Welcome to the CompetitiveHalo HCS Global Invitational at DreamHack Dallas Megathread - June 2nd - Day 1!
If there is any additional information you find helpful please post and our mod team will update this thread throughout the event!
HCS Socials

• HCS Twitter
• HCS Instagram

Follow Along

• DreamHack Dallas Liquipedia
• Halo Data Hive
• Pool Play
• Champ Bracket - TBA
• A Stream - Twitch.tv/Halo Halo YouTube
• B Stream - Twitch.tv/HCS HCS YouTube
• C Stream - Twitch.tv/HCS_Red HCS YouTube
• D Stream - Twitch.tv/HCS_Blue HCS YouTube
• LVT Halo Coverage - Twitch.tv/LVTHalo
• EZ Esports Spanish Coverage - Twitch.tv/EZEsportsLATAM

Schedule

• Friday - 6/2 at 10:30 AM CST
• Saturday - 6/3
• Sunday - 6/4

Pools & Rosters

• Pool A
  • (NA) Spacestation Gaming – StelluR, Eco, Bound, Penguin
  • (NA) Hive – Huss, Neuronical, Precision, Swish
  • (NA) Shopify Rebellion – Rayne, MentaL, RyaNoob, Karmea
  • (ANZ) BitterSweet - Scoobmeistr, Dxvinity, Ryu, Ninjestics
• Pool B
  • (NA) FaZe Clan - Royal2, Frosty, Renegade, SnakeBite
  • (NA) Native Gaming White – Mikwen, Tapping Buttons, Barcode, Gilkey
  • (NA) Sentinels – Lethul, Spartan, King Nick, Suspector
  • (MX) Six Karma - Sepstars, Strikeyy, Acid, Leuor
• Pool C
  • (NA) OpTic Gaming – Lucid, APG, Trippy, FormaL
  • (NA) Gamers First/G1 – Suppressed, bubu dubu, Sab, Falcated
  • (EU) Quadrant – Tchik, SLG, Legend, Sica
  • (EU) JLINGZ Esports - Clonely, Septiq, Respectful, Tuf0xy
• Pool D
  • (NA) Native Gaming Red - Taulek, BoamX, Soul Snipe, Manny
  • (NA) Complexity – Cykul, Tusk, Kuhlect, MoNsTeR
  • (EU) NAVI – Jimbo, zMightys, SNIPEDRONE, Snakey
  • (EU) Aw0babobs - Glory, MOSE, Lumizur, Phlux

Pool Play

• 4 groups of 4 teams
• Single round-robin
• Best of 5 series
• Top 2 teams in each group placed in Winners Round 1
• 3rd place team will be placed in Elimination Round 1
• 4th place team will be eliminated from tournament

Championship Bracket

• 12 Teams
• Double Elimination
• Best of 5 Series
• Grand Finals will be Best of 7

Gametypes and Maps

• Slayer: Aquarius, Live Fire, Recharge, Streets, Empyrean
• Capture the Flag: Aquarius, Argyle, Empyrean
• Strongholds: Live Fire, Recharge, Streets
• Oddball: Live Fire, Recharge, Streets
• King of the Hill: Live Fire, Recharge, Streets

Twitch Drops

• Watch 2 hours any day for the Ember Hex Sidekick coating
• Watch 2 hours of co-streamers any day for the Ember Hex AR coating
• Watch 2 hours on Saturday and/or Sunday for the Ember Hex Commando coating
• Watch 2 hours on Sunday for the Ember Hex Bulldog coating
• Watch the Grand Finals on Sunday for 45 minutes for the Ember Hex BR coating
• Be sure to link your Twitch account to your Halo Waypoint!

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USPI	Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) PRN OR North Central Surgical Center	Dallas
Texas Capital Bank	Client Service Associate	Dallas - Corporate Headquarters
Texas Capital Bank	Cloud Platform Engineer	Dallas- Tx
Texas Capital Bank	Application Security Manager	Dallas- Tx

Hey guys, here are some recent job openings in dallas. Feel free to comment here or send me a private message if you have any questions, I'm at the community's disposal! If you encounter any problems with any of these job openings please let me know that I will modify the table accordingly. Thanks!

Not sure why Google Maps doesn't have this already.
I'm building a mobile app (like this chrome extension I built) that takes my multi-stop route on Google Maps and rearranges it to give the fastest, most efficient route (TSP Problem). It basically tells me what stops I should go to in what order to ensure that I’m spending the least amount of time and gas on the road.
With over 13k users on the extension, everyone has been telling me to build this into an app so I plan on launching this summer, please let me know what features you would like to see! You can join the waitlist here: App Waitlist:)
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I’m in Dallas for a few days, anyone has seen any one piece tcg recently or has any recommendations on places where I might find some?

I'm a 29M Hispanic nerd who wants to have some fun this weekend and lose his viginity. I'm 5'10, 180 pounds, I can send pics if asked. I can't host but can travel and pay for a hotel, whichever feels safer for you. Age and race doesn't matter to me, Just looking for someone who is either looking to teach me or someone who wants to experience their first time as well.
Send me a PM if interested

The draft is less than 3 weeks away, and as the draft approaches, we'll get an increasingly clearer idea of what will happen this offseason. So, while we still don't know what will happen try to predict the 2023 offseason. For reference, here's what we did last offseason according to Basketball Reference:
Trades:

1. Traded Jerami Grant, pick #46 to Portland for Milwaukee's 2025 1st, pick #36, 2025 2nd, 2026 2nd
2. Traded Milwaukee's 2025 1st to New York for the draft rights to Jalen Duren, Kemba Walker
3. Traded Nikola Radičević's draft rights, Detroit's 2025 2nd to New York for cash, Alec Burks, Nerlens Noel, Detroit's 2023 2nd, 2026 2nd
4. Traded cash, Saben Lee, Kelly Olynyk to Utah for Bojan Bogdanovic

Draft: #5: Jaden Ivey, #13: Jalen Duren, #36: Gabriele Procida
Free Agency: Signed Kevin Knox and Rodney McGruder
This offseason we will have $27,979,371 in cap space if we draft at #5 and #31. In terms of draft capital, we have pick #5 and #31 and 2nds from other teams but we can't trade any future 1sts due to New York having our protected 1st.
Here's my prediction:
Trades:
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I predict we make 1 trade, a 3-team trade with New York and Dallas. For New York, they'll turn Evan Fournier into Bojan, and 3 2nds for future trades. Going from Evan Fournier to Bojan would be great for them, they lost to the Eastern Conference champions in 6 games in the second round, and with Bojan added to their roster they'd have a better shot at making the conference finals next year. Washington's 2024 2nd is going to be good as Washington is likely to be worse next year than they were this year (for reference, their 2nd this year is pick #37.)
For Dallas, they'd get a young center that still has some potential, Burks, their 2024 1st, and pick #31. Their own 1st next year could be used in future trades. Pick #31 is a good spot to select a player like James Nnaji who could be a solid selection for a team that needs bigs.
We'd be giving up Bojan, Burks, Wiseman, pick #31, and 3 future 2nds for #10 and our own protected 1st back. #10 could be used to select a long-term piece, which will fit the long-term focus the front office has considering the length of Monty's contract. We have to get our protected 1st back if we want to ever trade future 1sts, which will happen if we ever want to trade for a star. This would make us worse next year but would help us in the long term. Fournier's contract is only 1 year since year 2 is a team option, and Bertans's contract is only $5 million next year.
Draft: #5 Ausur Thompson, #10 Leonard Miller
Ausur Thompson would be great for the team defensively, and he's a good playmaker too which will be important in Monty's offensive scheme. The biggest problem with Ausur is his 3pt shooting, but he's improved a lot over the course of the past year and he'll get a lot more open shots with Cade and Ivey setting him up than he did in OTE.
Leonard Miller has great size for somebody who is currently playing SF, he measured in at 6' 9.25'' without shoes at the combine (6th tallest height at the draft combine). He's a great rebounder, he averaged 11 rebounds per game this season including 3.3 offensive rebounds per game. He's not a great shooter but has improved this season. He can become a much better player with an NBA training staff helping him put on weight as he only measured in at 212.8 pounds at the combine.
Free Agency:
The trade mentioned before, combined with selecting at #5 and #10 would leave us $32,368,568 in cap space. With that money, I predict we'd sign Jerami Grant to a 4 year, $120 million deal. This is an overpay, but not much of one considering Portland already offered him a 4 year, $112 million extension. Cade, Ivey, and Duren are all under rookie deals for a couple more seasons so our roster will be cheap so it's not that big of a deal if we pay Jerami $2 million more per season than another team would. The setup of the contract would make the deal better over time as it'll be a flat contract and the salary cap increases each season.
It looks like Portland is looking to trade for Pascal Siakam so Jerami may be looking for a new team, and with the Monty hire, Ivey and Duren on the roster, and year 3 Cade Cunningham we are a much more attractive destination then we were when Jerami was traded 1 year ago. Jerami would be a great 3rd option on our team, as he's played as a 3rd option very well in Portland scoring 20.5 points per game, shooting 40.1% from 3 on 5.7 attempts per game, and while being a good defender.
For our own free agents, I predict we re-sign Hamidou and Cory Joesph to league-minimum contracts.
And, our last signing will technically be a trade as we'd have to send a 2nd to the Kings for his draft rights. That player is 2023 Euroleague MVP Sasha Vezenkov. He's a 6'9" PF who's a good shooter, he shot 39.8% from 3 on 5.2 attempts per game in the Euroleague and he's a good rebounder and decent defender too. He averaged 26.8 points per game during EuroBasket 2022, which is more than Luka averaged. He also led EuroBasket 2022 with 12.2 rebounds per game. He'll only be 28 to start next season, so if he works out he could be a solid medium-term player for us.
The Lineup:

Cade	Ivey	Ausar	Grant	Duren
Hampton	Fournier	Leonard	Vezenkov	Stew

Cade, Ivey, Ausar, and to a lesser extent Duren are all solid to good playmakers, and Grant has the reputation of being a good scorer so our pass-heavy offense should work well. As I mentioned before, Grant will be the 3rd option, with Ivey as the 2nd option, and Cade as the 1st option. Defensively, an Ausar, Grant, and Duren frontcourt would be quite good, too. Cade, Ivey, and Grant all have the potential to average 20 points per game, but it's the bench that's the problem offensively.
I think we'll make RJ Hampton the backup PG over Killian because RJ is a much better shooter than Killian and we'd need shooting on the bench. Fournier has had a bad couple of years, but he could be a decent bench guy since there isn't the Boston/New York media to criticize every missed shot and error he makes so he should be under much less pressure. We would still have a lot of holes on our roster and a lot of moves to make, but we won't go from worst in the league to championship contenders over 1 offseason.

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Any couples thinking about Lidos on Fri night?
Dallas, TX

IETF and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 has a things like en-US American_English
ISO 639-2 includes not only individual language codes but also broader language group codes that represent families or groups of related languages. These group codes are used to categorize languages that share a common origin, linguistic features, or historical relationship. For example, consider the Afro-Asiatic language family, which includes languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, and Hausa, among others. ISO 639-2 assigns the language group code "afa" to represent the Afro-Asiatic language family as a whole. Each individual language within this family has its own unique three-letter code, such as "ara" for Arabic, "heb" for Hebrew, "amh" for Amharic, and "hau" for Hausa.
ISO 639-3 - Only has 3 letter for each "dialect".
Algerian Arabic is Arabic - Maghrebi Arabic - Algerian Arabic. ISO 639-3 arq
For it I thinking something like - Ar-Mb-Al
"Ar" represents Arabic, the main language family or group.
"Mb" represents Maghrebi Arabic, the broader dialect group that includes Algerian Arabic.
"Al" represents Algerian Arabic, the specific sub-dialect within the Maghrebi Arabic group.

Nothing already exists/proposed standard for it.

How do I draft a standard ?

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4 Level

En-GB-Ln-S (South London English) - English: En Dialect: En-GB (British English) Sub-Dialect: En-GB-Ln (London English) Another Sub-Dialect: S
En-US-Tx-Ho (Houston Texas English)
En-GB-Sc-Ed (Edinburgh Scottish English)
En-CA-Qc-Mt (Montreal Quebec English)
Es-ES-Ca-Md (Madrid Castilian Spanish) - Spanish - European Spanish- Sub-Dialect: Es-ES-Ca (Castilian Spanish) - Sub-Dialect 2 : Md
Hi-IN-UP-Al (Allahabad Uttar Pradesh Hindi) - Hindi: Hi Dialect: Hi-IN (Indian Hindi) Sub-Dialect: Hi-IN-UP (Uttar Pradesh Hindi) Another Sub-Dialect: Al
Zh-CN-Sh-Js (Jiangsu Shanghai Dialect) - Chinese Zh Dialect: Zh-CN (Simplified Chinese) Sub-Dialect: Zh-CN-Sh (Shanghai Dialect) Another Sub-Dialect: Js
Ar-MA-Rb-Mq (Meknes Rabat Moroccan Arabic) - Moroccan Arabic - Rabat Moroccan Arabic

3 Level

En-GB-Sc (Scottish English) - English: En Dialect: En-GB (British English) Sub-Dialect: Sc

1+ Cities with similar Dialects

3 Level - En-IN-Dl/Mm (Mumbai Delhi English)
2 Level - En-AU/Ns/Sy (Sydney New South Wales English)

Accent

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