HCS Salt Lake City Major 2024 – Teams, Format, Predictions & Watch Live

We’re almost at the final HCS Major of 2024, and this time it’s Salt Lake City playing host as the world’s best Halo Infinite teams compete for a cool $250,000 prize pool. After HCS Atlanta Major 2024, there’s something a little more special up for grabs this time around. The top eight teams at HCS Salt Lake City Major 2024 will also qualify for the Halo World Championship 2024, which is set to be held in Seattle in early October.

Watch HCS Salt Lake City Major 2024 Live:

You can tune into all the HCS Salt Lake City Major 2024 action live on the official Halo Twitch channel. There, you can earn a ton of drops for Halo Infinite by watching throughout the event!

HCS Salt Lake City Major 2024 Twitch Drops

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HCS Salt Lake City Major 2024 Format & Teams

The format of HCS Salt Lake City Major 2024 is the same as what we’ve seen from the rest of the Majors this year.

  • Open Bracket: Open Signups, 64 teams max
    • Top 2 from the Upper Bracket advance to Pool Play
    • Top 2 from the Lower Bracket advance to Pool Play
  • Pool Play: four groups of four teams in a round robin
    • 1st and 2nd of each group advance to Championship Upper Bracket Round 1
    • 3rd of each group advances to Championship Lower Bracket Round 1
    • 4th of each group is eliminated
    • All Matches are best-of-five
  • Championship Bracket: 12 teams in a double-elimination bracket
    • All Matches are best-of-five except the Grand Finals, which are best-of-seven with a Bracket Reset

You can also find the Pool Play and Championship Bracket map rotations below:

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HCS Salt Lake City Major 2024 Teams

12 teams are currently locked in for the HCS Salt Lake City Major 2024, with four more set to join via the Open Bracket. The teams have already been separated into four Pools, with one Open Bracket team later being placed into each. This is the current state of play:

Pool A:

  • Spacestation Gaming
  • Sentinels
  • Ascending Baseline EU
  • TBD

Pool B:

  • OpTic Gaming
  • Quadrant
  • Complexity Gaming
  • TBD

Pool C:

  • Shopify Rebellion
  • Into The Breach
  • Cloud9
  • TBD

Pool D:

  • Pure
  • FaZe Clan
  • Native Gaming
  • TBD

HCS Salt Lake City Major 2024 Predictions

HCS Salt Lake City Major 2024

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After winning HCS Atlanta Major 2024, Spacestation Gaming enter this tournament brimming with confidence. Retaining a Major is always a big ask, but we saw enough last time around to believe it can be done in Salt Lake City.

FaZe Clan had a poor 5th-6th place finish back in Atlanta, and need a statement tournament to bounce back. A team like this with something to prove is always going to be a challenge for anyone, so watch out.

Then, there’s Pure. This squad somehow remains org-less despite their impressive run to the Semi-Finals last time out. We’re backing them for a similar performance at HCS Salt Lake City Major 2024, and hopefully they can finally get themselves signed ahead of the Halo World Championship.

The last team we want to talk about is OpTic Gaming. This team have now suffered three successive Grand Final defeats, a painful run stretching as far back as the Halo World Championship 2023. The inability to get over the line at the final hurdle is becoming a real mental block now, and we’re interested to see how it affects them coming into this tournament. If they can finally win a Grand Final, it would be an incredible display of mental resilience from OpTic.