Hello and welcome to episode 38 of HCS Pro Talk! This week, it is none other than our HCS London post-show! We go over all of the rosters we could find, all of the upsets, all of the results, all of the fun! Thank you for listening and as always, links to everything that is talked about in the episode is below for your viewing pleasure.
Time Stamps
- Wills Adventures 4:40
- News 13:44
- Competitive 26:35
- Scrims 53:59
- Tournaments 55:42
- HCS London 56:35
- Shoutouts 2:02:24
News
- MCC Matchmaking Update 9/11 By Postums
- Roaming King Game Mode Within Halo 5
- Halo Community Update - 9/13 - By Grimbrother One
- Halo Reach’s 8th Birthday On 9/14
News (Competitive)
- Beyond Astro Spartans September FFA Registration Live
- Halo 3 2v2 Showdown Official Announcement
- Team and Spectator Passes for HCS Dreamhack Atlanta On Sale Now
- Special shoutout to Brian AKA BrianMakesGames for providing us with this news story - Life After HCS Atlanta?
Scrim Recap
- Monday, September 10th
- TOX VS Reciprocity
- Elevate VS Excelerate Gaming
- Tuesday, September 11th
- Mentality VS Chosen Legacy
- Mock-It VS OutCold
- Lucid VS Radiant
- OutCold VS Downrush
Tournament Recap
- KMaddify Halo 3 2v2 Tournament Recap
- 1st Place
- 2nd Place
- Saint Boswell
- Little Kountry
- Bracket
- VOD
HCS London Recap
- Groups/Roster Recap
- Couldn’t Find
- Gabs and the Lads
- RTown
- Les Touristes
- KenDog’s Number 1 Fan
- The Rage Cage
- 100% Real Plum Daddy
- London Born
- Need New Batteries
- Maine
- Blitz Gaming
- Revive Nation
- Kryptek Squad Gaming
- Open Bracket
- Horus Esports
- Alexeer
- Rudimentary
- Ninzur
- TheWarrorONiel
- Fuego
- All Stars
- Ego
- Pro2g
- ShadowInDaHood
- Savieeer
- Phelan Gaming
- Zocke
- Faber
- Superior
- Schillaa
- Downrush
- Batchford
- Morguh
- Sicalkpote
- Simplay
- Cerberus Gaming
- APMH
- InReality
- MitchSlinky
- Stress
- Valor Uprise
- Cerberus
- 2MKZ
- The Druwaka
- WeRiK
- Cosconia
- Invalid Esports
- Crossman
- Herestonow
- Prophet
- MC VS Arbiter
- Polaris Gaming
- Hollers
- Slumpy
- ShabbyDagger
- DRUK844
- Group A
- Splyce - NA
- Eco
- Stellur
- Renegade
- Shotzzy
- OutCold - EU
- Qristola
- Snakey
- Snipedrone
- Shaady
- Berserker - LATAM
- Skitlite (Open Bracket) - EU
- Beetly
- Qatchy
- QuickSilver
- Blajnd
- Group B
- TOX - NA
- Snakebite
- Royal 2
- Lethul
- Frosty
- Excelerate - NA
- Radiant - EU
- WeVicious (Open Bracket) - EU
- DeadEye Fred
- Outkast
- DeZire
- Censure
- Group C
- Renegades - NA
- Lucid - EU
- Athletico - ANZ
- Chosen Legacy (Open Bracket) - NA/LATAM
- Sebaz
- Tapping Buttons
- Contra
- Rammy
- Group D
- Reciprocity - NA
- Snipedown
- Pistola
- Saiyan
- Trippey
- Trifecta - NA
- Mock-It - EU
- Looney
- Squashy
- Warlord
- Havoc
- Elevate (Open Bracket) - NA
- ElTown
- Spartan
- Falcated
- Sabinater
- 4v4 Placings
- 1st
- 2nd
- 3rd
- 4th
- 5th/6th
- 7th/8th
- 9th/12th
- Radiant Esports
- Chosen Legacy
- Lucid Gaming
- OutCold Gaming
- FFA Placings
- Notable Series
- Open Bracket
- Horus Esports VS RTown
- 100% Real Plum Daddy VS London Born
- Phelan Gaming VS Need New Batteries
- WeVicious VS KenDog’s Number
- Polaris VS Revive Nation
- WeVicious VS Invalid Esports
- Chosen Legacy VS Downrush
- Invalid Esports VS Horus Esports
- Polaris VS KenDog’s Number
- Losers Bracket
- SkitLite VS Downrush
- WeVicious VS Horus Esports
- Athletico VS Cerberus
- Radiant Esports VS Berserker Esports
- Trifecta VS Lucid Gaming
- Renegades VS Excelerate
- Winners Bracket
- Splyce VS Reciprocity
- Renegades VS TOX
- TOX VS Splyce - First Series
- TOX VS Splyce - Second Series
- Notable Statistics
- Notable Stories
- Reciprocity sending Splyce into the Loser’s Bracket
- TOX winning the event over Splyce
- Berserker Esports (LATAM) making top 8, a better placing than any EU team at HCS London.
- Athletico not making top 12
- Splyce interview (Stellur and Eco)
- Jimbo decides to take a break from Halo 5
- Brackets
- Open Bracket
- Group Play
- Champ Winners
- Champ Losers
- VOD’s
- Community Thoughts
- Goalie Sniper
- Overall I liked HCS London. I think laudy did a good job running the desk. I think the cardboard cutout of golden boy was hilarious. The series for the most part went as expected. Lots of 3-0. A few exciting game 5’s. I was going reciprocity. So seeing them take down splyce was awesome!! Their Sunday wasn’t so good. They’re so close to being on par with tox and splyce. But they just keep misplaying objective I find. But it’s was an exciting tournament. As always wonderboy and the guys in the background did an incredible job with the observer mode part! The casting in halo is always top notch. And seeing what they did for Simms on the cast was heartwarming. It’s got me excited for dreamhack! Can’t wait to see how splyce answers to dropping a tournament. And see how tox does with defending a title once again. And how all the other teams improve over the next few months through an even harder grind!! Real question here though. I know you guys had spitballed doing like an Xbox live party chat viewing party. If you end up doing that it would be awesome!!! Have some people to talk to between the games. About all the big moments that always happen.
- Gas HCS
- Favorite series. Lucid vs Trifecta. The GF Series 2 is an obvious choice but the reaction from the Trifecta guys and EU support for their best chance at T8 was quality. Not the result I wanted but cracking game all the same. Why it was a feature stage game I’ll never know
- Moments. Honestly they didn’t get the result they wanted but bubudubu getting increasingly hype in the series of Excelerate vs Renegades. He was consistently making clutch plays and let them know about it.
- Mikwen and Penguin reminded everyone that they are top tier players. I think Mikwen went 16-6 first map against Splyce in Losers Semis. Insane performances all round.
- Frosty giving one of the best individual games I’ve ever seen in Refuge CTF v Splyce also.
- Inhuman
- Favorite Series? -Reciprocity Vs Splyce (Saturday and Sunday) : was interesting to see the major contrast in both teams between the 2 series on both days.
- Players- @SnakeBiteFPS was popping off all weekend, didn't get nearly enough attention.
- Moment- renegade taking the L
- Jim Efantis
- I loved the video wall. I also loved the post game breakdown with each of the players. It was a great show! Only drawback, the cut back to the desk with Lottie and the boys seemed to drag on a but too much. The vignettes (riding bikes, eating wings) were all great fillers!
Shoutouts
- Community Members
- HCS NOLA Casters/Analysts/Observers
- Onset specifically, for providing a separate shoutout video containing more shoutouts
Community Creations
- Meme Monday
- HCS London Top 5 Plays
Plugs
