Halo professionals Ogre 2 and Walshy discuss the importance of communication in an interview:

MLG: How important is communication to competitive/tournament success?

Ogre 2: I’ve always thought communication was the biggest thing. I’m big on communication, I hate playing with teammates who don’t communicate. Definitely whenever I play custom games with random players if I ever have someone on my team who’s not talking it’s one of the most frustrating things. (makes an aggravated noise).

Walshy: Yeah, it’s very important. It got to the point at the end of the season where we had literally specific names – there’s always names for spots like Pink 2 or Carbine – we had specific spots where people would generally go into. Like “someone always goes here and they are always one shot, what do we call that?”

Ogre 2: It’s so much better that way because then as long as everyone is calling out everything they see and you have a mental image of the entire map in your head you know so much more information. Someone calls out that location you have a little dot there and you know where you’re safe and you know where other people are weak.

MLG: Did you find that other teams were communicating with as much depth?

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