Kotaku: Fans Are Ripping The Halo World Championship For Its Shabby Venue

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Kotaku: Fans Are Ripping The Halo World Championship For Its Shabby Venue - NeoGAF

Link to the Kotaku Article I know a lot of people on here think 343/Microsoft catered to much to the esports scene with Halo 5 now, see how much MS only invests in the organizement of these tournament. Just for information, the tournament has a prizepool of 1,000,000$.  Here have a paragraph out of the article:

Nothing screams esports quite like some deflated balloons blowing in the wind and a lone family homesteading on some abandoned bleachers inside a tent. One Twitter conversation about the images, approaching Beckettian levels of eloquent absurdity, went like this: "This can't be real" "It could be worse. The mainstage could be shared with Just Dance." "That is not worse than this." "Even the balloons look like they don't want to be there." "Begging for someone to snip them loose." The contrast was so stark it drew comparisons to the year prior when the Halo Championship was held in Raleigh Studios Hollywood with a prize pool of over $2,500,000.

 

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choice pics, but in the article it goes indepth on it. As a invested fan of the competitive side of Halo this is hilarious but also so sad to see. Other Esport veterans are joking about the Halo tournament live on twitter
 

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Its pretty hilarious how bad this is. Compare this to COD World Champs, which is a very similar event and its embarrassing.

The worst is the picture of the tent people go in if they haven't got main stage tickets

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