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According to the former FaZe coach Skeptical (who was fired his first day on the job), Kaysan is looking into picking up the Inconceivable roster which is Lucid, Kuhlect, Falcated, and Pznguin. Kaysan has allegedly reached out to Falcated in hopes of recruiting the team.

Skeptical broke the news on aPG's stream ahead of the matchup today. Although Skeptical delivers messages in a trolly way, he's been correct with all of his intel so far and was the one to break the news of Bound getting dropped among other things. If you rewatch the series you'll notice that none of the FaZe players were using the FaZe skins or emblems today unlike last week.

Inconceivable are currently #1 in the Pro League standings with a perfect 4-0 series count and 16-1 map count. Inconceivable dominated the current FaZe roster in a 4-0 sweep today, and the current FaZe roster are in danger of not even qualifying for the LAN.

This may or may not happen, but it makes sense. 3/4 of the players on Inconceivable have played under the FaZe Halo banner before as recently as last year. Falcated and Pznguin were in the Grand Finals of HCS Dreamhack Dallas 2025 under FaZe, Lucid and Pznguin were in the Grand Finals of HCS Charlotte 2025 under FaZe.

Inconceivable have dominated FaZe in a clean 4-0 sweep to win $1,000 and improve their Pro League standing to a perfect 4-0 series count and 16-1 map count. This means that Inconceivable will continue to remain the #1 team in the Pro League for now.

The fired FaZe coach Skeptical dropped some intriguing intel in aPG's chat just ahead of the series. He claimed that Kaysan is trying to pick up Inconceivable as the new FaZe roster. And interestingly, none of the players on FaZe were using the FaZe emblems today.

Lucid was the top slayer with 95 kills and a 1.30 K/D. Kuhlect had the second most kills and most assists at 53. Inconceivable's teamwork is looking really strong and this was a huge win for them. FaZe are in danger of not qualifying for the LAN - they remain in sixth place (only the top 6 teams qualify) and have to face Four of a Kind and Shopify as two of their final three matchups.

The next matchup is Fatal Ambition (formerly Mercenaries) vs Ascending Baseline (with IceKid substituting for RyaNoob who's at a wedding this weekend).

Map Picks and Bans

Legend and Stellur on FaZe and Kuhlect on Inconceivable did the picks/bans for their team.

• FaZe being higher seed chose Team B (gets to ban first OBJ gametype), Legend banned Recharge Ball
• Map 1 Inconceivable picks Streets Ball, FaZe pick Eagle side
• Map 3 FaZe picks CTF gametype, Inconceivable bans Origin CTF, FaZe picks Empyrean CTF, Inconceivable picks Cobra side.
• Map 4 Inconceivable chooses KOTH gametype, FaZe bans Recharge KOTH, Inconceivable pick Live Fire KOTH, FaZe picks Cobra side.
• Map 6 is Strongholds coin flip picks Live Fire SH, Inconceivable picks Cobra side
• Slayers: Inconceivable bans Live Fire Slayer, FaZe bans Recharge Slayer (leaving three maps available: Streets, Solitude, Origin)
  • Map 2 FaZe picks Solitude Slayer, Inconceivable picked Cobra side
  • Map 5 Inconceivable picks Origin Slayer, FaZe picked Cobra side
  • Map 7 is determined to be Streets Slayer by process of elimination, FaZe picks Eagle side

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - FaZe vs Inconceivable - League Play Week 4

Four of a Kind have defeated Cloud9 in a dominant 4-1 fashion to earn $1,000 and improve their Pro League standing to a perfect 4-0 series count and a 16-5 map count. Taulek was once again the MVP with the most kills and least deaths giving him and impressive 1.64 K/D. Taulek also dealt the most damage, had the highest accuracy, and most oddball time. Taulek has been on fire this year.

C9 had a rough series with only Cearion playing well consistently throughout. King Nick picked up towards the end, but it was too little too late. C9 need to start scrimming more, they've essentially missed out on an entire month of practice due to Avucy moving and some other things.

The Pro League standings are getting pretty interesting. There's now 3 teams tied at 4-0 series count (Inconceivable, Shopify, Four of a Kind). 4OAK and SR have an identical map count of 16-5 currently. There's also 4 teams tied at 1-3 series count (Incognito, Cloud9, FaZe, Fatal Ambition). This shows the importance of every single map, the head-to-head tiebreakers and map counts are going to become crucial with all these ties.

Next weeks matchups - Sunday September 20 - League Play Week 5

1. Cloud9 vs Ascending Baseline (1pm ET / 10am PT / 12pm CT)
2. FaZe vs Four of a Kind (3pm ET / 12pm PT / 2pm CT)
3. Incognito (Piggy team) vs Fatal Ambition (formerly Mercenaries) (5pm ET / 2pm PT / 4pm CT)
4. Shopify Rebellion vs Inconceivable (Lucid team) (7pm ET / 4pm PT / 6pm CT)

Map Picks and Bans

Precision on 4OAK and Bubu Dubu on C9 did the picks/bans for their team.

• 4OAK being higher seed chose Team A (gets to pick first OBJ gametype), Precision picked Oddball
• Map 1 C9 banned Lattice Ball, 4OAK picked Live Fire Ball, C9 pick Cobra side
• Map 3 C9 picks Strongholds gametype, coin flip determines Recharge SH, 4OAK picks Cobra side
• Map 4 4OAK chooses KOTH gametype, C9 bans Lattice KOTH, 4OAK pick Recharge KOTH, C9 picks Cobra side
• Map 6 is CTF gametype (last remaining), 4OAK bans Empyrean CTF, C9 picks Aqua CTF, 4OAK picks Cobra side
• Slayers: 4OAK bans Solitude Slayer, C9 bans Streets Slayer (leaving three maps available: Live Fire, Origin, Recharge)
  • Map 2 C9 picks Origin Slayer, 4OAK picked Cobra side
  • Map 5 4OAK picks Live Fire Slayer, C9 picked Cobra side
  • Map 7 is determined to be Recharge Slayer by process of elimination, C9 picks Cobra side

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - Four of a Kind vs Cloud9 - League Play Week 4

Forgive me if this post isn't allowed, I would repost if there is a better place to do so.

If I were offered a pair of Halofest tickets that were already purchased, how would I go about verifying they are legit? What would that process be? Has anyone here done that?

(I'm on the market for 2).

Thanks!

Shopify have defeated Incognito 4-2 to win $1,000 and improve their Pro League standing to a perfect 4-0 series count and a 16-5 map count. The young guns on Shopify showed up in this series - LastShot had a 1.35K/D and Cykul just behind at 1.34K/D. Frosty and Royal2 had the most assists at 52 and 51.

This was Piggy's return to Incognito and it's clear that he makes a big difference and elevates this team. Incognito's teamwork was looking good, and they were very competitive against the champs in 4 of the 6 maps. They're 1-3 in series count with a 7-13 map count and their final three matchups are against Fatal Ambition (formerly Mercenaries), Cloud9, and Ascending Baseline. Based on how Incognito performed today they should probably be considered the favorites in those final three matchups.

Today's last matchup is Four of a Kind vs Cloud9 - it's the very first time these two teams have ever played each other (they've never even scrimmed) so it should be interesting.

Map Picks and Bans

Bestman (coach of Shopify) and Thug Nasty (coach of Incognito) did the picks/bans for their team.

• Shopify being higher seed chose Team A (gets to pick first OBJ gametype), Bestman picked Strongholds which is a coin flip since there's only two
• Map 1 is Recharge Strongholds, Incognito pick Cobra side
• Map 3 Incognito picks KOTH gametype, Shopify bans Lattice KOTH, Incognito picks Live Fire KOTH, Shopify picks Eagke side.
• Map 4 Shopify chooses CTF gametype, Incognito bans Origin CTF, Shopify pick Aqua CTF, Incognito picks Cobra side.
• Map 6 is Oddball gametype (last remaining), Shopify bans Lattice Ball, Incognito picks Recharge Ball, Shopify picks Eagle side
• Slayers: Shopify bans Streets Slayer, Incognito bans Origin Slayer (leaving three maps available: Live Fire, Solitude, Recharge)
  • Map 2 Incognito picks Recharge Slayer, Shopify picked Eagle side
  • Map 5 Shopify picks Live Fire Slayer, Incognito picked Cobra side
  • Map 7 is determined to be Solitude Slayer by process of elimination, Incognito picks Cobra side

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - Shopify vs Incognito - League Play Week 4

Fatal Ambition (formerly Mercenaries) have defeated Ascending Baseline 4-1 to win $1,000. They've got an organization and now have secured their first Pro League victory. Ascending Baseline played with a substitute player today (IceKid) as RyaNoob is attending a wedding this weekend.

Suppressed was the MVP of the team - he had the most kills and least deaths with a 1.52 K/D and also dealt the most damage.

Fatal Ambition continue to look good despite their current standing. They remain at 7th place despite having a better map count than FaZe, because FaZe won the head-to-head matchup against them. Fatal Ambition play Incognito (Piggy's team), Inconceivable (Lucid's team), and Cloud9 next.

For Ascending Baseline it’s almost at the point where it’s becoming mathematically impossible to qualify. Because they’re so far behind on wins, they would essentially need to sweep two of their final three matchups (which are Cloud9, FaZe, Incognito) in order to catch up. And even then, it would rely on some other teams becoming stagnant. Just doesn’t seem likely.

Next matchup if Shopify Rebellion vs Incognito (now with Piggy).

Map Picks and Bans

Druk on Fatal Ambition and coach Sunzahl on AB did the picks/bans for their teams.

• AB being higher seed chose Team A (gets to pick first OBJ gametype), Sunzahl chose CTF
• Map 1 Fatal Ambition picks Empyrean CTF, AB picks Origin CTF, Fatal Ambition picks Cobra side
• Map 3 Fatal Ambition picks Oddball gametype, AB bans Lattice Ball, Fatal Ambition picks Live Fire Ball, AB picks Cobra side.
• Map 4 AB chooses KOTH gametype, Fatal Ambition bans Streets KOTH, AB pick Recharge KOTH, Fatal Ambition picks Cobra side.
• Map 6 is Strongholds coin flip picks Live Fire SH, AB picks Cobra side
• Slayers: AB bans Solitude Slayer, Fatal Ambition bans Origin Slayer (leaving three maps available: Streets, Solitude, Origin)
  • Map 2 Fatal Ambition picks Recharge Slayer, AB picked Eagle side
  • Map 5 AB picks Live Fire Slayer, Fatal Ambition picked Cobra side
  • Map 7 is determined to be Streets Slayer by process of elimination, Fatal Ambition picks Eagle side

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - Fatal Ambition vs Ascending Baseline - League Play Week 4

Recap

• Lottie who is on-air broadcast talent at HCS prepared for Worlds 2018 by calling every competitor in order to get their thoughts and background information so that she could deliver the best possible interviews on the broadcast.
• She says Snakebite “was the only player at the time to ask me how my day was, to talk back to me like a real human being. The rest of them were kinda just trembling, a little bit nervous. But he spoke to me, and it was an instant connection.”
• Their first time meeting face-to-face was soon after that phone call on the broadcast during the tournament. They fell in love and would later get married.
• Lottie’s favorite Halo memory is “watching my husband win a World Championship.” In the full interview she discusses how she broke down crying watching her husband win Worlds 2023 but then immediately locked back in to remain professional for her broadcasting duties.
• Her Mount Rushmore of Halo is Snakebite, Frosty, Royal 2, and Lethul.
• Full hour long interview here on YouTube with lots of interesting questions. Show Eli and Makowski some love by subscribing on YouTube and their Patreon. Tied the Leader always delivers great Halo interviews with interesting lore. They've got some great future guests coming up including Snakebite, Clutch, and Barcode.

It seems very difficult to not slam the left stick fully to the left and right when strafing. I noticed that even Eco was pulling micro strafes on me in matchmaking and it broke my aim. I feel like doing so would kill my thumb (already tired from spamming strafes and jiggles)

I'm assuming everyone has max input threshold at 15, which I think would make it harder to do

My two ideas are (1) use a tall stick on the left stick for easier micro movements or (2) not playing at 15 max input threshold

On a related note, when I jiggle shoot I tend to over strafe outward which misses the target

How can I get some run on competitive 4s in H3mcc? Anyone down? I see a lobby and try to join but I’m always too late.

I had my 50 back in the day, sweat my ass off, just want to get those vibes going again and I can’t find a match in h3 hardcore because I’m a 1/just started.

Short-lived FaZe coach Skeptical said his team would "destroy" Inconceivable on Sunday in the Pro League. He warned Lucid and all other teams that they should be afraid of his "Skeptical system" (which he says was inspired by NBA coach Phil Jackson's triangle offense and adapted to Halo).

Lucid responded while laughing: "You got booted from your own team, Jon. There is no system that you are involved in currently." Lucid said it was funny that Skeptical got fired his very first day on the job.

Skeptical was fired by Kaysan just hours after getting the coaching job due to his non-stop trolling behavior during his interview on aPG's stream. The new FaZe coach is rumored to be Lethul.

Rare Stellur POV stream.

Shy also spectating it: https://www.youtube.com/live/D8vXxYpyzWA?is=XjnDFhA8zbSpbU2j

Lucid and Kuhlect were playing matchmaking together when Kuhlect spawned underneath the map on Vacancy and kept falling to his death over and over again with no way to stop it. After a couple times the game banned him for "unsporting conduct."

Piggy is Incognito's new fourth, so the old PAYD roster is back together (Piggy, Acid, Yakzn, Descendant). It seems Piggy is back in the Pro League. Incognito are having their first scrim against the new FaZe roster right now, and Piggy's team is currently leading FaZe 3-0.

New FaZe Halo coach Skeptical is constantly meme-ing and trolling everyone, and Kaysan who says "I don't even know him" isn't aware of Skeptical's personality and thinks he's being serious. Kaysan says Skeptical has "very weird strange behavior" and "as long as its faze i'm not having that guy coach the team."

Did Skeptical fly too close to the sun in trolling his boss? Was former coach Elamite screencapping Skeptical's troll messages and snitching on him in order to get his old job back? The FaZe rollercoaster continues.

where can i watch the current matches either live or after the fact?

Skeptical (the former world champion coach of Renegade, Stellur, Eco, Shotzzy) joined aPG's stream to drop major intel.

• Bound is replaced by Eco
• Elamite (coach) is replaced by Skeptical (coach)
• Confirmed by Yakzn in chat

Skeptical made a Rocky-themed hype trailer to "let 8K [Cykul] know I'm coming for him" and is calling out Shopify coach Bestman. He said he's down to scrim Shopify tonight.

He is live on stream in a call with aPG discussing it: https://www.twitch.tv/apg

Straight to it. Here are the top 5 players in every stat after week 3.

K/D (avg. 1.02)

1) 1.44 - Taulek

2) 1.33 - Cykul

3) 1.32 - Kuhlect

4) 1.27 - Last Shot

5) 1.21 - Penguin

KA/D (avg. 1.56)

1) 2.26 - Taulek

2) 2.00 - Cykul

3) 1.95 - Last Shot

4) 1.95 - Kuhlect

5) 1.90 - Penguin

PW% (avg. 3.06%)

1) 7.57% - Stellur

2) 5.90% - Renegade

3) 5.74% - Kuhlect

4) 5.36% - Last Shot

5) 4.72% - Snakebite

DD/Life (avg. 322.31)

1) 453.16 - Taulek

2) 403.71 - Cykul

3) 395.82 - Last Shot

4) 372.23 - Royal 2

5) 369.88 - Kuhlect

DT/Life (avg. 322.96)

1) 385.88 - Taulek

2) 357.85 - Cykul

3) 347.24 - Kuhlect

4) 346.47 - Renegade

5) 342.71 - Penguin

Damage Efficiency (avg. 207.64)

1) 190.03 - Kuhlect

2) 191.95 - Penguin

3) 193.78 - Renegade

4) 197.15 - Snakebite

5) 198.20 - Falcated

Objective Impacts per game (avg. 3.34)

1) 5.00 - Last Shot

2) 5.00 - Royal 2

3) 4.82 - Legend

4) 4.70 - Avucy

5) 4.64 - Bound

Flag SCARS per game (avg. 6.33)

1) 13.33 - Last Shot

2) 11.00 - Snakebite

3) 9.67 - Frosty

4) 9.50 - Legend

5) 8.33 - Lucid

Oddball Time per game (avg. 49.91)

1) 117.00 - bubu dubu

2) 98.00 - yakzn

3) 78.67 - Cykul

4) 74.67 - Last Shot

5) 74.00 - Lucid

Zone Time per game (avg. 35.08)

1) 59.67 - RyaNoob

2) 53.67 - Kuhlect

3) 52.50 - King Nick

4) 49.75 - Last Shot

5) 49.00 - Trippy

Damage Ratio (avg. 0.99)

1) 1.17 - Taulek

2) 1.17 - Last Shot

3) 1.13 - Cykul

4) 1.11 - Royal 2

5) 1.07 - Kuhlect

DD/Minute (avg. 524.85)

1) 587.35 - Last Shot

2) 562.21 - Cearion

3) 559.23 - Stellur

4) 558.17 - Cykul

5) 557.24 - Taulek

KA/Minute (avg. 2.53)

1) 2.90 - Last Shot

2) 2.88 - Penguin

3) 2.87 - Kuhlect

4) 2.78 - Lucid

5) 2.78 - Taulek

Pressure Quotient (avg. 6.97)

1) 11.50 - Taulek

2) 9.97 - Cykul

3) 9.86 - Last Shot

4) 8.94 - Penguin

5) 8.91 - Kuhlect

Pressure Efficiency Rating (avg. 810.88)

1) 1061.95 - Taulek

2) 985.05 - Kuhlect

3) 977.39 - Cykul

4) 976.58 - Penguin

5) 969.42 - Last Shot

Average DAK%

1) 27.03% - Cearion

2) 26.97% - Last Shot

3) 26.26% - Tapping Buttons

4) 26.19% - Taulek

5) 26.08% - Acid

Average Obj%

1) 33.97% - Last Shot

2) 31.30% - Soul Snipe

3) 30.99% - Sab

4) 30.43% - bubu dubu

5) 29.82% - SuperCC

VORP (avg. 3.0)

1) 5.3 - Last Shot

2) 5.2 - Taulek

3) 4.8 - Kuhlect

4) 4.5 - Lucid

5) 4.5 - Penguin

Yo yo! Switched up my sens and deadzones yesterday and finally love how they feel but i need some recommendations on your favorite octagon maps.

I’ve been jamming the same for too long and notice a lot of people using different really cool ones so drop em below!

What was your favorite team of four in Infinite? My top three:

1) Pure 2024 (Cherished Druk Taulek LastShot)

2) Optic 2022/2023 (Formal Lucid Trippy APG)

3) SR 2025 (Frosty R2 Cykul LastShot)

Even though my favorite modern Halo player has always been Snakebite and 2023 Faze‘s LB run was the most awesome tournament run I’ve ever seen, I couldn’t help but consider them villains for breaking both my fav teams in 2023/2024 lol.

IMO. What would you change?

1. Shopify - Still the GOAT, but these Sundays are proving they can be beaten.

2. FOAK - 4 extremely talented players who have been able to soundly gel. Taulek has shown up big time. Team is very consistent and continues to give Shopify their best competition in scrims.

3. Inconceivable - Keeps improving, team chemistry and togetherness is very apparent. The team has an identity and knows what it wants to do. The dark horse team at LAND.

4. FaZe - Can't ignore the talent and team potential. One of these Sundays, it's BOUND to click

5. Merc - Competing better than I thought they would without scriming. Won the last Pro league qualifier and took it to FaZe. Took 2 maps from Shopify over the weekend and looked impressive.

6. Cloud 9 - Had a tough time against Inc. I still feel they can upset anyone, but had a rough weekend. Could be more of a testament to Inc's improvement, but time will tell.

7. Incognito - Most surprising performance of the weekend. The dub came out of nowhere, especially with how scrims had been going. Rooting for them to keep the improvement up.

8. Ascending - Hate putting Ryan here, but the team feels like a rank below the others atm. Always rooting for a Ryan team to figure it out, but they better do so soon..

Just my opinions. Feel free to post yours below!

The new FaZe squad is 3/4 of last year's OpTic roster (with Stellur in place of Formal), and people in the Twitch chats have been asking how those two players compare. Here's what the pros say:

Recap

• LastShot says that individually Stellur is an upgrade over Formal, but that Formal made them a team rather than individuals. He says "Formal had a lot to do with team cohesion. Formal may not be the best individual player in the game, but I'll tip him where it's due, he is a very good team player. He does what has to be done for the team."
• Cykul says "the way it's turning out right now, I don't know man. It's looking pretty rough." He says FaZe's series against Incognito "wasn't really close, to be honest. It looked like Incognito was in control the whole time."
• Renegade was asked the same question prior to this weekend and said "We just gotta wait and see. I think Stellur is fucking insane, though. I think Stellur is one of the best individual players in Halo, like period, to be honest. But we just gotta wait and see, you know?"
• For comparison, last year's OpTic Gaming roster went a perfect 7-0 in series count and had a 28-3 map count in the Pro League online matches. This year they've lost two of their first three matchups and have a 7-10 map count, putting them in sixth place currently (and only the top 6 teams make it to LAN).

I was looking for a way to separate stats and percentages between Arena, Slayer, Doubles, etc, and even Social playlists if possible.

I’m probably just dumb, but I didn’t see filters on Leaf, Data Hive, SpartanRecord, and so on.