On Monday May 8, registration for the Myth World Cup 2006 tournament opened up. Check their site for details on rules and teams.

The Tulkas Challenge is a Myth II Soulblighter Co-operative tournament being run in conjunction with PlayMyth.

Some Halo-related and not-so-Halo-related news for today:

Frankie was quick to point out (as usual) that the (disastrous) results of the latest Humpday Challenge are up at Bungie.net.

The Cayote Cavegirls took two games out of three against Bungie, with the second game being a draw due to a power outage. In the words of Frankie:

Voting has now begun in HBO's Haloween pumpkin-carving contest. Go get started, and be sure to click on the thumbnails and look at all the large images.

Bungie's Humpday Challenge is back after a long hiatus. The boys from Kirkland took on some random misfortunates in the new Team Snipers playlist and took two games out of three. The story is accompanied by the best animated GIF ever.

The top 117 entries in the 117 Words contest have been announced by Jillybean and Stuntmutt. Your editor was tickled pink to have managed a third-place tie with Tum-Tut Mantis' entry The Arbiter's Sentence. And it's mine! All mine! It's my birthday pressssent!

HBO pointed us to what the guys at TeamXbox have done to the Origen site-- namely, they found the XML file that contains the dialog between the two rabbits. It also reveals the first three of the four contests that will determine who gets to go to Origen. Places 5 and 6 will go to the top eligible Double Team playlist player and his or her usual partner. Unless you live in Portugal or Greece, apparently.

There are only three days left to submit entries into the 117 Words Halo fan fiction contest, as noted by One One Se7en author Stuntmutt in the HBO forum.

• Overswarm has added four more interviews (Vash, T Squared, Sergio, and Mack). Thanks HBO.
• Major Nelson points out a video interview with the developer of the Xbox 360 dashboard, as well as a reminder about this week's Frag Doll Friday event.

Joe "Dyslexia" Renaud has posted a writeup of the MLG Seattle tournament, som by IGS. Seattle was the last major qualifying MLG event before the Championship Series begins.

Thanks Louis Wu at HBO for the heads-up.

Over in MBO's Asulym forum, there's details from Psyched, including rules and brackets, for Myth Tournament 2005 (which is actually being played with Myth II). Thanks Gholsbane for the heads-up.

Halo Babies 101st comic urges you to drive safely and carry a large chameleon. Thanks, mrsmiley.

Psyched has announced that MariusNet and The Myth Jumpers will soon be holding a Myth 2 tournament called MAJORMATT 2005. Read about all the details in Bungie's Underground forum. Thanks MBO.