Commander Eagle

It’s a really stupid set up. Instead of a main stage there are 2 side stages

Technical issues with Roy’s headset audio. It never ends... EDIT: seems like it’s fixed, should hopefully get going soon.

It’s up next! They’re warming up right now.

REC was bumped up to 2nd in the group! I just talked with Eric, Jason, and Justin and they found out the rule was supposed to be map percentage in the games between the 3 tied teams only, not overall. So Falling was 5-3 (62.5%), REC was 4-5 (44.4%), and GMS was 3-4 (42.9%). So, REC starts in winners vs TOX, while GMS starts in losers.

Lol the percentage is out of the number of games played, REC won 7/12 and GMS won 6/10.

Still will start from losers, but would be a huge boost to their confidence which clearly isn’t in the best place right now.

REC about to play Falling. If they 3-0 them group standings will end as REC-Falling-GMS. If any other result (REC loses or doesn’t sweep), group standings will end as Falling-GMS-REC EDIT: I made a mistake, 3-0 it’s REC-Falling-GMS, 3-1 it’s Falling-REC-GMS, anything else it’s Falling-GMS-REC

I’m right behind them getting set up, already having technical difficulties with the setups EDIT: They’re unplugging and replacing all the monitors

What was everyone’s take on the stream/production? The in-venue experience has been very subpar so far, which mostly stems from the fact that we’re sharing the hall with numerous other (very loud) stations, not to mention a fucking rave. Gameplay hasn’t been too exciting so far, but that’s to be expected for Friday. Things should pick up tomorrow. Speaking about tomorrow, I am very concerned about the schedule. We start at 11 with each group having to play 3 more games. These have to be played back-to-back-to-back as the fourth qualifying team in each group has to play all 3 matches. This means we can’t even start bracket play for the length of 3 series. There are also a comparatively large number of teams in bracket play (I believe 20? All the group participants plus 4 more teams from open). I think either we’re going to run late, or important matches won’t be streamed, or both. I hope I’m pleasantly surprised, but past experience has shown that trying to run this many matches in one day is usually problematic. Casting and analysis has been great, @Wonderboy analysis on point as always.

Simms is a big shot now he’s left Halo in the dust

It’s literally intolerable the bass is so fucking loud

Can you guys hear the fucking nightclub going on in the background on stream?

Let’s go REC!!

Can confirm I’m sitting right behind him

I’m interested to see how their objective work is against top squads like tox, rec, and nfinite. Eco is the only one on that squad who has traditionally been an objective focused player so will be interesting to see if they run into any issues.

Did you guys just hear that shit on the stream?

As far as I know, Penguin was the odd one out in all the musical chairs the last couple of weeks. Zzurka and Tripppey got in with GMS in the end when Neighbor and Ace left. Edit: Just saw your edit glad he found a team in the end

Roy/Ola told me that the online thing is probably wrong, they’ve been told they’re in pool 4 based on the open results. We’ll see eventually anyways haha

Rec looks like they’re gonna be in pool D with Falling and GMS.

Ola just hit a killtac on Heretic TS

Didn’t play in some quals, got knocked out early in others. I watched one of their open series, they are destroying haha. Obv it’s ams, but their shots, especially Snip3down’s, looked really on point.

Current thoughts in the venue: The speakers are WAY too low. It’s hard for the people in front to hear and almost impossible for people in the back. It doesn’t help that the smash tourney speakers are BLARING from the other side of the room. Edit: it’s not the smash tourney it’s something else

Yup, I’m driving up from Austin for the weekend.

Jeez guys, it's less than 2 days before a major Halo 3 LAN event and here we are arguing about sprint again

Great to see @Wonderboy will be in the booth!