Halo 3 Planet

Arguably Halo: CE’s most popular map, Chill Out was put on display last night by Bungie at the MLG San Diego event, the second stop on the 2008 MLG Pro Circuit. The new map - dubbed ‘Cold Storage’ - was displayed by Luke Smith and Shishka in an exhibition match against two MLG stars. The boys from Bungie made no mention of the intended release date.

MLG has kindly hosted some images from the event. Follow this link for the gallery.

We’ll be keeping you updated on the new maps as they are announced, and we might even help a few lucky readers pay for the pack.

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.

Sorry folks, I meant to get this out earlier, but with Turkey Day just around the corner, I guess things have been a bit busy.

In any case, we are very happy with all of the entries we have received for the Halo FORGE-Tacular Contest we’ve been running.  I wanted to drop a quick note to let everyone know that we will be deciding a contest winner very soon.  It takes quite a bit of time to download the games to the console and what not, but hopefully we’ll have some winners for you by the end of the week.

Because of the Delay, we will be throwing in “2 Microsoft Points Prizes” to 2 randomly selected winners with enough points to purchase the recently announced [tag]Halo[/tag] 3 Heroic Map Pack!

[tag]CPL[/tag] (Cyberathlete Professional League) is hosting a Halo 3 tournament of grand proportions this December (much larger than the Halo 50k some of you may recall).  We’re talking about a total of over $1,000,000 in cash prizes!

The $1 Million Dollar Halo 3 Tournament is being held on the 18th-22nd of December (participants are being advised to arrive on the 17th, and leave on the 23rd) in Dallas Texas this year.  The game setup is a 4 man “Free for All”, so no team action.  The first place prize is $250,000!

The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) released more details today on the $1,000,000 “Halo 3″ [tag]Xbox[/tag] 360 competition, to be hosted at the Extreme Winter Championships taking place Tuesday, December 18 to Saturday, December 22, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Dallas, Texas.

The “Halo 3″ Xbox 360 competition, which is a production of X Factor [tag]Tournament[/tag], will use a four-player Free For All (FFA) format and will be open to gamers of all ages. “[tag]Halo 3[/tag]″ has been rated “Mature” by the ESRB, and therefore competition participants under the age of 17 need signed parental consents.

It’s great to see some competition with prizes (although this seems a bit early considering the game came out just recently), and we’re hoping to see some team tournaments in the future.

Thanks for the tip Smelly Bob.

Halo 3 Planet is hosting its very first [tag]Contest[/tag], complete with [tag]Halo[/tag] Swag and some other cool prizes.  We’re looking for the Halo community to get creative with Forge, and build some cool maps and game.  The best ones will take home some sweet prizes!

It’s our Ultimate FORGE-tacular! Giveaway!

The Rules are simple. We simply want you to design your own map using “Forge”, and then create a custom gametype to go with it. When the contest ends, we’ll decide which Game is the best of them all (based on downloads, rating, and personal judging).

You can get all of the details on the Contests Rules page.  We’ll keep adding more prizes if enough people participate (perhaps even a Halo 3 Zune or 360 Console)!  We’ll also post our favorites on our brand new Custom Games page for everyone to download!

Get to it folks!  Start Forgin’!