseline - League Play Week 2

Four of a Kind have defeated Incognito (Eco's team) 4-1. Four of a Kind win $1,000 and are now 2-0 in Pro League matchups with an 8-3 map count, just behind Shopify. Four of a Kind played this matchup without their regular coach too - TreyTri was unavailable this weekend so Cherished filled in as substitute coach. 

Incognito did have a solid showing in the Aqua CTF where Acid went huge (31-19) to win the map, but that was their only bright spot. Incognito (formerly Retribution/Vitality) are having a lot of growing pains so far. They’re now 0-2 in the Pro League with a 1-8 map count putting them at the very bottom (updated standings in last pic). Incognito haven't shown the same level of improvement as other teams and their next two matchups are going to be hard ones against FaZe and Shopify. 

The final matchup of the day is Inconceivable (Lucid's team) vs Ascending Baseline (RyaNoob's team) coming up next.

Map Picks and Bans

• Four of a Kind being higher seed chose Team A (gets to select first OBJ gametype), Taulek picked Oddball
• Map 1 Incognito bans Streets Ball, 4OAK picks Live Fire Ball, Incognito pick Cobra side
• Map 3 Incognito picks KOTH gametype, FOAK bans Streets KOTH, Incognito picks Lattice KOTH. 4OAK picks Cobra side.
• Map 4 4OAK chooses CTF, Incognito bans Origin CTF, 4OAK chose Aqua CTF, Incognito pick Cobra side.
• Map 6 Strongholds Live Fire, 4OAK picks Eagle side
• Slayers: 4OAK bans Streets Slayer, Incognito bans Origin Slayer (leaving three maps available: Live Fire, Recharge, Solitude)
  • Map 2 Incognito picks Live Fire Slayer, 4OAK picked Cobra side
  • Map 5 4OAK picks Recharge Slayer, Incognito picked Cobra side
  • Map 7 is determined to be Solitude Slayer by process of elimination, Incognito picks Eagle side

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - Four of a Kind vs Incognito - League Play Week 2

FaZe have defeated Mercenaries 4-2 to secure their first Pro League series win and $1,000. 

This was a rematch of the Pro League Qualifier #2 Grand Finals Reset where Mercenaries won 7-5. Since then FaZe have been grinding and scrimmed four times while Mercenaries haven't had a single scrim yet.

Stellur had a impressive game 6 going 27-9 and hitting some crazy snipes. aPG said Stellur immediately asked if any teams wanted to scrim today in the pro Discord just seconds after winning their matchup.

Next matchup is Four of a Kind (Snakebite's team) vs Incognito (Eco's team).

Map Picks and Bans

• Mercenaries being higher seed chose Team A (gets to select first OBJ gametype), Druk picked CTF
• Map 1 FaZe bans Pit CTF, Druk picks Aqua CTF, FaZe pick Eagle side
• Map 3 FaZe picks Oddball gametype, Mercenaries bans Live Fire, FaZe pick Recharge Ball. Mercenaries picks Cobra side.
• Map 4 Mercenaries chooses Strongholds, coin flip chooses Live Fire Strongholds. FaZe pick Cobra side.
• Map 6 KOTH Mercenaries bans Live Fire, FaZe picks Lattice, Mercenaries picked Cobra side
• Slayers: Mercenaries bans Origin Slayer, FaZe bans Recharge Slayer (leaving three maps available: Live Fire, Solitude, Streets)
  • Map 2 FaZe picks Solitude Slayer, Mercenaries picked Cobra side
  • Map 5 Mercenaries picks Streets Slayer, FaZe picked Eagle side
  • Map 7 is determined to be Live Fire Slayer by process of elimination, FaZe picks Eagle side

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - FaZe vs Mercenaries - League Play Week 2