Louis Wu at HBO has announced the winners of the Date With One One Se7en contest that challenged forumgoers to use the automagic strip generator to finish the a joke. You can see the winners and runners-up as well.
Gary "Dolbex" Williams of Been Mawed and Halo50k3.com is announcing a new Halo tournament, Halo50k3, will be held on July 24 and 25, 2004, in Atlanta, Georgia, and will be presented by Major League Gaming.
According to their press release, these are the tournament details:
Louis Wu at HBO notes that the submission period for the Win A Date With One One Se7en contest is now over; there were 3500 entries that now need to be narrowed down to 5 Halo 2 calendar winners by Wednesday. Wow.
Louis Wu mentioned in the HBO forum that there are a lot of entries for the Win A Date With One One Se7en contest currently going on at HBO, and not a few are not making the cut because submitters are not following the directions. In short:
That is all.
A recent forum thread at HBO challenged forum users to complete a joke started in a One One Se7en panel using the new AutoMagic 117 StripzMaker (now with even more templates).
Now that's been turned into an official HBO contest, with five copies of the special edition Halo 2 calendar, courtesy of the Arbuthnot Entertainment Group, to the creators of the best punch lines.
...because you won't need it to watch HaloTV, a new project by the guys at cookedgamers, rapture and synide.
The service streams various Halo movies, and in addition did a live broadcast of the CAL season finals between xeno and Gamers Paradise.
The BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) area during the CPL World Championships is full up, so they are adding another 300 first-come, first-served spots.
Thanks cookedgamers.
With 21 teams registered so far, there are 11 spots still available for CPL's Halo PC tournament this summer (the one with the $50,000 prize purse). Thanks cookedgamers.
Flexibility in gaming has been an often-discussed topic for quite awhile, but this is extreme: you show up for this LANfest on Long Island, and they lock you in so you can't leave until ten hours later. That's extreme, which is why they call it an X Tournament, I guess. The day after the LANfest, there's a tournament. Thanks Louis Wu.
HBO's Louis Wu pointed out a Halo multiplayer strategy guide by Kris Hull, who apparently knows a secret or two about Marathon, if the URL is to be believed. At the end of the guide is an interesting little glossary; I think Mulganistan borders Kazakhstan somewhere. They only play Counter Strike.
BGH pointed out an article at Halo Phenom documenting how, as has been done to countless PC-based shooters before it, modified maps, models and textures are being applied to PC Halo to give players what might euphemistically be called an unfair advantage. Cheating, that is.
The article contains URLs to some pictures that show such modified maps, models and textures.
Major League Gaming has revised their event schedule for March-June, 2004. Each event begins on the 4th of the month; originally the order began with San Fransisco in March, then Dallas, L.A. and Boston.
The new order is Dallas, Boston, L.A. and then San Fransisco.
UPDATE:We've been informed that there's yet another schedule change, that the next event is in April, and we should have a new schedule again soon.
HBO forumgoer 'Nosolee went to the MGL event in Philadelphia this past week and reported back on his experiences. Basically he found a bunch of people far more serious about Halo than he thought he'd find.
The results are in from the Major League Gaming Philly Eastern Regional. Here are the results from the Halo events:
Halo Free For All:
Halo 4 vs. 4 Team Competition:
Ross Mills of Subnova recently won a quiz contest on Eric Trautmann's blog. Trautmann is the guy at Microsoft who coordinates with the authors of the Halo novels, Eric Nylund and William Dietz.
Today his impressive prize package arrived; check out his forum thread at HBO for the skinny on what loot he made off with.