The World Championship 2016 Final has now drawn to a close. Canada’s Marc0053 has just been crowned the official HWBOT World Champion of 2016. In second place we have Poland’s Xtreme Addict, while in third place we find DrWeez of South Africa. Let’s take a look in a bit more detail at the winners, scores, the blood, sweat and tears that helped make the event one of the most exciting days of the year.

HWBOT World Championship 2016 Finals: December 5th, Caseking Showrooms, Berlin

In terms of overclocking 2016 will almost certainly go down as one of the biggest years ever, not least of all because of the HWBOT World Tour 2016, the most expansive series of HWBOT-run overclocking events ever done. The climax of the World Tour is of course the World Championship Final, a contest where all of this year’s World Series winners battle it out become the HWBOT World Champion 2016.

The first part of the contest is actually more similar to time trials in Formula 1 racing than a true qualification round. Eight overclockers were asked to compete on three benchmarks withe the final standings used as the basis for deciding who face who in the following 1v1 elimination rounds. Obviously, there was perceived advantage for finishing higher up the table and therefore facing an opponent from further down the table.

Read the full roundup article here on OC-ESPORTS.