TSM are your winners of Global Grassroots Cup #3. They won the winners finals earlier today to send Shopify to loser bracket. Shopify made their way back up to Grand Finals and won the first series 3-1 to reset the bracket. But TSM closed out the reset series with a clean 3-0 sweep to win the tournament.

Across all three series between these teams today (winner finals, grand finals, grand finals reset) the map count was TSM 7 - 5 SR.

Even though this is a smaller online tournament, this is a pretty big deal as it's the first tournament Shopify has lost all year. Picking up Legend seems to be paying off for this roster. And this win sets up a juicy storyline for the Pro League LAN on November 13-15th. Congrats to TSM on the win!

(Be aware that Halo Data Hive is currently including the earlier series from Winners Finals, so the stats they have right now are inaccurate until the unrelated series gets split apart. That's the reason no stats were included with this post.)

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Bracket

SR vs tsm. Wyatt at it agin

The eight teams competing at Halo Fest will be announced in a blog post sometime in the next week but the pros have already talked to each other and know who got in. Take this with a grain of salt until everything is confirmed and finalized, but here's what pros are saying.

• Incognito were invited after all (through Envy). Yakzn was freaking out about nobody on his team receiving an invite, but it turns out this was a big misunderstanding on his part. Both Piggy and aPG said the organization that's picking Incognito up received the invite rather than the players. Yakzn has since deleted his tweets to Tashi and told Bestman here in a Reddit comment "Found my invite in the mail buddy."
• FaZe got an invite. The planned FaZe roster is Bound, Stellur, Eco, Cearion. All four players are wearing FaZe armor and emblems in-game and Cearion mentions playing under the FaZe banner in the clip. These guys teamed together at the start of the year, but Stellur wasn't willing to fly overseas to Birmingham and play on Xbox, so the team disbanded before they ever got to play on LAN.
• Cloud9 got an invite according to Cearion on aPG's stream. The Cloud9 roster will be different for Halo Fest because Cearion is leaving the team next month after the Pro League LAN. Skeptical also claims that Incognito/Envy are "100%" looking to pick up Piggy too so there might end up being two departures from the current C9 squad.
• Inconceivable got an invite. aPG says that Lucid received the invite directly.
• Shopify, TSM, Fatal Ambition also received invites according to aPG.
• Ascending Baseline weren't invited. Piggy was the first to reveal this and claimed their spot went to an EU squad instead (more on that below). SuperCC later essentially confirmed it by posting a frowny face emote in the LVT chat.
• European player(s) invited and assembling a roster. Piggy said one or more European players got invites but they don't have an org yet. aPG said he knows one of them was either Glory or SLG. Later that day SLG confirmed it on stream "yeah, I got a Halo Fest invite. Need to build my team for it."
• No ANZ or LATAM invites according to aPG, so the EU squad above is the only international representation. With only eight teams some tough choices had to be made and so we won't be seeing the Aussies like Barcode and co.
• Halo Fest roster lock is October 26th so things could change in the next week with players moving teams etc. Any roster changes need to be approved by HCS. Piggy says "I don't think there'll be a [big] rostermania really, I think there's just gonna be a few changes."

So to recap, here are the eight rumored Halo Fest rosters as of right now (subject to change until roster lock on the 26th).

1. Shopify Rebellion - LastShot, Cykul, Frosty, Royal 2
2. TSM - Snakebite, Trippy, Legend, Taulek
3. Inconceivable - Lucid, Kuhlect, Pznguin, Falcated
4. FaZe - Stellur, Bound, Eco, Cearion
5. Cloud9 - Avucy, Bubu Dubu, Piggy, +1
6. Envy - Precision, Yakzn, Descendant, Acid (possibly Piggy replacing one of them)
7. Fatal Ambition - Suppressed, Soul Snipe, Druk, Sab
8. European Squad - SLG +3 (possibly Glory)

Crazy outplay. Cearion had an incredible series, hes looking LEGIT

TSM defeat Shopify Rebellion 3-2 in the Winners Finals of Global Grassroots Cup #3. TSM now await in the Grand Finals with winners advantage while Shopify fall to lower bracket and play against the winner of YBR vs Inconceivable.

It's not often you see Shopify losing a series. Frosty turned off his stream, Cykul immediately hit VOD review. Whoever they end up playing in lower bracket finals is going to get the angry Shopify. Although this is a smaller online tourney, it's proof that this TSM roster can beat Shopify. We'll have to see if they can do it again in the inevitable Grand Finals rematch coming up.

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - TSM vs Shopify Winner Finals - Global Grassroots Cup #3
• Bracket

Inconceivable (with Renegade substituting for Lucid) have defeated YBR (future FaZe) in a quick and clean 3-0 sweep in the lower bracket. YBR are eliminated at top 4, while Inconceivable secure top 3 and play against Shopify Rebellion next in the elimination finals.

There's only two matches left for today, Inconceivable vs Shopify in an elimination match and then winner of that plays against TSM in the Grand Finals.

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• No Halo Data Hive stats because this is a pickup team (Renegade subbing)
• Bracket

…SM

Shopify have defeated Inconceivable (with Renegade subbing) 3-2 in the Elimination Finals of Global Grassroots Cup #3. Inconceivable are eliminated at top 3 while Shopify secure 2nd place and get their rematch against TSM in the Grand Finals.

This is probably the last time we see Renegade play Halo until the next game. Modern Warfare 4 releases in a few days and he's expected to join the Carolina Royal Ravens team, so he's going pro in the CDL.

Grand Finals coming up next, the rematch between Shopify and TSM. Because TSM has winners advantage, Shopify will have to win two best-of-5 series (the first to reset the bracket, the second to actually win).

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• No Halo Data Hive stats because this is a pickup team (Renegade subbing)
• Bracket

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Someone tell me this is a troll? Would be a shame to have teams like Incognito miss out when these guys get an invite.

Recap

• Ahead of their Pro League matchup, Bound was talking shit to LastShot and bragging about how he would "shit on" Shopify. Bound claimed he was going to beat LastShot so bad, that LastShot was going to have to skip his weekly YouTube recap out of embarrassment.
• LastShot has now posted his recap video on YouTube after sweeping Splyce 4-0 and said "This Pro League recap is gonna be great, I'm having a great time doing this. Bound, for you on the other hand, you do not qualify for the [Pro League] LAN. So I'm sure you're not having a great time right now."
• To add insult to injury and humiliate Splyce even further, LastShot says: "I ended up playing on a hotspot. My internet was out due to a hurricane, the power went out that morning and my internet never came back, so had to play on the phone hotspot. Shoutout T-Mobile, god-tier hotspot. Ended up getting it done with a 4-0."
• LastShot continues to twist the knife: "Pretty sad way for them to go out, honestly. I thought they were going to fight back a little more, thought Bound was going to come out with a vengeance and show us something we haven't seen before. Unfortunately that did not happen. It was pretty sad, pretty disappointed in them."
• He says "my teammates freaking dominated" and pointed out how everyone on Splyce went negative in K/D - Eco with a 0.69, Stellur with a 0.64, Bound and Renegade with a 0.91. LastShot had a better K/D (1.10) than everyone on Splyce despite being handicapped playing on a mobile hotspot.
• 🚨 REMATCH INCOMING 🚨: There's a new twist to this story. Despite not qualifying for the Pro League, Bound's team received an invite to the Halo Fest LAN in December and they're playing with a new fourth in Cearion (since Renegade is returning to CoD). They're playing against Shopify in the winners semifinals of the Global Grassroots Cup #3 tomorrow in the first match of the day on LVT Halo Twitch. Will Shopify slam them again or will Bound get his revenge? Tune in to find out.

Watch the full Pro League Week 7 Recap on LastShot's YouTube channel (he discusses all the teams not just his own).

I have two tickets for the event in December in Seattle. My son no longer wants to go. I will sell them at cost. I can do Venmo or PayPal.

I can send you screenshots to show that I’m legit.

I am looking for the clip from live fire where someone stuck someone with a spike grenade in the “private area”.

Toolez was commentating and was cracking up, they replayed it in slow motion.

Looking for it to share with my wife for some good laughs.

Thank you!

I have two tickets for the event in December in Seattle. My son no longer wants to go. I will sell them at cost. I can do Venmo or PayPal.

I noticed a shocking trend in Halo Infinite over the last 5 years. Pro teams only take chances only on exclusively teenage amateur competitors.

Cykul, LastShot, Cearion, Yakzn, Avucy - All teenagers when they got on pro teams.

Older amateurs trying to break into pro like Euzy, Xuezy, Gunplexion, etc. never make it on a pro team.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe an "older" guy in his 20's ever went from amateur to pro in Halo Infinite.

Recap

• Lucid is going to a Green Bay Packers game in Wisconsin with his wife this weekend, so Inconceivable are playing with Avucy as a substitute in the Grassroots Cup #3.
• Kuhlect says the reason this is possible is because C9 is going through some rostermania right now.
• Kuhlect claims Cearion is gonna be reuniting with the almost-FaZe team from the start of the year (Stellur, Bound, Eco, Cearion) and that it might be a Halo Fest roster. Renegade is rumored to be joining a CDL team so Cearion might be replacing him as their new fourth.

I'm not sure if this is the best place to post, but I keep getting a "removed from game" error when attempting to load into a game, using any Playlist. I cannot load into a game due to an Easy Anti-Cheat error. I have reinstalled EAC, Reinstalled and verified game files on Steam, no luck. Even tried the Xbox Game Pass version on PC, same error. I'm at a loss for words. It's like the game just stopped working at some point.

Very rarely will I get into a match (has only happened twice in 3 months), but if my PC reboots, the whole thing happens again.

Recap

• Yakzn is saying that his Incognito roster (Yakzn, Precision, Descendant, Acid) didn't receive an invite to the Halo Fest $150k LAN in December. 
• Halo Fest is an eight team invitational and Tashi said today that all eight teams have now been selected and will be announced in a blog post next week.
• Tashi responded to someone asking whether the teams/orgs know they've been selected, and Tashi said "Yes and they've confirmed their spots with us." 

So we might get more “leaks” like this in the next few days on which teams were invited. Which eight teams do you think will get in?

"All 8 HCS Invitational spot owners (teams or players) have been confirmed for Halo Fest. We will announce early next week in a blog, roster lock is on the 26th. HCS must approve all rosters before they're considered final."

There's a 2 hour Gunplexion documentary for some reason and here's the reaction from top Halo pros including Lucid, Snakebite, Bound and Eco, LastShot, Royal 2, Trippy, Piggy.

Anyone else in their 40s (or 50s, or 60s) who still loves Halo but is tired of getting destroyed by kids with 3x your reaction time?

I'm starting Donkey League, a free Halo Infinite league for players 40 and over.

Just go to DonkeyLeague.com to learn more…

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