Hitman Bingo 2

Hitman Bingo 2 was a HITMAN 3 event hosted by Providence. Tournament assets are provided by Mando, GKPunk, Crewdy and Gunther, with the event being sponsored by In4Fun.

After a successful first edition, Providence bought live hitman bingo back, 8 months after the first tournament. Due to feedback from the last tournament, aspects from the original ruleset changed. The any suit start still stood, however, player's loadouts would now be a silenced ICA19 Pistol, Coins and now a lockpick, replacing the fiber wire used in HB1. Non-lockout bingo was still claiming any 2 lines on the board and was still able to claim same tiles as your opponent. The main changes came to the lockout bingo. Where in HB1 once you claimed a tile, that was it, you had it and you're opponent couldn't claim it. You could restart and still have it, you could replan and still have it. This changed in HB2, although it was still first to 10 tiles, if you restarted, the tile would still be yours but it would be a half-tile, meaning you'd have to do the tile again in your run, just your opponent couldn't claim it. The other big change came with replanning. If you replanned to a new starting location, all tiles you had would be lost and up for grabs again, this was to stop players quickly loading in multiple starts to get 1 or 2 quick tiles from an available starting location. Similarly, the bracket become double elim with FT3 games. Even after this somewhat major changes, the tournament still lived up to the great expectations held above it.

The reigning champion, Phanium, kick started the tournament with the first game against Linux_penguin. After a very close Paris where a slight scare from Linux_penguin could've caused a first map upset, a misjudgment of exits meant that Phanium was able to take Paris comfortably in the end. Bangkok was were it nearly went wrong for Phanium as multiple NTKs occurred for him with the restaurant chandelier kill on Ken. Fortunately for him, Linux_penguin could put the final pieces of his run together and Phanium went through to the second round, after a shacky performance on his standards.