Halo gets serious about eSports with the Halo Championship Series
343 Industries and Microsoft are serious about making Halo a legitimate player in a growing eSports landscape. So serious, in fact, that they're forming an official eSports league for it.
Dubbed the Halo Championship Series, it will see 343i partner with Twitch, the ESL and other entities to form an advisory body to tournament organizers in a quest to add structure, tension and momentum to the shooter's mulitplayer community moving forward.
The HCS is intended to see its full form when Halo 5 releases in 2015, but competitors will see its effects much sooner. 343i is launching their new league with Halo: The Master Chief Collection and the Halo 2 Anniversary multiplayer maps it contains. The HCS's inaugural season will run from November through March of 2015, and will allow teams of four competitors to participate in an officially sanctioned series of events online and at tournaments organized by HCS partners.
Halo 2: Anniversary and its multiplayer will serve as a test bed of sorts for the ideas that 343i has for Halo eSports, and in a conversation with Halo Franchise Media Director Che Chou and 343i Community Director Andy Dudynsky, it becomes clear that Halo's stewards have put a lot of thought into it.
Original Article at www.polygon.com
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