Colorado Evolved: World's Biggest Ongoing Live Halo 2 Monthly LAN Tournament!

Hey real ones near Fort Collins, Colorado! If you're a fan of playing Halo 2 on the original Xbox console, then you're in for a treat with Colorado Evolved. This month's meetup: our 2-year LANniversary!

Come to Games Ahoy this Sunday, April 6, 2025 to celebrate with a huge Halo 2 multi-event tournament featuring an amateur bracket, FFA, BTB, pizza, and more!

Our usual setup in the Cove!

Colorado Evolved organizes monthly in-person Halo 2 tournaments on OG hardware and dedicated servers where players can showcase their skills, meet like-minded individuals, and have a blast competing against each other like the Gold Days. Connect with fellow Halo 2 enthusiasts who miss the days when games worked. You're not alone out there, Spartan.

Colorado Evolved can help you get set up in 2025 with everything you need to play Halo 2 again but with some key quality-of-life improvements. The days of glory never ended... Halo 2 never died. We are ushering in the Halo 2 Renaissance with modern technology like Rocky5, Insignia, and XEDUSA+. It is a kickass time to be a Halo 2 fan, and Colorado Evolved is spearheading the most Legendary comeback of all time.

You see, Xbox consoles are failing, yes. Specifically, their DVD drives. However, hardcore Xbox fans have devised ways around using a DVD drive at all, and we at Colorado Evolved have taken it a step further. We have 16 Halo battlestations and dedicated servers ready every month for full lobbies. We are running slimmed-down versions of the game that have all of the DLC and the final auto-update Bungie released (version 1.5) and by using dedicated servers, we believe we have refined the experience beyond anything available at any other LAN in the world.

For this special event, we are debuting an amateur bracket on top of the new servers and battlestations! This is a full version upgrade in terms of production quality. All players can expect a smooth experience, and with our new sponsorship from BEHARBROS, we are even upgrading our setup's wired infrastructure with multiple XEDUSA+'s - an amazing upgrade that enables simultaneous output of your OG Xbox to both Component and HDMI. Whew, lad!

Located conveniently in central USA, Fort Collins is about an hour north of Denver. We packed 5 dudes into a VW Golf and drove all the way to Vegas for the LVL50 last year, so we're pretty confident you can make it out to one of our Legendary LANs.

It's time to save Halo 2. Think you still got it?

Who knew we'd accidentally start a Halo 2 Renaissance?