The Halo World Championship is one of the world’s largest, most-watched and most lucrative pro gaming tournaments. It hosts regional champions from the Halo Championship Series, and is run and sponsored by game publisher Microsoft, and Halo series developer, 343 Industries.

The Halo World Championship is governed by the Electronic Sports League (ESL), with the current game played being Halo Infinite. The prize pool in 2016 of $2.5 million was one of the highest ever for a console-game tournament, with the winning team taking home a whopping US$1 Million first-place prize. The Halo World Championship 2024 will have a $1 million prize pool and it will be hosted at the Seattle Convention Centre in Seattle, Washington.

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Qualification for Halo World Championship 2024

Qualification for the Halo World Championship is through the Salt Lake City Major results. The top eight teams from the Salt Lake City Major will automatically qualify for the 2024 World Championships. The final places are taken up by the top four teams in the Halo Championship Series points, while four representatives will come from the Last Chance Qualifier.

The two main events for the Halo World Championship Series are the Salt Lake City Major and World Championship, the dates of all Halo Championship events are below.

Event	Date	Prize money $USD
March 15-17	Arlington Major 2024	$250,000
May 31-June 2	London Major 2024	$250,000
July 26-28	Atlanta Major 2024	$250,000
September 6-8	Salt Lake City Major 2024	$250,000
October 4-6	Halo World Championship 2024	$1,000,000

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Qualifying Rules

• Game played: Halo Infinite
• Mode played: 4v4
• Team must have 4 players
• Each player must have an active gamertag for Xbox or PC

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Halo World Championship 2024 Odds

Below you will find the odds for any team “To Win Outright” at Halo World Championship;

• Spacestation Gaming – $2.10
• OpTic Gaming – $2.50
• FaZe Clan – $4.50
• Shopify Rebellion – $11.00
• Sentinels – $21.00
• Complexity – $23.00
• Quadrant – $34.00
• Pure – $41.00
• Native Gaming – $51.00
• Into The Breach – $51.00
• Cloud9 – $81.00
• Dark Inside – $101.00
• Alpha Esports – $251.00
• Team Lethal Fox – $501.00
• Mindfreak – $751.00
• Ascending Baseline EU – $1,001.00

Below you will find the odds for any team “To Reach The Final” at Halo World Championship;

• Spacestation Gaming – $1.36
• OpTic Gaming – $1.53
• FaZe Clan – $2.50
• Shopify Rebellion – $5.50
• Sentinels – $10.00
• Complexity – $21.00
• Quadrant – $17.00
• Pure – $21.00
• Native Gaming – $26.00
• Into The Breach – $26.00
• Cloud9 – $41.00
• Dark Inside – $51.00
• Alpha Esports – $126.00
• Team Lethal Fox – $251.00
• Mindfreak – $351.00
• Ascending Baseline EU – $501.00

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Halo World Championship Teams

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

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Halo World Championship Format

• Pool Play

  • Four groups of four teams play a single round-robin
  • All matches are best-of-five
  • Top two teams from each group advance to upper-bracket round one
  • Third team in each group advances to lower-bracket round one
  • Fourth team in each group is eliminated

• Championship Bracket

  • Remaining teams play in a double-elimination bracket
  • All matches are best-of-five, except the grand final that is best-of-seven

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Prize pool distribution for the 2024 Halo World Championship

The US$1,000,000 prize pool for the 2024 Halo World Championship will be distributed as the table shows below.

Place	Prize Money $USD	Halo WC Series Points
1st	$400,000	200,000
2nd	$220,000	120,000
3rd	$110,000	88,000
4th	$70,000	72,000
5th-6th	$45,000	64,000
7th-8th	$25,000	56,000
9th-12th	$10,000	44,000
13th-16th	$5,000	36,000

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History of Halo World Championship winners

Below is the list of Halo World Championship winners throughout its history.

• 2016 : Counter Logic Gaming
• 2017 : OpTic Gaming
• 2018 : Splyce
• 2022 : OpTic Gaming
• 2023 : FaZe Clan