[Mr. Maggot]

It allows for much more people to participate. There are some Austrailians and New Zealanders playing, when the servers are all hosted in USA.

And its as official as haloce has ever been. Organized by HPT which has been doing most if not all the competitive halo tournaments since 2009. (maybe earlier idk)
This isn't a huge tournament only 7 teams have signed up so far, this is more of a warm up to the tournament that starts in April(I think)