The OCWC Qualifier in Sao Paulo will be spread over two days. Day 1 will act as a preliminary qualification round with the four fastest Overclockers moving on to Day 2 which will involve two Semi-Finals, a Bronze Final and a Grand Final.

Day 4 of the HWBOT World Tour Sao Paulo event 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 randomly drawn from a pool of the following 6 options: SuperPi 8M, SuperPi 8M 5.5G, SuperPi 16M, Cinebench R15, GPUPI for CPU 500M, HWBOT x265 Benchmark 1080p, 3DMark11 Physics, 3DMark11 Physics 5.5G

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