10th anniversary Country Cup ideas

[unityofsaints]

Isn't this a bit early for an idea thread for Country Cup? Yes it is, if this was normal year, which it isn't because: 1) there's a plan to run CC a little earlier this year 2) It's the 10th anniversary of this great competition! Why not celebrate it in a special way?

Idea #1 

Make the competition 10 stages, one picked from each of the last 10 years (with hardware restrictions adjusted where appropriate). This could take the form of a poll or just a discussion thread, I'm not sure which way to go because a poll is democratic but with 10 questions could end up with a low number of votes. What do you think?

Here are the stages over the last 10 years (for reference):

 

• 2009:
  • SP1M (Core 2 Quad, Yorkfield only)
  • Pifast (Bloomfield-only)
  • SP32M (AMD-only)
  • Vantage (AMD-only CPU + GPU)
  • wPrime32m (Singlecore, HT off)
• 2010:
  • Heaven Xtreme (single GPU)
  • MaxMem (LGA1366, 2:6 memory multiplier)
  • 3DM03 (iGPU)
  • SP32M (LGA775, 6x CPU multiplier)
  • 3DM2001SE (LGA775 excluded)
  • BCLK (AMD CPUs only)
• 2011:
  • UCBench2011 (dualcore)
  • Heaven Basic (Geforce 200 series)
  • 3DM11 Performance (full out, only AMD CPUs)
  • 3DM2001SE (iGPU)
  • wPrime1024m (1 / 2 / 4 / 6 / 8-core)
  • PCMark 7
  • Memory MHz
• 2012:
  • 3DM11 Performance (FM2 iGPU only)
  • 3DM03 (Nvidia 7/8/9-series 2x SLI)
  • BCLK (LGA1155 + LGA2011)
  • SP1M (AMD-only)
  • Vantage (low-end Nvidia)
  • SP32M (LGA775)
• 2013:
  • 3DM11 Performance (full out)
  • Cloud Gate (i7 + GTX470 / 570 / 670)
  • Vantage (AMD CPU + 2x AMD GPU)
  • HWBot Prime (i3 or Pentium)
  • Aquamark (FX CPU)
  • Catzilla 576p (AMD APU)
  • 3DM03 (PCI / AGP / PCI-E / Integrated / Hybrid)
  • SP32M (4 GHz low clock challenge)
• 2014:
  • Fire Strike Ultra (GTX980 / 780ti / R9 290X)
  • XTU (2 / 4 / 8-core)
  • Ice Storm (GTX760 / 750ti / 660 / R9 270x / HD7970)
  • SP32M (5 GHz low clock challenge)
  • Sky Diver (AMD-only CPU/GPU)
• 2015:
  • 3DM06 (Nvidia HWPts)
  • Fire Strike (iGPU)
  • GB3 Singlecore
  • XTU (1 / 2 / 4 / 6 / 8-core)
  • GPUpi 32B (full out)
• 2016:
  • x265 1080p (LGA1150 + 1151)
  • SP32M (LGA1155 only)
  • 3DM03 (Nvidia G9* singlecard)
  • Fire Strike Extreme (AMD GPU only)
  • GPUpi for CPU 1B (AMD-only)
  • Vantage (full out GTX9**, AMD CPU only)
• 2017:
  • SP32M (Intel-only)
  • CB15 (AMD-only, 1 / 2 / 4 / 6 / 8-core)
  • x265 1080p (LGA1151)
  • GPUpi 32B (GCN 1st gen)
  • 3DM11 Performance (AMD-only CPU+GPU)
  • TIme Spy (Nvidia 1030 / 1050 / 1050ti)
• 2018:
  • x265 4K (one sub per CPU socket)
  • CB15 (one sub per CPU socket)
  • BCLK (one sub per motherboard socket)
  • SP32M (AMD-only, one sub per CPU socket)
  • GPUpi for CPU (singlecore, one sub per CPU socket)
  • 3DM05 (dual-core GPU)
  • 3DM2001SE (AMD-only CPU+GPU)
  • GPUpi 32B (singlecore AMD GPU)
  • Night Raid (iGPU)
  • Time Spy (Nvidia, one sub per GPU family)

Idea #2

This is kind of a "stretch goal" version of idea #1. Same deal, still 10 stages from the last 10 years but this time the winning team from each year can pick the stages. I know it could be a lot of work but I think it's kind of a cool way of deciding that is less likely to turn into a never-ending discussion. To make sure that one country doesn't dominate this process I further propose allowing each country only one pick and giving the second place / third place team the pick as appropriate.

i.e. the bolded teams in this list get to pick the stage from that particular year:

 

2009

1. Romania
2. Russian Federation
3. Poland

2010:

1. Russian Federation
2. Romania
3. Bulgaria

2011

1. Poland
2. Greece
3. Indonesia

2012

1. Greece
2. Poland
3. Bulgaria

2013

1. Australia
2. Indonesia
3. Germany

2014

1. Australia
2. Indonesia
3. France

2015

1. Australia
2. Germany
3. France

2016

1. Greece
2. Australia
3. Germany
4. Canada

2017

1. Australia
2. USA
3. France

2018

1. Australia
2. Romania
3. Ukraine

 

Looking forward to hearing your responses! Thanks to @Bilko for helping to come up with this concept

Edited May 23, 2019 by unityofsaints

[zeropluszero]

Idea #3
not making it in fucking December. 

[Bilko]

Either way sounds pretty cool, I think that Idea #2 is a little easier to get sorted (potentially) and I'm also in favour of Idea #3

[unityofsaints]

28 minutes ago, zeropluszero said:

Idea #3
not making it in fucking December. 

10 minutes ago, Bilko said:

Either way sounds pretty cool, I think that Idea #2 is a little easier to get sorted (potentially) and I'm also in favour of Idea #3

I think it is already decided to do this comp earlier in the year, @Leeghoofd to confirm.

Edited May 23, 2019 by unityofsaints

[Guest D@R3]

My Vote is Idea #3

[Noxinite]

You guys skipping straight to CC and ignoring TC? ?

[ozzie]

14 minutes ago, Noxinite said:

You guys skipping straight to CC and ignoring TC? ?

they never do TC , CC is all that matters to them, a big piss up in adelaide for the CC is all it is 

Edited May 23, 2019 by ozzie

[unityofsaints]

56 minutes ago, Noxinite said:

You guys skipping straight to CC and ignoring TC? ?

Both TC and CC are still happening but I personally enjoy CC more and wanted to emphasise the anniversary so I made a thread. Feel free to open a TC one

Edited May 23, 2019 by unityofsaints

[Leeghoofd]

K due to delay we will go for December  Gives me more time to set up

[ObscureParadox]

1 hour ago, Leeghoofd said:

K due to delay we will go for December  Gives me more time to set up

Appreciate this Alby, anything to not spend more time with the family and racist grandparents over christmas is a bonus for me.

[keeph8n]

I know I’m new around these parts, but I kind of like option 1 over 2. 

 

You up could do individual polls that last a week or so for each round. That would give us our comps for each round.  The 10 rounds deal sounds good to me. 

 

I think option 2 would would probably be viable sooner, but I’m not sure how much say those who are newer to this vs those who’ve been around a while would get a say in what benchs are chosen. 

 

Whatever the masses choose I’m all game for. I’ll bench what I can and enjoy this community as much as I can. 

[zeropluszero]

16 hours ago, ozzie said:

they never do TC , CC is all that matters to them, a big piss up in adelaide for the CC is all it is 

You're invited. 

[zeropluszero]

13 hours ago, ObscureParadox said:

Appreciate this Alby, anything to not spend more time with the family and racist grandparents over christmas is a bonus for me.

I dont want to spend time with my family either, but i'm obligated to.

I've been trying to get my wife to plan a holiday starting December 20th every year I think. Fucking hate christamas.

[yosarianilives]

As long as at least one of tc or cc takes place during the bench meet in August I don't really care when the other is. 

[ozzie]

7 hours ago, zeropluszero said:

You're invited. 

thx for the invite zero, but honestly mate , SA beer??? ,, mate,  its like used washin up dish water , i love the place, city of churches, and beautiful churches, beautiful city, been there many times, west end beer .spew....?

[zeropluszero]

As long as you dont let Dino or Carl buy the beer, we'll be fine. 

[ozzie]

On 5/24/2019 at 4:32 PM, zeropluszero said:

As long as you dont let Dino or Carl buy the beer, we'll be fine. 

lol , well you can be in charge of that, ill just drink it ?

[unityofsaints]

I thought it might be a good idea to bump this thread now that Team Cup is over. Anyone got input on the ideas outlined in the OP? Most of the replies so far have been, ehh, a little off topic ?

[yosarianilives]

5 hours ago, yosarianilives said:

I enjoyed the dogpile stage, I don't know how much others would like to see it but I think a dogpile stage for country cup would be fun. Since CC tends to be memory type agnostic perhaps a gpu based dogpile with a dx9 bench like 3dm05?

Other than that I think a 32m stage, a gpupi stage, an igp stage, and a mixed core count stage (ie; amd 1-2-3-4-5-6-8 core wprime) would be nice to see.

 

[Dead Things]

Love the idea of reprising one stage from each previous year. 

Don't love the dogpile for CC. For TC it's fine - but I'd rather be able to spend a little more time on each score and have time to go cold on each than just dumping ambient score after ambient score into the comp just to cover enough ground.

[unityofsaints]

Discussion is continuing here:

 

 

[ozzie]

i think the dogpile is just as its name suggests, not needed in both comps !!!