
The Master Chief Signal
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Fans
and media were out in full force last night, all waiting for the
launch of
Halo
3
.
I was down at the Dundas Square Best Buy to check out the nights
happenings, and quite a bit was going on. Walking from Yonge St. and
Dundas the crowd was quite noticeable, and arriving at Xbox Canada's
Halo
3
event
tent, the sound was pumping and the atmosphere was high. Inside the
tent, groups of people were taking each other on in Red vs. Blue
eight-on-eight multiplayer. Major
League Gaming Canada was also on hand to promote the upcoming MLG
Canadian Open (November 2
nd
to
4
th
at
the Direct Energy Centre), and MLG Canada's own Nelson “G-SpOt”
Triana (Canada's top ranked gamer) was giving challengers a lesson in
humility, taking them one-on-one and winning every time (he had only
started
playing
Halo
3
earlier that day).
“
Just
like everybody else, I'm playing
Halo
3
for
the first time,” said “G-SpOt” about his presence at the launch
event last night, “but because I'm Canada's top gamer, I have to
play against the challengers. They have my section and a different
section. Whoever wins in the different section comes to me and I play
against them one-on-one. So far I haven't lost. The only person I've
actually lost to is my own teammate, TheBo. He's pretty nasty at
Halo
3
.
He's definitely a good player, but I'll get to him.”
When
asked about the launch of
Halo 3
he
said, “I'm very excited. As soon as I get the game, I'm not even
going to go on Xbox Live to play the multiplayer. I'm going to play
the campaign story first, until I finish it, just because I'm curious
to see what happens. From then I'm probably end up playing on Xbox
Live to play against the rest of the world.”

A Spartan leads the pre-order lineup inside.
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Off
to the side, the lineup started to form in front of the doors at Best
Buy. The numbers were small at first, but the closer it got to
midnight, the bigger the line grew. By midnight, the crowd had been
syphoned into a neat lineup faced towards Best Buy. Finally, just a
few minutes before midnight, the pre-order crowd, who were in a
separate lineup, were marched in, lead by a Spartan. Being handed the
first Legendary Edition, the first person in line triumphantly raised
it for all to see, just before dashing to the registers to pay for
it. Soon after, the rest of the crowd was allowed in (a few at a
time, so everything was calm) and, once they got their copy everyone
rushed home to play.