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    The official HWBOT Wild Card Contest thread

    in HWBOT Competitions

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    ya I benched on impact the night before and let it sit 14hrs but I guess it wasnt enough, it was still a little wet and shut down and next start was 00. Really killed me for days. I just couldnt believe it.

     

    Ya I have never done power board mod with amd card, not sure if rx460 is easy like nvidia, because the last few generations werent.

     

    Really sucks about your i3 man :(

    Why there is a fee in the Wild Card contest

    in HWBOT Competitions

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    This, 100% agree.

     

    Counting the hardware cost needed to join that qualifier (it's pretty OK, but you still need good amount of money if you want to bin them),

    that added 50 EUR might've been too much for some if they knew there's little chance they're getting anything out of that qualifier (especially if they're against high-ranked 'monsters' that might be competing like Dancop and Rauf :P :p )

     

    The Lucky Draw streacom benchtable is nice, but it might be a bit nicer if the prize for tournament with an entry fee like this spread out a bit (example: 4th to 5th place might be getting their entry fee back?). Or like above suggestion, maybe give a additional merchandise, T-Shirt, or something else.

     

    As a crazy idea though, IF there's an option like

    A) 50 EUR 'normal' entry Fee

    B) 200 EUR entry fee , but we get i3-6320 binned to 1.2V Cinebench R15 4.5Ghz + shipping

     

    I'd take option B any day :D

     

    Oh well, I wanted a chance of doing WT qualifier since I missed previous two chances (WT Computex and WT Indonesia),

    so even though I knew I would most likely be bottom tier in this competition, I still paid the ticket because I appreciate the chance ;)

     

    I am absolutely dreading to compete against Dancop, Rauf, Luumi and Nickolp1975...let alone the rest of the top guys who will be entering. Those with already rock solid i3 6320's will have a good footing, but those who can afford to bin a few RX 460s will certainly be even stronger!

     

    The things I would do for the benchtable though, I would probably get arrested :D

    Why there is a fee in the Wild Card contest

    in HWBOT Competitions

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    I'll be honest, my initial reaction when I heard about this was pretty bad. But it's easy to forget that hwbot isn't made of money, I think it's pretty clear the only way this wildcard contest in the form it's in can even exist is with an entry fee. The alternative would be requiring the winner to cover flights+accommodation in order to claim their prize which would probably make it pretty unattractive to anyone not european.

     

    I reckon the main reason people have reacted badly is that whereas for the other events you're buying an LN2 supply and live OCTV tickets, if you don't place in this competition you've got precisely nothing for your €50. In the future it might be sensible to try and make sure every entrant gets something for their entry fee - an extreme example might be to source hardware that's in some way special (eg oc vbios from a gpu manufacturer, ln2 prebinned from caseking, EVC from elmor) and have a much higher entry fee but one which buys you some of the hardware as well. Or just make everyone exclusive t-shirts :P

     

    Pretty much this!

     

    If you're not entirely confident that you're even going to come close to the competition entering, the entry fee is a little off-putting. Obviously I can understand why there is one and it's 100% fair enough, but if 50 people enter, only 3 are walking away with something.

     

    Even things like merch such as t-shirts, or even a custom HWBot 2016 World Tour t-shirt would do me ;)

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