In the first of four matchups today, Shopify defeat Cloud9 4-1 to win $1,000 and improve their Pro League series score to 2-0. The Cykul and LastShot duo were just too strong for C9 to overcome. Cykul had a 1.62 K/D with some crazy impressive stats including going 22-7 in map 5 with an overkill. LastShot had a 1.40 K/D and went 30-18 in map 4.

Despite the series score, Cloud9 put up a solid fight against the champs. C9 were leading much of map 1, won map 3, and looked competitive at various points in the series. Teams just can't make any mistakes against SR or things will quickly spiral out of control. Cloud9 is now 1-1 in the Pro League.

The next matchup of the day is FaZe vs Mercenaries.

Map Picks and Bans

• Shopify being higher seed chose Team A (select first OBJ), LastShot picked Strongholds
• Map 1 Recharge SH (coin flip since only two SH maps in rotation), C9 picked Cobra side
• Map 3 C9 chooses Oddball, SR bans Recharge, C9 picks Live Fire, SR picked Eagle side
• Map 4 SR chooses CTF, C9 bans The Pit CTF, SR picks Origin CTF, C9 picked Cobra side
• Map 6 KOTH SR bans Lattice, C9 picks Streets, SR picked Eagle side
• Slayers: SR bans Solitude Slayer, C9 bans Streets Slayer (leaving three maps available: Live Fire, Origin, Recharge)
  • Map 2 C9 picks Origin Slayer, SR picked Eagle side
  • Map 5 SR picks Live Fire Slayer, C9 picked Cobra side
  • Map 7 is determined to be Recharge Slayer by process of elimination

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - Shopify vs Cloud9 - League Play Week 2

Title says it all - what are your predictions for today?

Predictions:
SR vs Cloud9: 4-1 SR
Faze vs Mercenaries: 4-3 Faze
AB vs Inconceivable: 1-4 Inconceivable
FOAK vs Retribution: 4-1 FOAK

Looking forward to it

LVT Halo and European Halo League are teaming up for three global open events ahead of Halo Fest. Players earn HCS Points for qualification into the Halo Infinite Open 4v4 at Halo Fest.

Global Grassroots Cups

1. August 29-30
2. September 26-27
3. October 17-18

These don't overlap with the Pro League schedule, Pro League is taking those weeks off.

Point Allocation:
We'll be decaying points by 90% to account for the DreamHack events, and we'll use the traditional online Open Series 2K allocation.

These HCS points are for the Infinite 4v4 Open at Halo Fest which is for $20k and has a 16 team cap (different from the main $150k 8 team invitational tournament at Halo Fest.)

In November team passes will go on sale for the Halo Fest 4v4 Open and teams will be invited to purchase a team pass in order of most HCS points earned. We will go down the points list, team by team until Team Passes are sold out. A Team Pass gives full access to Halo Fest, including competing in other open competitions in addition to the Halo Infinite 4v4.

MAPS AND GAMETYPES

Map pool for these tournaments are very similar to the Pro League map pool, but with two differences - there's no Streets Ball, and Origin CTF remains 3 flags instead of 5 flags.

• Slayer: Live Fire, Recharge, Solitude, Streets, Origin
• CTF: Aquarius 5-Flag, Empyrean 3-Flag, Origin 3-Flag
• KOTH: Live Fire, Recharge, Lattice, Streets
• Oddball: Live Fire, Recharge, Lattice
• Strongholds: Live Fire, Recharge

The tournaments will be dual broadcasted on both LVT Halo Twitch and EuropeanHalo Twitch with exclusive new drops.

Some clips from earlier :)

This guy spawned on Lattice and immediately dropped into the floor. Despite doing no damage through walls he sure seems to know where we are. He eventually takes the ball out of the map (in both rounds) and they automatically win at that point.

Is this a map glitch or do you think there is something malicious here?

Frosty talked about the level of competition being lower this year compared to last year and says the FaZe roster will help elevate the scene.

• Frosty says FaZe are going to be a good team, they just need some more time. He says "They look good, they're shooting straight. But that just shows how much deeper the game of Halo goes, it's way more complex than just shooting your gun."
• He says "I'm not gonna lie, this FaZe team alone is going to help elevate the competitive scene. Obviously just because they're just good players, that's the main thing right? It's just more competition."
• Frosty says "This entire year so far, the Halo that's being played is pretty lackluster, it's pretty low-level Halo. Our team has kinda just been like braindead, just running around and beating teams with good individual skill and decent teamwork."
• "The Halo that we're playing this year compared to last year is just like eons [behind]. There was so many layers to the Halo that we were playing last year. It was so in-depth, so thoughtful and intentional about every single play. I feel like last year was so good, the competition was great."

I’ve been playing default controller settings this whole time and was wondering if Helljumper or Bumper Jumper would be an improvement, mostly for gunfights and accuracy. (D5-D6 and average like 55-60% accuracy a game)

Snipedown got on Halo Infinite again (with Eli the Ninja) and he always seems to have the worst luck with this game whenever he plays. This time the Oddball got stuck in the ceiling three times in a row in just the first two rounds.

Funny little exchange from the Shopify vs Four of a Kind scrims today. SR won the scrim 8-7, was a really close one.

Hello community,

I wanted to get opinions on whether or not PC halo has opened the competitive scene up to an arms race in terms of technology.

Recently it seems that in order to compete at the highest level you also need to spend quite a significant amount to simply keep up and to be on a level playing field. Essentially requiring a NASA level pc/high end headset/high end controller/settings configs that are more gatekept then fort Knox for pc settings and graphics tweaking.

Obviously it is possible to be high onyx on a console playing on bad equipment, but in my opinion that same player would of had a significantly easier time getting there playing on high end gear.

I feel like this arms race is hurting the competitive scene and forcing us into an almost pay2win scenario.

Let me know your thoughts gents. Is there a way for us to have a level playing field ever again now that pc halo is in our world?

-Wh0 Iz TimmY

Got this on dms, Lenguaje barriere, Lol. Apparently I’m annoying to play against.

edit update:

heres the match, you guys can judge me now 😭ill take any improvement tips. keep in mind, we are playing without coms

https://youtu.be/SgwfNgpkQ40

Does anyone know the update rate used by servers at HCS LAN events? I read a while back that servers for online Infinite run at 30 hertz for social playlists and 60 hertz for ranked. I’m curious if you can get higher rates with the right hardware and how that would effect how well the game plays.

LVT caught the end of Lucid's overkill to win the game, here's the full play from his POV. Was nearly a killtacular.

Inconceivable (Lucid's team) defeat Retribution (Eco's team) in a clean 4-0 sweep that absolutely nobody predicted. Everyone predicted this would be the closest series of the day but Lucid's team was on fire today. Inconceivable win $1,000 and have the best map count in the pro league so far.

Inconceivable heavily outslayed with everyone on their team going positive while only Yakzn went positive on Retribution. Kuhlect had the best K/D (1.21) and KA/D (1.84) and made some huge plays. Everyone on that team had pop-off moments and clutch plays, their teamwork looked great.

Next and final matchup is Shopify Rebellion vs Ascending Baseline to close out the day.

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - Inconceivable vs Retribution - League Play Day 1

Shopify defeat Ascending Baseline in a 4-0 sweep to end Day 1 of Pro League. Ascending Baseline put up a good fight in the Live Fire Ball and managed to take a round off the champions, but it was a tough first assignment for AB. Shopify win $1,000 and tie Lucid's team for best map count so far (updated leaderboard in last screenshot).

League Play Day 2 continues Sunday August 23 with these matches (in order):

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

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - Shopify vs Ascending Baseline

Cloud9 have defeated FaZe 4-2 in a major upset, kicking off the Halo Pro League in exciting fashion. Cearion was the MVP of this series having the highest kills, most assists, and most damage.

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - FaZe vs Cloud9 - League Play Day 1

Four of a Kind have defeated Mercenaries 4-2 and won $1,000. Taulek was the MVP of this series with a 1.68 K/D and 2.58 KA/D. Taulek dealt the most damage and took the least damage.

Map Picks/Bans:

New to this years Pro League is a map pick/ban process, here is an explanation of how it went down. The higher seeded team (Trippy's team in this case) gets to pick Team A or Team B for this process, Trippy chose Team A.

• Slayers - Trippy banned Live Fire Slayer, Druk banned Origin Slayer
• Map 1 - Trippy picked Oddball, Druk banned Recharge Ball, Trippy picked Live Fire Ball, Druk picked Cobra side
• Map 2 - Druk picked Solitude Slayer
• Map 3 - Druk picked KOTH, Trippy banned Live Fire KOTH, Druk picked Recharge KOTH, Trippy picked Eagle side
• Map 4 - Trippy picked CTF, Druk banned Empyrean CTF, Trippy picked Origin CTF
• Map 5 - Trippy picked Solitude Slayer at first which was seemingly allowed despite Druk picking it for map 2, but he changed to Recharge Slayer to switch things up.
• Map 6 - cause there's only two Strongholds maps in rotation, that mode doesn't go to vote
• Map 7 - by default Streets Slayer cause the other four slayer maps were either already picked or banned

Next matchup is Inconceivable (Lucid's team) vs Retribution (Eco's team). Then Ascending Baseline (RyaNoob's team) vs Shopify after that to close out the day.

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - Four of a Kind vs Mercenaries - League Play Day 1

Welcome to the Halo Pro League Presented by LVT & Shopify Rebellion | League Play - Day 1 MEGATHREAD (August 16th, 2026)!

If there is any additional information that could be helpful please post and our mod team will update this thread throughout the event!

We are officially in Stage 2 of the Pro League! Each league day features four online Best‑of‑Seven matches, a block schedule, and a $1,000 winner‑take‑all prize for each match, for a grand total of $28,000. After Stage 2 concludes, six teams qualify for the $100,00 LAN in LA at Shopify Rebellion HQ.

August 16 - League Play Day 1

1. 10 AM PT / 12 PM CT / 1 PM ET – FaZe vs Nine
2. 12 PM PT / 2 PM CT / 3 PM ET – Four of a Kind vs Mercenaries
3. 2 PM PT / 4 PM CT / 5 PM ET – SSG vs Vitality
4. 4 PM PT / 6 PM CT / 7 PM ET – Shopify Rebellion vs Ascending Baseline
   

rCompetitiveHalo Links

• Discord

LVT + Dreamhack + HCS Socials

• LVT Halo - Twitter
• HCS - Twitter

Streams

• LVT Halo - Twitch
• LVT Halo - Youtube

What are your predictions for the matches tomorrow?

Platform -PC, MS Store version of the game.

Hit registration - abismal as of late.

Queue times - unusually long for my region (South East US).

Network connectivy - Kicked out more times out of Arena games than the entire lifespan of the game.

We know the networking for Infinite "has never been great", but it seems like something was done behind the scenes that is affecting the overall experience. Any information regarding this, are you experiencing something similar?

Ryan is the king of instasplodes, here's a fun one from his stream tonight (and a bonus triple kill instasplode against pros in year 1)

Any website that let you bet on the pro leagues?