Halo Championship Series

The Halo Championship Series (HCS) is a new competitive game type that replaces the Major League Gaming playlist in the previous Halo games. This game type was meant to keep a competitive style of play for hardcore gamers. Halo has teamed up with Electronic Sports League or the ESL in order to host tournaments for this style of play.

Game Settings
The HCS playlist is currently unranked (rankings soon to come according to 343 Industries) and has 3 different maps with a variety of game types to be played. The maps consist of Shrine, Lockdown, and Warlord. The gamee types that are available are: Team Slayer, Capture the Flag, King of the Hill and Neutral Bomb Assault. Each game type is played with a team of 4 Spartans against an enemy team of 4 Spartans. There are global game type settings that are consistent for each game variant that are as follows:

Global gametype settings:
 * Primary Weapon: Battle Rifle
 * Secondary Weapon: None
 * Motion sensor: Off
 * Death Cam: Off
 * Map loadouts: Off
 * Weapons on Map: Default

There are different game settings for each type of game that is being played. The settings for each game type are as followed:

Team Slayer settings: 3 Flag CTF settings: 5 Flag CTF Classic settings: Team Crazy King: Neutral Bomb Assault (3 Bomb): Neutral Bomb Assault (5 Bomb):
 * Time limit: 15 minutes
 * Score to win: 50
 * Score to win: 3
 * Time limit: 30 minutes
 * Flag at home to score: No
 * Flag return: Disabled
 * Flag reset time: 15 seconds
 * Score to win: 5
 * Time limit: 30 minutes
 * Flag at home to score: Yes
 * Flag return: Instant
 * Flag reset time: 15 seconds
 * Score to win: 250 seconds
 * Time limit: 12 minutes
 * Hill movement: Progressive
 * Hill duration: 1 minute
 * Score to win: 3
 * Time limit: 30 minutes
 * Bomb Arm time: 5 seconds
 * Bomb Fuse Time: 3 seconds
 * Bomb reset: 30
 * Score to win: 5
 * Time limit: 30 minutes
 * Bomb Arm time: 5 seconds
 * Bomb Fuse Time: 3 seconds
 * Bomb reset: 30

Tournament Play
With this playlist being constructed for the competitive player, there are many tournaments being created to let teams of players battle against one another to show their dominant skill. The ESL has already launched two preseason tournaments where hundreds of teams competed against one another ranging from professional players to amateurs looking to get their foot in the door. In both outcomes of the tournaments professional team, Counter Logic Gaming, took first place. As the game continues to get more popular and the year comes to an end, more and more gaming tournaments across the country will be popping up. There will be a HCS circuit that will be played on the professional level for players who are eligible to play. Prizes can include payouts of thousands of dollars.

Early Issues
The hype for the video game Halo Master Chief Collection to launch was unparalleled to other games. Millions of people across the globe were lined up outside their local stores to buy their copy of the game at their earliest convenience but the unexpected occurred. Once this game was launched, there was an immediate notice of a detrimental issue. The game would not allow players to successfully play multiplayer. The servers were failing to connect one another to a match. This problem was immediately vocalized by the players, bashing 343 industries for their lack of preparedness. 343 Industries worked hard and quickly to try and fix the game's vital errors. Releasing patches for the game weeks after it was released the game was still not up to par. Currently, 343 industries is still trying to perfect their mistakes and fix the flaws in their game that seemed to be released much too early.

Halo Championship Series: Season 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XYFRAUX9KQ