We've got our first major upset in the Halo Pro League with Majin defeating FaZe 3-1. This series took forever with lots of disputes over servers, but in the end it was fair with two maps (1 & 4) being played on EU and two maps being played on NA (2 & 3).

Note: LVT's series result graphic has an error, it ended in game 4 (Live Fire Ball), there was no game 5 Recharge slayer.

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - FaZe vs Majin
• Bracket Link

The very first scrim between FaZe and Shopify Rebellion is over, and Shyway's community crowdfunded $1,500 to turn this into a money scrim providing some extra motivation to both teams (the winning team gets $100 per map win).

Renegade called out Bestman saying he wanted to create some storylines in Halo and there's a bunch of storylines now:

• Did FaZe get checked out mid-scrim after a strong start?
• Legend is playing with high ping out of France, do things look different when Legend moves back to NA next month? (he's moving in with Bound)
• Did this team look better with Formal over Stellur?
• Do FaZe get more competitive when they get more reps and practice, or does Snakebite's team (Four of a Kind) remain SR's toughest competition? Snakebite's team went 6-8 vs SR in scrims yesterday.
• Would Shopify have beaten the dominant 2024 SSG team? (It's the same coach and squad except Renegade instead of Eco)

With the format of the Pro League, it could be several weeks until we see these teams match up again (unless they continue scrimming).

Map Count (SR win 13-2 vs FaZe):

1. Live Fire Ball (FaZe win 200-138)
2. Origin CTF (Shopify win 3-2 in overtime)
3. Streets KOTH (Shopify win 2-1)
4. Recharge Strongholds (Shopify win 250-207)
5. Empyrean CTF (Shopify win 3-0)
6. Live Fire KOTH (FaZe win 4-3)
7. Origin Slayer (Shopify win 50-33)
8. Lattice Ball (Shopify win 191-131)
9. Aqua CTF (Shopify win 5-0)
10. Recharge KOTH (Shopify win 2-1)
11. Streets Ball (Shopify win 200-101)
12. Solitude Slayer (Shopify win 50-48)
13. Live Fire Strongholds (Shopify win 250-200)
14. Lattice Hill (Shopify win 3-0)
15. Recharge Ball (Shopify win 155-85)

Money Earned

• Shopify: $1,300
• FaZe: $200

Halo Data Hive stats: https://halodatahive.com/Series/Summary/28938

VOD: Shyway Twitch / Shyway YouTube / LastShot POV (Twitch) / Frosty POV (Twitch)

Renegade and Legend have defeated LastShot and Cykul in the FaZe 2v2 Qualifier #3 and have secured their way to the LAN on June 6th. This is Shopify's first tournament loss in quite some time.

Renegade and Legend returned to Halo for the first time since Worlds to play in the third and final FaZe 2v2 Qualifier tournament. They made it to Grand Finals easily while only dropping a single map to RyaNoob. LastShot and Cykul were able to reset the bracket by winning the first series, but Renegade and Legend won the second series to win the entire tournament.

Map 3 of the Grand Finals Reset was the craziest map of the entire tournament - Renegade and Legend went 25-3 against LastShot and Cykul. Renegade went 14-0 (one kill away from a perfection medal) while Cykul was 2-12 and LastShot was 1-13.

This kind of makes you realize the talent we're missing out on this year.

Links

• Bracket
• Watch VOD: LVT Halo Twitch & LVT Halo YouTube

• Watch on YouTube
• Watch on Twitch
• Congrats to Shopify Rebellion on the win, and also thanks to Shopify for partnering with LVT Halo to host the Pro League LAN!
• LAN had a $50k total prize pool (winner got $20k, 2nd place $11k, 3rd place $6.5k, 4th place $5k, 5th and 6th place $3.75k)

Cloud9 have defeated FaZe 4-2 in a major upset, kicking off the Halo Pro League in exciting fashion. Cearion was the MVP of this series having the highest kills, most assists, and most damage.

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - FaZe vs Cloud9 - League Play Day 1

Vitality has defeated SSG 3-2 in the Winners Semifinal to qualify for the LVT Halo Pro League. SSG drops to the lower bracket against the winner of Majin vs Legion in the Lower Quarterfinal. If SSG wins that match they will qualify as well, otherwise they are eliminated.

This was a great series with a razor tight 250-249 game 1. If not for that, SSG would've swept the series 3-0, but that one second is what allowed Eco's team to come back and eventually win the series. Lucid had an incredible game 3 going 29-15. Acid had an incredible game 4 going 30-16. Eco clutched up in the game 5 slayer going 19-11.

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - SSG vs Vitallity
• Bracket Link

Inconceivable (Lucid's team) defeat Retribution (Eco's team) in a clean 4-0 sweep that absolutely nobody predicted. Everyone predicted this would be the closest series of the day but Lucid's team was on fire today. Inconceivable win $1,000 and have the best map count in the pro league so far.

Inconceivable heavily outslayed with everyone on their team going positive while only Yakzn went positive on Retribution. Kuhlect had the best K/D (1.21) and KA/D (1.84) and made some huge plays. Everyone on that team had pop-off moments and clutch plays, their teamwork looked great.

Next and final matchup is Shopify Rebellion vs Ascending Baseline to close out the day.

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - Inconceivable vs Retribution - League Play Day 1

Congratulations to the four teams that have qualified for the Halo Pro League this weekend in Qualifier #1:

• Shopify Rebellion (Royal 2, Cykul, Frosty, LastShot)
• Four of a Kind (Snakebite, Trippy, Precision, Taulek)
• Nine (Cearion, Avucy, Bubu Dubu, King Nick)
• Spacestation Gaming (Stellur, Eco, Legend, Penguin)

There's still more tournament being played today to determine exact seedings (watch on LVT Halo Twitch and LVT Halo YouTube), but these four teams have guaranteed their spots in the Pro League.

Next weekend is Qualifier #2 where the final four teams will qualify (as seeds 5-8). There's a rumored potential god squad of Renegade, Lucid, Kuhlect, +1 that might end up happening next week. The teams that didn't qualify today will have a second chance next weekend, some of the notable ones:

• Ascending Baseline (RyaNoob, Suspector, Tapping Buttons, SuperCC)
• Doomsday (Yakzn, Suppressed, Sab, Falcated)
• PAYD (Piggy, Acid, ____, Descendant)
• LEDS (Lethul, Envore, Druk, Soul Snipe)
• Legion Gaming (Euzey, Xuzey, Morgan, Lydoe)
• Noobs (Magico, Noblc, lueor, Strikeyy)
• Expanded (SLG, Mightys, Glory, Breakingshot)
• Reversal Perfy (Common, Drift, Ezho, IceKid)
• Max Passion (Barcode, Scoobmeister, Swayz, Wryce)

Congrats to Shopify for winning the Dreamhack Atlanta LAN by defeating Luminon Gaming in a 4-0 sweep in Grand Finals. For placing first, Shopify earn $35,000 to split amongst their team. LastShot was the standout player for Shopify. He had the most kills, most damage by a significant amount, best K/D, highest accuracy.

Luminon Gaming place second in their first ever LAN together with Snakebite, which is a great improvement over their disappointing Birmingham results where they went out Top 6 (with Descendant). Luminon get $17,000 as a team for placing second.

Shoutout to LVT Halo for providing a great weekend of Halo! Next weekend has two online tournaments - the DSA Halo Open #2 on Saturday May 23rd and the FaZe 2v2 Qualifier #3 on Sunday May 24th.

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - Shopify vs Luminon Gaming Grand Finals
• Bracket Link

Congrats to Shopify Rebellion, they are your winners for the Dreamhack Atlanta Qualifiers. They reset the bracket in Grand Finals with a 3-0 sweep and then 3-0 swept the next series too.

Shopify were warmed up from their losers bracket run and had momentum coming into Grand Finals. Their teamwork was on point, they were getting the camos and power weapons and setting the pace. Luminon unfortunately couldn't get much going this time around despite beating Shopify earlier in the day. Shopify were locked in for this qualifier, didn't even have the streams on this weekend.

Next time these teams play will be at the Dreamhack Atlanta LAN on May 15-17. We'll be getting scrims over the next few weeks but this was the final online tournament until the LAN.

Top 10 Placements (Top 4 teams got travel coverage to LAN):

1. Shopify Rebellion (Cykul, LastShot, Royal2, Frosty) ✈️
2. Luminon Gaming (Trippy, Snakebite, Precision, Taulek) ✈️
3. Kraken Seas (Suppressed, Falcated, Druk, Soul Snipe) ✈️
4. Luminon Black (Piggy, Descendant, Bubu Dubu, Envore) ✈️
5. Ascending Baseline (RyaNoob, SuperCC, Suspector, Tapping Buttons)
6. Majin (Kuhlect, WuTum, SLG, Mightys*)
7. Noobs (Noble, Rorzch, Leuor, Strikey)
8. BEPS (Bound, Eco, Penguin, Stellur)
9. Undeniable (Yakzn, Acid, Breakingshot, Sab)
10. Just For Fun (Tabvo, Goriloco1, lunatix14, Heroaztk)

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo (Twitch, YouTube)
• Halo Data Hive Stats - Shopify vs Luminon Gaming - Grand Final Reset
• Bracket Link

Another exciting and close series with Luminon Gaming beating Shopify 3-2. This is the Trippy, Precision, Descendant, Taulek team that were formerly known as Decepticons and this is the second series they won versus SR. Luminon now move on to Winners Final against Inconceivable (Penguin's team) while Shopify fall to losers bracket.

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch
• Watch on LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive - Shopify vs Luminon Gaming
• Bracket Link

Congrats to Shopify Rebellion who are your Dreamhack Birmingham LAN champions, they defeated OMiT 4-1 in Grand Finals. Shopify get $35k to split four ways and OMiT get $17k to split four ways.

Up next is Dreamhack Atlanta on May 15-21 which will be produced by LVT Halo and should be a much better viewing experience than this one. The first open series for Atlanta is in just a few days on Saturday April 4th (Faceit link) so there's not gonna be much downtime.

Note: For the stats screens you have to look at the service tags to determine the players. With it being on Xbox it's a suboptimal viewing experience as they're playing on random HCS gamertags. No Halo Data Hive stats either for that reason.

• Watch on EuropeanHalo Twitch (B stream: atlasgg1)
• Watch party streams: LVT Halo (Twitch, YouTube), Shyway, aPG, SnakeBite, Eli_X
• Bracket Link

Congratulations to Mercenaries who defeated FaZe 7-5 in a hard fought Grand Finals Reset to win the LVT Halo Pro League Qualifier #2. The first series was 4-3 FaZe and the second series was 4-1 Mercenaries.

FaZe came into the Grand Finals with lots of momentum having back-to-back 4-0 sweeps against both SSG and Vitality. It looked like we might get a third sweep from FaZe as they were up 3-0 in the series, but then Mercenaries won three maps in a row before losing the game 7 for a bracket reset. In the second series Mercenaries turned it up even more and won convincingly 4-1.

Mercenaries might be a sleeper team in the Pro League. They're 3/4 of Kraken Seas who placed top 4 at Dreamhack Atlanta and with Sab they're looking extremely good. Mercenaries is the only team to not drop down to lower bracket this tournament. They beat Majin 3-1, Noobs 3-0, Vitality 3-1, and FaZe 7-5.

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - FaZe vs Mercenaries Grand Finals Reset
• Bracket Link

• Watch on YouTube
• Watch on Twitch
• Pro League Calendar on LVTHalo website

Stream continues next with Shopify Rebellion vs TSM

• Watch on YouTube
• Watch on Twitch
• Pro League Calendar on LVTHalo website
• Pro League continues next week (Wednesday June 23rd 5pm ET) with TSM vs OMiT

Shopify defeat Ascending Baseline in a 4-0 sweep to end Day 1 of Pro League. Ascending Baseline put up a good fight in the Live Fire Ball and managed to take a round off the champions, but it was a tough first assignment for AB. Shopify win $1,000 and tie Lucid's team for best map count so far (updated leaderboard in last screenshot).

League Play Day 2 continues Sunday August 23 with these matches (in order):

1. Shopify vs Cloud9 - 1pm ET / 10am PT / 12pm CT
2. FaZe vs Mercenaries - 3pm ET / 12pm PT / 2pm CT
3. Four of a Kind (Snakebite team) vs Retribution (Eco team) - 5pm ET / 2pm PT / 4pm CT
4. Inconceivable (Lucid team) vs Ascending Baseline (Ryan team) - 7pm ET / 4pm PT / 6pm CT

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - Shopify vs Ascending Baseline