CAL, The CyberAthlete Amateur League, is now accepting Halo 2 teams for competition. They've also opened a Halo 2 forum. Thanks rapture at Cooked Gamers.

Frankie's finally given in to reality and posted about Bungie's loss in last week's Humpday Challenge; The Bungie.net Mods team of Shishka, Yoozel, Stoshy and (sort of) Payneful defeated Frankie, AGDTinman and Negabyte. Thanks to akba for the heads-up.

[image:8816 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0] BOLL has created a set of panoramic views of Halo 2, using a TV capture card, a modified controller, and the blind skull. Check it out over at HBO.

... flood spores smell funny, and so do you. Fancy yourself a rhymin' fool as well as a Bungie fan and you could win in The Junkyard's Write a Poem for Bungie Contest. First place includes a strategy guide, hat and t-shirt, a Master Chief action figure and 5000 Junkyard Store credits. Contest begins November 29, 2004. Thanks mrsmiley.

Mister Chief returns with a new toy in a guest Halo Babies strip by BOLL. Thanks mrsmiley.

Slashdot has a post up today where a Creative Writing major asks about tools for machinima; it mentions Halo and Sims 2; both of which are used by Rooster Teeth Productions to make Red vs Blue and The Strangerhood, respectively.

The ingestion of large amounts of tryptophan seem to have taken their toll here at Rampancy, so we're going to be reduced to doing a news roundup again-- hopefully the last one between now and... well.. Christmas.

SketchFactor has posted in the Bungie.net forum that all existing Halo 2 XBL playlists are being revised, and new ones will be created, including one for all team slayer, all the time. The new lists should come out, subject to change, after the Thanksgiving holiday. Thanks MikeMan445.

[image:8794 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0] KP has posted up some photos of the setup he created to play Halo 2 in the HBO forum, and invited others to do likewise.

Stuntmutt today praises Halo 2's surround sound, but points out a sound that might have been added to good effect.

Halo Babies is being invaded by fan art-- more than a dozen new entries today. Thanks mrsmiley.

Online comic Dork Tower shows what happens when Halo fans and grunge fans collide... uncomfortably.

Shadow Panther has put an almost painful amount of detail concerning Halo 2's weapons into a series of tables that keep track of how many shots and how much time each individual weapon and dual wield combo takes to kill a fully shielded target, broken down into head and body shots. He's also done a page where he ranks each weapon according to effectiveness.