Halo 3 Planet

I am pleased to announce a Grifball tournament that we are planning to start sometime in early march. The tournament will consist of 6 round robin games (5 within conference and 1 outside of your conference), and an 8 team medal round. The finals will be a 3 game playoff, with both the winning and losing team receiving prizes.

Here is the forum where sign-ups and all other dealings with the tournament will take place.

And here is the rules thread in that forum. It is taken largely from Rooster Teeth’s league rules, but there are some key changes (prizes, etc).

We’re hoping for 20 total teams in the league, split into two conferences (named Hammer and Sword), so get your team in early. Preference will be given for active teams on the Rooster Teeth Grifball forums and active members of the Halo3Planet.com forums.

Prizes are as follows:

1. The first place team’s roster during the final match-ups will receive a Microsoft Points card (We’re estimating 500 MS Points each).
2. The team finishing second overall will receive 500 MS Points each for their final roster only.
3. Both finalist teams will receive the rank of “Grifballer” on the Halo3Planet forums, regardless of whether they actually played in the final games.
4. A tournament MVP will be chosen from the two finalist teams, and they will be awarded a year’s subscription to OXM (Official XBox Magazine).
5. A prize of a Bungie Pro year subscription will be awarded to the Team Captain who schedules and plays all of his/her games before any other team has completed their schedule as an incentive for teams to schedule games early and on time. If the tournament round robin has been completed early, the playoffs will start early.
6. We’re trying to organize some nifty shirts with our Grifball Spring Smash ‘08 logo, and will hopefully be giving out a few of those to deserving players as well.
7. Prizes may change for better or worse.  We’re having trouble gifting MS Points now that Microsoft canceled that service.

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