Well today marks day 2 of the Halo 3 US Championships. I don't play at all anymore, but I was at a friends house who had entered the tournament to try to win $50,000. The tournament lasts 7 days and you can play all night to increase your rank and prove you are the greatest Haloer of them all. If you win the whole thing you take home this lofty prize. If you place in the top 32 you get flown to New York with all expenses paid to compete to win the money. It seems really easy until 12,000 people enter; people who probably don't have jobs, and who probably don't really know how to do anything else, and who if given the chance would actually love to become a real character in the game. As I laughed at my friend, I realized that he was serious about this. He really wanted $50,000 and not only that, he was going to stay up all night to try to do it. Anyway, Halo has become somewhat of a phenomenon. People have wasted hours and even days, and some even months to play this addictive 1st person shooter. I don't get it. The joy of shooting a fake monster with fake guns in a fake world only catch my attention for so long before I need something real to wake me up. I guess some people like to Halo their way through life while others do what they want. Well good luck to you all. I would just really like to meet the guy who wins... I bet he is only 15 yrs old... so sad.
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