General Competition Rules

Participants may choose 3 out of 5 stages to participate in the qualifier. (only the 3 best scores count if someone participates in all stages). Multi-Threaded Benchmarks will be split by amount of threads/cores (XTU and HWBot Prime). Point distribution for each stage: 25-18-16-15-14-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. General verification rules of HWBOT apply.

• Cooling Type: Only air- and watercooling
• No clock limit
• Only one account per user is allowed
• Employees of sponsors can't participate
• No hardware sharing is allowed (cf HWBOT 3.2.E)
• It is not allowed to remove submissions once it has been submitted (cf HWBOT).
• After the end of the competition no more submissions or rectifications will be allowed. Plan your submission ahead!
• All submissions screenshot must include the official wallpaper of the round.
• All submissions must include a picture of their rig (MB, memory, CPU cooler during use).
• No limitation in the number of submissions per benchmark.
• Participants must submit to at least 3 stages to participate to the lucky draw.
• We expect fair play from everyone for those competitions.
• Examples of behaviors that aren’t acceptable:
  • Changing League before / during the competition for strategic purposes
  • Influence others submissions to profit your ranking
  • Deliberately forget / make a mistake in the submissions process and ask later for change
• Must use commercially / retail available components. Engineering samples are not allowed.
• We reserve the right to ban specific products

Contest Wallpaper

Download the competition background here