Official Country Cup 2017 thread

[niobium615]

Another quick question about Stage 5. Are Vega Frontier Editions allowed?

[Splave]

On GPUPI AMD stage we can use intel cpu correct? i assume so

[websmile]

Does this also mean 3 different AMD cpus? Or would it be okay to do all 3 subs with a 1950x for example so long as gpus are different?

 

No limit on cpu model apart from AMD most likely, stay tuned for the update. Three different highend gpus are already hard enough to find and expensive stuff

 

Another quick question about Stage 5. Are Vega Frontier Editions allowed?

 

No, let´s stay with non workstation

 

On GPUPI AMD stage we can use intel cpu correct? i assume so

 

You assume right, the cpu used is not limited for the gpupi stage.

Edited November 3, 2017 by websmile

[Radi]

can we use es cpu for 3d stage ?

[websmile]

No - ES is not allowed at any stage

[Radi]

ok thanks

[Jumper118]

Can we use a 4770k and 4790k for stage 1.

[Don_Dan]

No, they're both in the Core i7 (Haswell) subfamily.

[Jumper118]

So basically you have to have an i9 to win. I see what you did there designer of le competitions. Intel weren't selling enough i9 cos they are poo and Threadripper is miles better so you ask hwbot to design all competitions to make sure as many people in a team or country as possible have to buy latest overpriced crap they put out and can't use their older hw they already have.

 

Smooth.

 

The question is how much did they pay you? Also can I have some Intel shillings monies too plz? If they give me £2000 I'll buy a i9 for the country cup

[yosarianilives]

So basically you have to have an i9 to win. I see what you did there designer of le competitions. Intel weren't selling enough i9 cos they are poo and Threadripper is miles better so you ask hwbot to design all competitions to make sure as many people in a team or country as possible have to buy latest overpriced crap they put out and can't use their older hw they already have.

 

Smooth.

 

The question is how much did they pay you? Also can I have some Intel shillings monies too plz? If they give me £2000 I'll buy a i9 for the country cup

 

I think you'll find that the i9 isn't that good, mesh sucks. Tons of good replacements. For example the extremely cheap pentium ae, skylake pentiums on a bclk oc z170 board, ivy i5s, skylake i3, etc. This list of things is large and all are relatively cheap.

[Don_Dan]

So basically you have to have an i9 to win. I see what you did there designer of le competitions. Intel weren't selling enough i9 cos they are poo and Threadripper is miles better so you ask hwbot to design all competitions to make sure as many people in a team or country as possible have to buy latest overpriced crap they put out and can't use their older hw they already have.

 

Smooth.

 

The question is how much did they pay you? Also can I have some Intel shillings monies too plz? If they give me £2000 I'll buy a i9 for the country cup

 

What makes you think you need an i9 for this stage? Please do you research like everyone else. There are quite a few CPUs which are better choices.

 

Also Intel isn't paying HWBOT anything to design the stages of the competitions (or Massman forgot to send me my share).

[websmile]

http://hwbot.org/article/general_rules

I post a link to the general rules here again - if you use newer sysinfo and latest benchmark version and have a link without time measurement error you can bench all futuremark benchmarks also with amd and haswell etc. The windows restrictions table tells it all, so this should answer the several questions about time spy and so on I get regularly

 

P.S. Why should someone use an i9 for stage 1 when there are at least 10 subfamilies which have clearly faster cpus for 32m? Be happy don_dan saw this faster, I would have given you a much more "friednly" reply...

Edited December 12, 2017 by websmile

[Jumper118]

Sorry I was wearing 2 tin foil hats at once cos it was cold today. Forgot to take them off before I started benching

[websmile]

OK, stage 1 is final, I am too soft at moderating

[Mr.Scott]

OK, stage 1 is final, I am too soft at moderating

 

Sometimes.

[websmile]

I checked the stage 2 top 10 teams, sadly I saw a few teams on win8 and 10 which is not allowed because of rtc bug. Also server equvalents like 2012 are not allowed. Nontheless good results, grats to stage winners australia again

[websmile]

Stage 3 is over and moderated

[yosarianilives]

Thanks! That was a close one, 2nd by just a bit! Now as long as Team AU get's top 3 in the rest of the stages they have won, so GG. The battle for second is on! Hopefully next year we can come with a little more ln2 and dethrone the aussies

[websmile]

Stage 4 checked, very good job, I did not find invalid results, thank you. Grats to the new godfather of 3D splave for the most impressive result :-O

Edited December 21, 2017 by websmile

[Splave]

Stage 4 checked, very good job, I did not find invalid results, thank you. Grats to the new godfather of 3D splave for the most impressive result :-O

 

 

boys from down under are killing it

[yosarianilives]

@websmile how will the prizes be divided as there's no "team captains" to decide. Will the decision go to mvp? Prominent members? Or will it be based on unanimous decision or lottery?

Edited December 21, 2017 by yosarianilives

[websmile]

The ozzies will win, their team session concept plus good benchers and decent hardware will grab the cup

 

On prize-distribution, we will not interfere with this. Our recommendations are lottery in the team (based on number of qualifying subs for example), common agreement or that participants find a solution themselves based on whatever they see as important. We might do a draw for the winners if no one is able to find a solution at a winning country, but this is only last exit if you do not find a way.

On shipping, normal prrocedure is that one or two members of the winning cc teams send adress and stuff is shipped there to be spread. Normally this is handled by Massman or Stewart, so I can only give you a raw overview of options

[yosarianilives]

The ozzies will win, their team session concept plus good benchers and decent hardware will grab the cup

 

On prize-distribution, we will not interfere with this. Our recommendations are lottery in the team (based on number of qualifying subs for example), common agreement or that participants find a solution themselves based on whatever they see as important. We might do a draw for the winners if no one is able to find a solution at a winning country, but this is only last exit if you do not find a way.

On shipping, normal prrocedure is that one or two members of the winning cc teams send adress and stuff is shipped there to be spread. Normally this is handled by Massman or Stewart, so I can only give you a raw overview of options

 

Okay, thanks for the clarification on the distribution.

 

Now as for the aussies. They won yesterday, at that point the math said they just had to stay top 3 in each of the last 3 stages. As for winning today, now they just have to show up for the next 2 stages to win, although we know they'll try for a proper shutout

[zeropluszero]

Prize wise AU usually puts forth everyone who made a submission, regardless of its standing to vote on what they want from the prize pool in order of preference, then someone does a Livestream with names in hat and pick names out, then chose from lists in order of preference according to what is still available.

Has worked for us in the past so far. Though please I don't need any more CPU pots haha

Edited December 21, 2017 by zeropluszero

[yosarianilives]

Prize wise AU usually puts forth everyone who made a submission, regardless of its standing to vote on what they want from the prize pool in order of preference, then someone does a Livestream with names in hat and pick names out, then chose from lists in order of preference according to what is still available.

Has worked for us in the past so far. Though please I don't need any more CPU pots haha

 

You can ship it to US I only got gpu pot for this comp. But more seriously I don't think team USA has potentially been in this scenario before...