This August, Airlock worked with Spacestation Gaming & HCS to host The HCS Global Invitational Salt Lake City 2023. A one-of-a-kind Halo event hosted in Salt Lake's home for rock and roll, at The Depot in Salt Lake City featuring a 22,000 square foot expo space with games, booths, scavenger hunts, and stages. Airlock worked side by side with 3 venues, 6 vendors, sold out over 500 tickets to the main stage event, pulled over 3,000 people to the expo center, and over 1.2 million views online. Airlock put countless hours of love and passion into The HCS Global Invitational Salt Lake City 2023, earning it the community-given title of one of the best halo events in history. Airlock took the innovative content that defined The Spartan Snowdown and added a blacklight-drenched neon streets-inspired venue that paid homage to the history and culture of Halo. To top it off, Spacestation Gaming walked away as the hometown heroes with a first-place finish in Salt Lake City.