MLG Win Ruined By Faulty Xbox 360

Kotaku writes : Major League Gaming team Triggers Down came close to advancing towards another tournament win this weekend in Orlando, only to have an equipment failure rob them of the Halo 3 CTF win.

As you can see in the video replay, Triggers Down were mere inches away from a win over rival team Classic. All four members of Classic were down, Heinz had the enemy flag, and just a few short steps from the cap the flag dropped, and couldn't be picked up again. It turns out the host's Xbox 360 froze up, dropping connection for everyone else at a very inconvenient time.

[Obama]

Freezebox 360?

[Chubear]

.. you get what you pay for.

The Xbox360: Gimp in, Pay Beyond.

[-MD-]

"you get what you pay for."

PSN.

[Obama]

We don't pay for psn. Besides, we have lag-free online in most of our games unlike the laggy xbl.

[Bill Gates]

.

[stb]

@murder: you have to be tard or you act as(turn around)!!!!lol guess your bot-tardness doesnt allow u to think, my my.

"you get what you pay for."

Such line can´t be used against psn(did you mention xblv btw if u did then u may be right lol)since regarding online exp, PSN win hand down here!!!so you fail there sir.
Yes this is xbox for you. shtbox ftl.

[-MD-]

I've never been so blown away at someone being unable to form a complete sentence in my life...

[weazel]

"I've never been so blown away at someone being unable to form a complete sentence in my life..." (sic)

I've never been so blown away at someone being unable to form a complete sentence in my ENTIRE/COMPLETE/WORTHLESS/ETC life...(fixed)

Dude, if you're going to criticise, then please use correct grammar and sentence structure yourself. If not, then you may just end up looking like a pompous, conceited twa*.... Ah, wait......too late.

[Game13a13y]

correction: Videogaming Ruined by MS Xbox 360.

[snipermk0]

Murderdolls is not a dude, she's a chick. And a dumb one at that too.

EDIT: I'm wondering.. Where are the other M$ butt buddies?

[-MD-]

Yes a chick, exactly right.

[CernaML]

Your profile is so horribly outdated and full of bad taste, Murderdolls.

[-MD-]

Yeah I stopped coming to this site for a long time so I have yet to update it, lol @ your opinion.

Edit: Your profile is full of nothing...

@ Below - By sandwich you mean KFC right?

[Obama]

Murderdolls, shut up and go make me a sandwich. ;)

[weazel]

......Annnd, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for the inappropriate comments. Keep that sh*t off the forums dude.

[Obama]

LOL you assuming I am black because..?

[Agent Smith]

That kid looked like he was about to cry.

[Tinted Eyes]

That's the Xbox 360 for ya.

[deadreckoning666]

Thank God I decided to wait for the inevitable slimmed down, more energy efficient 360 later this year. I don't know what the problem is with the jackasses at M$ but you'd think they would have fixed the hardware problems already.

[snipermk0]

LMAO.. That was golden!

[TheDeadMetalhead]

lolpwnt

[randomwiz]

Slimming down a console is not an easy task.

You know why the ps3 could do it? Its original chassy was meant to hold the whole emotion engine along with 2 extra usb ports, memory card readers, and a 90nm cell chip(its 45nm now) and cooling elements for the whole thing. And although it was shorter and less wide, the slim is still longer than the original.

If you've ever looked inside a 360 it is extremely cramped in there but if you look inside a 60gb ps3, although it is extremely cramped also, there was a lot of wasted free space(mostly the top of it).

The only way even the thought of a slimmed 360 is even possible is with the Valhalla chip.

[JsonHenry]

Bwuahahahahahaha! I prefer playing on my 360 over my PS3, but even I have to admit I have gone through two and am now on my 3rd xbox. My younger brother just bought an elite two months ago and had to take his back and exchange it out yesterday cause his red lighted him. FAIL!

[Bathyj]

Well, what do you say.

Theres nothing to say really except,

"Is my brother, dumber than a hampster?"

[Noctis Aftermath]

you can blame it on the xbox, but i prefer to blame it on lack of dedicated servers, p2p is terrible.

[beans]

The game froze so what's the big deal? This isn't the 1st a game has frozen so I don' even see why this is making news.

[S M N]

lol

i'm so glad that i'm ps3 player, every thing we take for granted they are privilege in the 360

[FamilyGuy]

Hilarious, what more could I say?

edit:
We all know P2P gaming is at fault here (This could have been an Uncharted 2 online match but it wasn't) but that doesn't make it any less funny.

Something like that was an easy call for the "refs" anyway.

[Dutch Boogie]

"bu bu but p2p is beterz than dedicated serverzzz" lol.

Play Beyond

[LukaX23]

*Watches Microsoft stock drop*

[ChozenWoan]

It's still under that wonderful 3 year warranty. =P

I just wonder if they will suspend the tournament while he waits 3-10 business days for his 360 to get back.

[Chubear]

... and these same people are going to have the gull to talk trash about a 128v128 game when they can hardly get the most popular 8v8 game on the 360 to work properly. Uhm, ok.

Just remember folks, when you see trolls talking smack about MAG's initial launch issues on the 26th(that will likely get cleared within a week), point them to this little gem right here.

Cant' wait for tomorrow to have a retaliatory strike back article on N4G headlined "Gamer loses match cause of PSN faulty servers: you get what you pay for" lmao

[SasanovaS1987]

jump out. Play Beyond.

[Microsoft Xbox 360]

Not surprised.

[rezenu]

Man, that sucks.

[TotalPS3Fanboy]

What did they expect?

[Government Cheese]

I'm failing to see how this was caused by a faulty Xbox 360. It was clearly a connection issue. Typical case of gaming 'journalism' I guess.

[NoBias]

Shhh... You're not allowed to make sense on this site.

Besides, 360 is the only console in which we'll ever see games freeze, right?

I don't get to post too often any more but it's always nice to know this site is still up to it's blind fanboy ways :)

[Shepherd 214]

because that happens every single match and all. Sucks that the system froze, but coming from a guy like me who plays pretty often, this isnt a common occurrence. every system ive ever had freezes ever once in while, and ive had most big systems released in the past 18 years. Grow up a bit.

[Guido]

You know the 360's hardware sucks. You know their online is not that great. You know the PS3 is better and yet you went with the 360. You made your bed MLG, now lie in it.

[mfwahwah]

@1.9

Read the damn article.

"It turns out the host's Xbox 360 froze up, dropping connection for everyone else at a very inconvenient time."

It's not just a game freezing. It's because of a "faulty Xbox 360" just like the title said.

[The Lazy One]

http://finance.yahoo.com/ec...

yea... it's tanking.

[Rowsdower]

are pathetic

[vhero]

*"you can blame it on the xbox, but i prefer to blame it on lack of dedicated servers, p2p is terrible. "* but xbox live gold fees were supposed to pay for dedicated servers.. Obviously that was another lie by MS.

[dgroundwater]

Hundreds of 360's are running all the time at gaming tournaments. I'm surprised one breaking down is even news.

[gaffyh]

@randomwiz - Last time I opened up my 360, I saw a lot of free space, a lot more than when I opened up my PS3 60GB. The PS3 has everything very tightly packed every component on the PCB is tiny/flat, on the Xbox 360 it is like a PC motherboard, with loads of capacitors, that could easily be replaced. There's also a lot of room next to the heatsinks, you could literally fit an entire hand span in there (if you chopped your hand off :p).

So I'd think it is a lot easier for Microsoft to slim down the 360, but seeing the PS3 internals and 360 internals, you can immediately see why Sony has the better hardware, because it is like space-age compared to the 360 motherboard. (Fact not opinion before some fanboy starts crying)

[mfwahwah]

@1.28

If you want to know why it's news then watch the video and read the info on youtube.

Half a second from GUARANTEED victory, which would net them AT LEAST $40,000.

A 360 freezes, refs call for a rematch, and they lose. They lost $40,000 because a 360 over heated and ruined the game. That's a little bit more than "typical" if you ask me.

[Another One]

Oh well. Sh!t happens.

[Bathyj]

Sh*t does just happen.

Arseh*les cause it.

[trancefreak]

Man that suks especially during a tournement, :/

[Shepherd 214]

Arseholes do not always cause it. Arseholes did not make my water pipes freeze up yesterday morning and break, thereby rendering me without running water. Sometimes, sh!t just happens.

[Bumpmapping]

Haha 360 is worthless.

[DigitalHorror81]

I jumped ship the day my 360 Red-ringed. I don't put up with failure. But..but..but..it heats my room...Not anymore it doesn't.

It freezes it.

[Unicron]

Pro/Serious Gamers "console of choice."

[Darkspade]

It wasn't a Console Problem it was a Live problem, I'm not sure why a Gaming Tourny that big would not be System Linked.. oh well it's halo anyways... Just so you know the PSN and Wii( since you brought it up) are far behind Xbox Live online Play service... PSN Moving Close but Still Behind

[TheDeadMetalhead]

"XBL is better! XBL is better!" So many people say this, but does anybody ever give a REAL reason why it's better? No.

[bigjclassic]

Because they only seem to use 360's.

[Somnipotent]

but it is sponsored by Xbox 360 (and therefore Microsoft)... see the site

http://www.mlgpro.com/live/...

[Darkspade]

Halo is xbox 360 Only... They do have PS3 Tourny.

[v1c1ous]

those NEVER freeze up

[Bathyj]

The irony.

You're being sarcastic, yet you're mostly correct.

[Somnipotent]

mine only freezes up when i stream porn on the browser.

[itsralf]

i feel you.

[Sunny_D]

WTF? LMAO! bubbles+

[badz149]

LOL, check you parental control. maybe your mom changed it while you weren't at home! :)

[Finalfantasykid]

Mine on occasion will freeze up if I launch a game immediatly after I have been folding@home. I usually turn off the PS3, then load the game, and I never have any problems.

[Gamer luv]

lies, my PS3 freezes very often at the end of a game on warhawk, just, stops...
i used to have the disc version, but traded it in for some wonga but then decided to buy it just after christmas from the store, same problem..

Ps3 does indeed crash sometimes, my xbox has never actualy crashed, just the red rings lol

[somesonyguy]

that it "froze" when the things are supposedly so hot.

sorry, couldn't help myself...

[happy_gilmore]

unreliable POS

[foxtheory]

that fails to work. Nothing new.

[yogaflame]

this is were xbox 360 makes more sales, from faulty xbox 360 to force you to buy a new xbox 360 again

[gumgum99]

*Eats subway sandwich*

...

[Chubear]

.. I'm guessing nothing new here for you uh?

[badz149]

CLASSIC! +bubbles!

[rezenu]

Lol.

[TheBand1t]

A fail so hard it came back around and turned into a win.

[menoyou]

Serves 'em right for using a console for casuals for a serious gaming event. Also, kotakuLOL.

[stb]

At kotaku...the disarm at crpbox 3flopty.

[Omega Zues]

and during a event like that...kind of reminds me when Bill Gates had his famous Blue screen years ago.

Oh MS, you do live up to your name! Way to go!!

[Gamer luv]

i do believe ur chatting shyte.
anyone who has gone through 7 360s must dropping them down the stairs when they lose.
or are just retarded an dont look after nething

[TheTeam06]

*facepalm*

[JonnyBigBoss]

Reliability will hopefully be taken more seriously after this generation. For example, my Mom's car (Dodge Intrepid) is always having issues. She takes it into the shop regularly and only got the car because she loved how it looks. Similarly, I have several friends with Xbox 360s and they have all had RROD. They have to send it in to get repaid and only got the console because it came out 1-year early.

[hadouken007]

ha ha ha ha ha,ha ha ha ha aw man, damn.

[Troll_Police]

MLG needs to start using PS3s if they want reliable consoles. The Xbox 360 can't be trusted for MLG.

[MegaPowa]

LOL killzone2? uncharted's online is great but not as good as halo imo

[Consoldtobots]

KZ2 or Socom:Confrontation are MUCH more hair trigger and competitive than Halo.

[FantasyStar]

I hate it when people keep picking up the flag and dropping it. It's so annoying for everyone playing.

Flag dropped.
Flag taken.

Flag dropped.
Flag taken.

Flag dropped.
Flag taken.

Flag dropped.
Flag taken.

Flag dropped.
Flag taken.

Flag dropped.
Flag taken.

Flag dropped.
Flag taken.

You ask me, those MLG guys deserve any bad-luck like the YouTube video because they annoy just about every other non-MLG player with their annoying tactics. Flag-carriers doing that purposely are just being douchebags.

[RockmanII7]

They don't do that to be annoying, they do it because when you cycle the flag you run at normal speed as apposed to being slowed down by the flag. Besides if you hate it when people do that, just go to where the flag is and kill them.

[Halo3 MLG Pro]

LOL! You noob. Their is a reason why they do that. Wow! Thanks for setting this kid straight baseballfan.

[SoX FireBlade]

I love taking the flag and do the trick xD

MLG players FTW

[blahblah123]

Microsoft subcontracts to Flextron, all 360s are made in China. My chess set never gets dead batteries or gives a blue error screen.

Now chess, there's a REAL tournament game. Halo tournament? Ahahahahahahahah. Tic Tac Toe takes more skill.

[armogangsta]

it looked like xbl just had problems

[X]

This is the only thing I can think of for this

[Microsoft Xbox 360]

LOL.

[I Make Xbots Cry]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[timotei]

I'm seriously dying laughing ove here haha

[Fatmanp]

All the idiots going on about p2p. it was on LAN.

[Consoldtobots]

it has nothing to do with WAN or LAN, peer to peer is used when you don't have a dedicated server, be it over LAN or WAN(internet).

how's that foot taste?

[CryWolf]

MLG need to get rid of xbot altogether cause it have the highest failure rate in history of consoles when will they learn that Microshit will never fix the overheating problems and freeze problems.

[NotSoSilentBob]

More then likely wasn't a faulty system, but a "dropped" net connection by the team that knew they were going to loose.

[Cherchez La Ghost]

Yea, that was the wrong time. But every system I had froze on me PSP, 360, PS3, Xbox & PS2. Don't sit here and act it only happens to the 360.

[DJ]

It's that it happens Most on the Xbox 360.

[Cherchez La Ghost]

I had the 1st batch launched 360 Elites and I had it to lock up on me no more than 8 times until now. My PS3 locked up on me around 2 times.Why more on the 360?! Because I play that mofo 20 times more than my PS3 (except for Blu-Ray movies). It dosen't matter how many times, the sheit happend to me on both consoles. Once is more than enough. I love both systems. But do you see me taking sides and fakin like one is better than the other?! NO!!

[Empire X]

Classic.

[Ninjamonkey82]

PS3 ftw ey ?

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Pffffffhahahaha!

[ThatCanadianGuy]

What a terrible console lmao

[ack591]

I thought it was RRoDed.

[DJ]

Should've used PS3s.

[KillerPwned]

That was priceless! Shame on you MLG should of used the PS3! lol

[HappyTrigger]

With what game? Killzone 2?! Uncharted 2?! I've played both and none of them seem as intense as pro MLG Gears of War or Halo 3.

Though, this is funny. Xbox 360 fails, as usual... Should have use a PS....... Oh wait.

;)

[RockmanII7]

sux4him

[shiver130]

I actually loled so hard during and after reading this article.

[Sagetech]

Two words "PLAY BEYOND"

[BX81]

Droids unite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What is sad it that if this happened for the PS3, and it does freeze often bots would be in here like it was xmas making comments. U all are sad and I hope u all die in a horrible snow storm!!!!!!

[Halo3 MLG Pro]

Classic sony fanboys trolling another 360 thread with their predictable hate. Must be the new shots of Halo Reach that actually exceed Killzone 2. :) Their is nothing on the ps3 that is worthy of MLG gaming. NOTHING!

BTW, this video was classic.

[Neo604]

good news, for the other team.

[Gun_Senshi]

They just sponsor the most popular games, the ones for casuals and that are not fit for competitive tournaments.

[peeps]

tbh halo is easily the most popular AND most competitve game on consoles. if it wasn't they wouldn't support it.

why would any company say, hey we'll support game x despite the fact that very few ppl play it and it's just not balanced

[Socomer 1979]

It's not hard.
Killzone2 is Hard. RealHard.
Dedicated ServerS are Hardcore.
White Bread can't Hang in the Killers Zone.
Give me a propaganda radio & I'll run the touchdown with bot aerial support & sub machine gun with the Saboteur class. Flags? Ha! FcK Flags!

[Socomer 1979]

When it happened everyone cycled thru thier Rolodex of glitches For the culprit but you his first suspect was RROD.

Made MLG look even cheaper & low budget than ever.
Great Job America. I think I'll pass on buying those missles
from your factories. BeeP BeeP!

[evilmonkey501]

It's a good thing Microsoft doesn't make missiles. Everything they make besides software just plain SUCKS.

[OmarJA-N4G]

HAHAHAHAHA! OMG!

[divideby0]

what was the name of the Madden league that went PS3 this year.

wonder why.

I so much enjoy seeing stuff like this. I am on my 3rd launch gimped 360.. MS just sucks at hardware...

[Crystallis]

Now which 360fanboy on this site said RROD and freezing is no longer an issue? Just bc you dont hear articles on this site about RROD problems doesnt mean it magicaly went away. My buds 360 RRODed two weeks ago so i dont want to hear "bu bu bu bu the rrod is no longer an issue" crap.

[dkgshiz]

Gaming is a hobby not a sport. I like video games a lot. Professional gaming how ever is just dumb.

[SSCOOLCHEA]

If you didnt suck so bad . If I can only play games and win money .(but i'm not that good either ) Thats such a bad idea to you .....Another foolish BOT

[CernaML]

"Professional" gaming my ass. All I see them do is play Halo 3 24/7. THAT'S IT.

[devilhunterx]

look how the xboys try their best to defend the broken-box 2

[vShinobi]

This is funny but I can't see the video its been disabled...

[Socomer 1979]

afterhours from the MLG...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Socomer 1979]

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[N4BmpS]

Im pretty sure that guy was thinking, "Screw you XBOX, SCREW YOU TOO MLG! WHERE'S MY MONEY?"

[artsaber]

Is getting harder and harder to defend for Microsoft. That is the worst loss ever... a terrible way to "NOT win".

[timotei]

HAHAHAHA this made my week

[N1ko]

You don't know how pissed I was when I heard this happened, this is actually the main reason why tD lost to Classic and then placed 5th.

[tudors]

are some of you so sad that you would use a system freeze as propaganda to trash another system, that's pathetic, you people are truly sad, don't tell me the PS3 does not freeze, I have heard numerous stories of it being notoriously bad for freezing, but who cares systems freeze, if there was an article stating a PS3 froze and spoiled a tournament I would say 'so what', what is the big deal, so a bunch of spoilt kids got thrown out of a tournament when they were winning, and it was restarted and they lost....big wow!!! the problem is not that the system froze but the rules of the tournament that need changing, e.g if it happened when they were 3 flags in front and only needed one more flag then just start the match again with the loosing team starting on a minus and the team that needed one still only needs one.

For goodness sakes who do you guys blame when there is a earthquake. We are in a recession, world corruption and poverty are on the rise, the rich play and the poor prey. This is easy the worst article I have ever seen on this website. Pathetic.

[divideby0]

my launch PS3 has 0 hardware problems...same as my launch PS2 and my slim PS2, not a launch unit..all running to date fine...

personally if MS was honest and righteous about their hardware problems, vs blatantly lieing about it, I would feel differently about my 3rd launch 360...

and even though I sent them all documentation about my RROD, they would not reimburse me...I wont even go into that story

so yea. I read this stuff and I say good MS is getting what they deserve, more buying PS3s and PS3 games are making my 360 games look like what they are...early this gen..

[AgileNate]

To those going on about this MLG and the connection.

This has nothing to do Xbox Live, as MLG is played using system link for best performance. It was the Xbox itself that caused the issue.

Also, MLG isnt 360 exclusive, its just that Halo is their biggest game because of its ongoing rivalries and MLG's ability to adjust the maps to their liking. It also helps that they sponsor the program.

[dagreylion]

C'MON SON, F@*K GOING ON WITH THAT BULL$H!T, THAT'S SOME FOUL ISH RIGHT THERE. THEM BOYS JUST GOT ROBBED OF THERE TITLE, WALKING OUTTA THERE WITH THEIR HEADS DOWN PISSED OFF. MS NEED TO ANTE UP AND PAY TRIGGERS DOWN FOR THAT MISHAP. SHAME ON THAT TRASHBOX 3SHITY FOR FREEZING UP UNEXPECTEDLY. POS GAMING CONSOLE

[Pirateogta]

Welcome to the 3rd Place PS3 Reassurance Comments Section. Enjoy your stay! And make sure you reassure your fellow PS3 fanboy brethren. It's tough being in last place!

[dagreylion]

A$$Wipe this story was about that ever so relieble trashbox 3shity freezing in the middle of a tournament. What place the console is in had nothing to do with it. But if you must talk sales PS3 sales has increased year over year, closing the gap to a measly 5.5 million. So stay tune you will soon see what it feels like to be on top and getting knock down. It will feel really bad for all xbots that post stupid ish on this site. Kinda like when you dated that really hot chick and found out her joint was bigger than yours, but I'm quite sure you didn't mind

[Goldenarmz]

So i guess if the TV had suddenly blew out, it would be because of the 360 i guess? Get real ppl.

[MRMagoo123]

what kinda statement it that it wasnt the tv that died it was the 360 so of course its the 360s fault whos fault could it be but the console that froze how can u even spin this at all that way.you need to get real.

[Coolrah]

all Fanboyism aside that just sucks if it happened to anybody....

Lol look at the bots on damage control....