HyperX OC Takeover Season III Final

HyperX® will bring ten of the world’s best overclockers to HyperX Headquarters in Fountain Valley, California for the HyperX OC Takeover (HOT) Season III Finals, a live extreme overclocking competition.
Two spots each from South America, Asia, Europe and North America will be won through one global online qualifier. One spot will be a wild card draw from the top 20 and the last spot will be filled by 2014’s HOT champion. The competition is open to any member of HWBOT (subject to the Event’s Terms and Conditions). Global online qualifiers will take place October 19–November 8, 2015, and the finals will be held at HyperX headquarters on December 16–17, 2015.
HyperX OC Takeover Season III Final Roadmap
Competition Hardware
- Memory: HyperX Predator DDR4-3466 AFR 4GB modules
- Motherboard: MSI Z170A XPower Gaming Titanium Edition
- Processor: Intel Core i5 6600K
- SSD: HyperX Fury SSD 120GB
- Power Supply: CoolerMaster V850 850W PSU
- Operating system: Windows 8.1
- Graphic card: MSI GTX780Ti Lightning MOA Edition
- Bios: HOT version
- Thermal paste: Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut
Competition Benchmarks
- 16/12 12.30 - 14.00: Max Memory Clock
- 16/12 15.00 - 17.00: Intel XTU @ 5GHz
- 17/12 12.00 - 14.30: 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score
Scoring:
- 2D: 70-63-56-49-42-35-28-21-14-7
- 3D: 60-54-48-42-36-30-24-18-12-6
General Rules
- Only the 10 winners of the online qualifiers are allowed to take part, no exterior help (contestants can of course speak between themselves but everything needs to stay fairplay).
- Contestants can ask to bring friends and relatives to the contest venue.
- The rules can be modified until the day of the event, all contestants would then be informed
- Contestants are free to do anything they want during preparation time, liquid nitrogen will be available.
- Any hardware broken during this time slot will not be replaced.
- Contestants can submit new results at any time during the benchmark dedicated time.
- Once reviewed the score is entered in the scoreboard.
- If a benchmark run is started right before the end of the benchmark time slot, the result will be valid.
- The organization has the right to ask a contestant to re-run a benchmark to verify results.
Timeframe
The contest runs from Oct 19, 2015 11:00 AM to Nov 8, 2015 10:59 AM (GMT-7). It is divided into 3, 1-week long periods:
- Week 1: Oct 19, 2015 11:00 AM to Oct 25, 2015 10:59 AM (GMT-7)
- Week 2: Oct 26, 2015 11:00 AM to Nov 2, 2015 10:59 AM (GMT-7)
- Week 3: Nov 2, 2015 11:00 AM to Nov 8, 2015 10:59 AM (GMT-7)
The lucky draw winners will be announced on Nov 15, 2015 11:00 AM (GMT-7).
Final winner announcement
The winners for each region and the wild card winner will be announced on Nov 15, 2015 11:00 AM (GMT-7) on HyperX official website and HWBOT website. All the prizes will be shipped to the winners within 30 days from the announcement by HyperX.
HyperX will pay all shipping cost. Should tax liability arise, it will be the responsibility of the winner to notify its (their)own Government's relevant tax department. HyperX takes no responsibility or liability for taxation.
Prizes
Grand prizes
The winners for each region and the wild card winner will receive an all-expense paid trip to HyperX Headquarters in Fountain Valley, CA to compete for the $15,000 HOT World Finals.
Lucky draw prizes
Each of the three prize bundles consist of the following hardware items:
- HyperX Predator PCIe SSD 480GB
- HyperX Predator DDR4-3000 4x8GB 32GB
- MSI Z170A XPOWER Gaming Titanium Edition
- Cooler Master VSM750
Contestants are only eligible to win 1 lucky draw prize only. Grand prize and lucky draw can be cumulated.
Ranking
Rank | Participant | HyperX OC Takeover Season III Qualifier | PTS |
1 | 56 pts | 56 pts | |
2 | 55 pts | 55 pts | |
3 | 54 pts | 54 pts | |
4 | 50 pts | 50 pts | |
5 | 40 pts | 40 pts | |
6 | 37 pts | 37 pts | |
7 | 35 pts | 35 pts | |
8 | 33 pts | 33 pts | |
9 | 29 pts | 29 pts | |
10 | 27 pts | 27 pts | |
11 | 20 pts | 20 pts | |
12 | 17 pts | 17 pts | |
13 | 16 pts | 16 pts | |
14 | 12 pts | 12 pts | |
15 | 11 pts | 11 pts | |
16 | 10 pts | 10 pts | |
17 | 9 pts | 9 pts | |
18 | 9 pts | 9 pts | |
19 | 8 pts | 8 pts | |
20 | 7 pts | 7 pts | |
21 | 6 pts | 6 pts | |
22 | 6 pts | 6 pts | |
23 | 3 pts | 3 pts | |
24 | 3 pts | 3 pts | |
25 | 3 pts | 3 pts | |
26 | 2 pts | 2 pts | |
27 | 2 pts | 2 pts | |
28 | 2 pts | 2 pts | |
29 | 1 pts | 1 pts |
Awarded Season Points
Rank | User | Season Points |
1 | 250 | |
2 | 195 | |
3 | 150 | |
4 | 117 | |
5 | 89 | |
6 | 67 | |
7 | 50 | |
8 | 39 | |
9 | 32 | |
10 | 25 |
Coverage starting soon. Good luck to all participants! http://oc-esports.io/#!/round/hot3final/
GoGo, XA
What happened to Splave?
He thought thats just to easy
He wanted to give all others a chance to win :DD
MY baby got sick and we had to go to the hospital the night before my 4am flight and so I stayed home to help care for him instead. Kingston was able to cancel my flight and hotel still so all is good! (besides the fact that I didnt get to go that is lol) My wife is happy so thats all that matters, she controls the flow of ln2 into my home.
Jack all good now ?
Grats to Alva for the win and to all for presenting big show at a very entertaining event - XA, your card was epic junk
Congrats @Lucky_n00b
Great show, gratz Lucky n00b
Congrats Lucky n00b!
Thanks for the kind words folks
Was a tough competition, but then again I believe things would've been different if Drweez got a slightly better IMC, XA got better GPU, Hazzan didn't lost his all his equipment in the luggage, or Splave showed up(hopefully Jack is better now, Allen).
So, this time I must've been lucky I guess
See you guys in another competition, keep pushing it
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