Halo Championship Series
Place Prize ( USD ) Team Roster
1st $ 1,000,000 Counter Logic Gaming SnakeBite • Royal2 • Frosty • Lethul • Clutch
2nd $ 500,000 Team Allegiance Naded • eL TowN • Suspector • Cratos
3rd-4th $ 250,000 Team eLevate Rayne • Penguin • Swift Kill • Calm • Chig
3rd-4th $ 250,000 Denial eSports ContrA • PreDevoNatoR • Huke • bubu dubu • Elumnite
5th-8th $ 75,000 Epsilon eSports BUK 20 • BUK 57 • Jimbo • Snipedrone • Flamez
5th-8th $ 75,000 Renegades Spartan • Ninja • StelluR • Victory X • Symbolic
5th-8th $ 75,000 Evil Geniuses Snipedown • Commonly • Lunchbox • Roy • Towey
5th-8th $ 75,000 Team Liquid Ace • APG • Lepar Messiah • UnLegit • Elamite
HCS 2016 Halo World Championships -- Results
A total of $ 2,500,000 USD is awarded .
Halo Championship Series (HCS) is a professional Halo league sponsored by Microsoft and 343 Industries. It is governed by Electronic Sports League, more commonly referred to as ESL. Seasons 1 and 2 ran on , specifically its remake of Halo 2. In August 2015 Microsoft announced it would be increasing the total prize pool of the HCS to $1 million USD, for the newly announced Halo World Championship, which will be the debut event for . This prize pool was later announced to be crowd-funded, which later resulted in Major League Gaming announcing that the prize pool had climbed to $2 million USD. Later that week, 343 announced that the prize pool was locked at $2.5 million USD. This was confirmed to give the winners, later announced to be Counter Logic Gaming, the largest single monetary prize in console eSports history.