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HCS Pulls Major Crowdfunding

Huge news just one week ahead of Halo World Championship
by Tit Krajnik on October 15, 2022   

Halo Championship Series (HCS) announced that they'd removed the ability to bolster HCS Major prize pool through crowdfunding. The organizers decided to pull the crowdfunding on Saturday, October 15, just one week ahead of the Halo World Championship.

 

Competitive Halo has a long history of crowdfunding Major tournaments' prize pools, but it seems like that's going to change. As announced on Saturday, Halo fans will no longer be able to fund Major's prize pool – instead, the money will be reinvested into new events over the season.

Notably, all three HCS Majors of 2022 - Raleigh, Kansas, and Orlando – reached the prize pool cap, each offering a total of $350,000 in prize pool largely thanks to the Halo community, who added $300,000 in additional prizing. That's $100,000 in bonus winnings per Major.
 


Yet, despite the crowdfunding success, the HCS will move in another direction, using the money to host additional Halo tournaments. That has already proven a successful move this season, with FaZe and eUnited-hosted competitions, partly founded through crowdfunding in the Halo in-game store.

Removing crowdfunding also means that the upcoming World Championship event will not see an increased prize pool, as confirmed just a week before the Halo World Championship 2022 kick-off.

The Halo World Championship 2022 is set to take place on October 20-23 at Seattle Convention Center, with a $1,000,000 prize pool, the same amount offered at the 2018 World Championship. In the latter, the crowdfunding added an extra $500,000 to the prize pool.

Although the news comes off as reasonably tragic on the surface, the reinvestment of Halo in-game store purchases will see Year 2 of Halo Infinite feature more tournaments, strengthening Halo's esports scene. 

"Going forward, we're going to continue this new philosophy in an effort to bolster the roadmap and add new events all together, rather than boosting what are already very large prize pools," read the announcement.

"Overall, we believe this holistic approach will result in more opportunities for players, as well as more content and entertainment for fans to watch. Ultimately, we feel this will drive a larger impact across the entire ecosystem rather than putting so many eggs in one basket."
 


It was also revealed that the removal of tournament prize pool crowdfunding would allow HCS to increase the prize pool of HaloWC FFA from $5,000 to $25,000. Still, most Halo pro players disagreed with the decision, with the main criticism directed at the announcement's timing.

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