If I'm reading this right...
You pay for your ticket, massman will give you a spot at the table, monitor, psu.
then you basically have two options
1. bench whatever you want to do, byo os, hw & pots, or just bench the given stuff.
2. bench competitively in the world series comps, there's cash prizes for placing each day, as well as going through to finals which are on friday/saturday - this will be on all the given out hw, possibly bw-e.
massman will be providing for this: cpu, ram, board, psu, monitor, possible keyboard/mouse. for the competition i believe pre-made os drives are being setup