The OCWC Qualifier in Poitiers takes place on Sunday from 1PM to 3PM. The four fastest Overclockers moving on to the final on Monday which will involve two Semi-Finals, a Bronze Final and a Grand Final.

On Monday April 17 HWBOT World Tour Poitiers will see the top-4 compete for a unique contest format that pits contestants against each other in a 1v1 format lasting 30 minutes. Benchmarks are drawn from a pool of the following 6 options: SuperPi 8M, SuperPi 16M, Cinebench R15, Geekbench3 Multi Core 6G, GPUPI for CPU 500M, HWBOT x265 Benchmark 1080p, 3DMark11 Physics, 3DMark11 Physics 6G

Each overclocker has 1 veto which can be used to avoid an unfavorable benchmark being select