If you changed your tag since the Reach Beta...

• Under My Account, on the General Tab, there's a new place to enter in your tag name for the Reach Beta. 
• This is useful if you renamed your tag since the beta and still want your stats to show on your Overview page
• The reason for this is that you can no longer collect Reach Beta stats, so the stats that were stored on HaloCharts may still be tied to your old tag name.

New Group Settings!

• You can now setup a Request Auto-response for your groups.  This is basically a message that is sent to the person requesting to join the group.  The message supports BBcode and can be used to inform them about your group or any specific instructions you need them to have in regards to joining the group.
• You can now turn off the option that allows Requests to join your groups.  If you turn this off members will not be allowed to request to join your group.  This is useful if you want a group to remain more private and not have to deal with requests to join it.
• Both of these settings are under the Edit Group page which you can get to from the My Groups section of the site.

HaloCharts Mobile Updated!

• hensods has been hard at work updating the mobile version of HaloCharts to include a few things.
• First, the Stats section now shows Halo 3 and Reach, so once Reach comes out, you'll have quick access to many of your stats on the go!
• The Forums have been updated to show unread post counts next to each Forum section and will also show unread topics as bold, read topics as normal and locked topics as gray
• The Groups section has been improved to correctly list all of the groups you own and the groups you are in
• The overall appearance of the app has been improved some as well with a few graphics and some text to help explain a few things

Two Very Irritating Things Fixed :)

• First thing fixed today that was highly irritating to many people:  When you edit a post, you will now be returned to the correct page and the actual post you just edited.
• Second thing fixed that was highly irritating to many people: My Messages now has Page Numbers, so for all of you that keep lots of messages the list will load much faster
• More to come!

• In preparation for Halo Reach we are expecting a lot of new comers and an increase in forum and overall website activity. The rules have been given a bit of a face lift as a result.
• The rules are pretty much the same, some have been detailed out a little bit more to give better explanations to them. There have also been several small additions.
• Whether your new or old it never hurts to check up on the old rule book... Click the image below!

I wanna play! Anyone up for some Big Team Battle?

• Player Page Awards for any player that crosses my path and plays at least one game with or against me Saturday night.
• Special Player Page Awards for any player that impresses me during those games (pre and post game lobbies are not off the table for consideration)
• Game performance
• Teamwork
• Sportsmanship
• Whatever else might seem appropriate
  
• Extra Special Awards for some Extra Special Objectives!!!
• These will be detailed later.
• Awards and Points for Player Pages at HaloChallenges.com

GROUP NIGHT IS LIKE NOW!

• HC's Greatest Group Night has pretty much already kicked off.  We expect many many people to take part from now till late tonight.
• For full information on the events taking place, check out this forum topic
• Come be a part of it and send Halo 3 out with a bang!

The Gauntlet 2 & ENDURANCE

• The HCPL is running two awesome tournaments that will be taking place soon...

• The Gauntlet is coming back for its second appearance at Halocharts on Friday September 3rd so gather your team or come by yourself if you think you have what it takes to bring down the HCPL. Spots are going to be filling up rather quick so click here now to SIGN-UP for The Gauntlet 2

• Endurance is a brand new tournament making its first appearance, it is going to be a 48 man FFA tournament featuring the HCPL COMP TEAM on Friday September 10th. Come play some of the best FFA players the HCPL has to offer in this throwback style Halo CE gametype. Click here now to SIGN-UP for Endurance.

• Everyone that plays is guaranteed to earn some awards for your player pages, we look forward to the challenge and hope to see  a bunch of you at game time.

Halo 3 will be leaving on good terms...

• This month fielded 8 winners. With Halo 3 dieing out there isn't many left still snapping awesome screenshots like their used to be, but thats OK we got enough for the month.
• Congratulations to this months winners.
• These will be available for signature AND player page use soon. view the Winners Archive for names.

Congratulations again to this months winners. The signature system for Halo Reach is going to bigger and better than ever with all new layouts, more stats and more variety. It is going to take us some time to get it set up but once it is up and running this monthly contest will be returning. I would like to give EVERYONE that has submitted to this monthly my personal THANK YOU! You guys have been a huge part of keeping the HC signature system alive. I hope to see all the communities wonderful screenshot takers back submitting for Reach. Until then, take care!