New Halo Championship Series Revealed for 2021

The competitive scene with Halo has made a comeback after the release of Halo Infinite. 343 Industries, the minds behind the game took the gaming community by storm after announcing the release of the game’s free-to-play Multiplayer on November 15. This date coincided with the Xbox 20th Anniversary event, with the game coming out way before release.

Halo Infinite is a title that players have been eagerly been waiting for since its announcement in 2018. In fact, the game has made several improvements during the course of its development cycle, which has again pleased players.

With the success of the latest installment, it appears that the competitive aspect of the game has made a bold resurgence.

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New Halo announcement

343 Industries dropped an update for the next version of the Championship Series merely a day after the game’s multiplayer launch. There is a LAN event already planned for December 17 in North Carolina. And there will be a large number of popular eSport entities present as well.

This can quite possibly indicate the rising of the game’s competitive scene again. Halo Waypoint, the blog for all things regarding the game revealed what it had in store. This includes a roadmap as well.

The blog also laid down a framework for the classification of players into different categories. These are:

Designation
NA
EU
MX
ANZ

Pro
Top 50 Players
Top 25 Players
Top 20 Players
Top 20 Players

Semi Pro
Players 51-100
Players 26-75
Players 21-50
Players 21-50

Amateur Elite
Players 101-200
Players 76-200
Players 51-100
Players 51-100

Amateur
100+ Points
100+ Points
100+ Points
100+ Points

People interested in watching the streams can watch it on the following sites:

twitch.tv/halo
twitch.tv/hcs
twitch.tv/hcs_red
twitch.tv/hcs_blue
twitch.tv/halo_esp
youtube.com/halo
Halo Esports YouTube

For an industry as big as the eSports industry, there is one primary driving force behind such competitions. Money. The best of the best compete against one another for a cash prize. The last championship featured a prize pool of $1 Million.

The blog state stated that Halo Infinite’s prize pool would start at $3 Million. It is expected that the pool will increase through crowdfunding.

The maps and modes that are best optimized for this high level of play are as follows:

Slayer:

Live Fire
Recharge
Streets
Bazaar
Aquarius

Capture the Flag:

Bazaar
Aquarius

Strongholds:

Live Fire
Recharge
Streets

Oddball:

Live Fire
Recharge
Streets

Best of 3:

 Objective
 Slayer
Objective

Best of 5:

 Objective
 Slayer
 Objective
Objective
Slayer

Best of 7:

 Objective
 Slayer
Objective
 Objective
Slayer
 Objective
 Slayer

The announcement of the roadmap bodes extremely well with the Halo community and it seems like fans of the franchise are in for a treat.

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