Worldwide Halo 2 Tourney Nears End

Team Xbox is covering a Worldwide Halo 2 tournament with contestants from around the globe. The tourney is nearing completion, and the contestants for the global championship are being finalized. The event is to take place on June 10th via Xbox live, with participants from all 24 time zones. From the article: "The United States and Japan regional contests are currently underway, with the winners being determined by the end of May. The winners from each locality will vie for the honor of being crowned Xbox Live Halo 2 World Champion, playing entirely online via Xbox Live."

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News release after the win

[Anonymous Coward]

After winning the tournament, the 13 year old winner was heard screaming into his headset. He then referred to his opponents as "gay". He plans to travel the world if his mom lets him.

Nitpick

[Otter]

These seem to be 24 Xbox Live "regions" (i.e. countries), not time zones. I believe there are people in all 24 time zones, but you'd be hard pressed to get up a decent tournament in some of them.

easy

[macshit]

It should be easy to win the Japanese tournament: Just be the one guy in Japan that owns an xbox!

[The other day I saw a big display in Shibuya station to push (tepco) broadband service, and they were offering a completely free xbox to the first n-hundred customers to sign up. I watched for a while, and it was pretty funny: they'd get some guy to sign up, and ask him "Thanks for signing up; would you like your free xbox?" (they literally had a pile of xboxes there to hand over) -- and every single time, the answer would be something like "Oh, no I don't need one". They can't even give them away...]

Re:easy

[Fred Or Alive]

Why does everyone forget Europe!

* EXPLODES *

Our Xboxes are made in China as well (at least mine is) but do you mention it? I hate it when people forget that games are sold in places other than North America and Japan and East Asia. FFS the UK is the 3rd biggest games market in the world!

* UNEXPLODES *

Sorry for the rant, just feel like a nice rant every now and again, and being a gamer in Europe gives you lots to rant about. I know where European Xboxes are made actually has nothing to do with the converstation as well...