Master Overclocking Arena 2009

[filmbot]

Anybody going or know how exactly the online qualifiers are going to work? Heres rules from Syndrome-OC


[MOA] America OC rule:
1st Phase: 6/29-7/19
 Submit scores/screen shoot online
 Benchmark: Super PI 16M
 Platform: MSI P4 series or above with MSI NV graphic
 Top 10 for 2nd phase.

2nd Phase: 7/25-8/9
 Submit scores/screen shoot online
 Benchmark:3D Mark Vantage, CPU-Z
 Platform: MSI P4 series or above with MSI NV graphic
 Top 3 with great prizes or cash rewards
 Top 2 teams (total 4 persons) got the tickets to Beijing, China for grand final in September.

Below is the schedule of all MOA contests:
EU online selection: May 15 – June 15
EU qualifier event: July 10-12
South East Asia (SEA) online selection: June 22 -- July 31
America (North & South) online selection: June 29 – Aug.9
China:
Online selection: July (the exact date is under discussion now…)
Qualifier event: August (the exact date is under discussion now…)

Japan – they won’t join MOA 2009.
Korea, Australia, Taiwan – Will directly assign 2 representatives - OCers to MOA Grand Final.
China – will organize online selection & qualifier event by themselves.

[MOA] SEA OC rule:
PHASE I
1) The Online competition will start from June 22nd ~ July 12th -(Entries of the overclockers)
Will choose top 3 from each countries –
The top 1st will be allowed to participate in the II Phase
2) Wild Card – In this wild card MSI will choose 3 participant from the mention countries –
MSI will give one more chance to these 3 overclockers as MSI feels they are good and must be given a chance to compete.
3) Total Winners going to II Phase : 7 (top 1st ) + 3 (Wild Card) = 10 participants
4) OC Platform: Must be MSI Intel 4 series MB and above Ex: P43/P45/G43/G45/X58
VGA: MSI NVIDIA Graphic Card
CPU: ES CPU is prohibited
5) Phase I Benchmark: Super PI 16M

Winners will be listed on the Microsite

PHASE II
6) Competition of Overclocker from July 13 ~ July 31st (10 winners from Phase I)
Will choose top 3 for the grand Finale
7) The top 3 winners can invite 1 partner each for the grand finale. (each winner comes from different country)
8) Total competitors for the grand Finale will be 3 (top 3) + 3(partners) = 6 participants
9) OC Platform: Must be MSI Intel 4 series MB and above Ex: P43/P45/G43/G45/X58
VGA: MSI NVIDIA Graphic Card
CPU: ES CPU is prohibited
10) Phase II Benchmark: Super PI 32M and 3D Mark Vintage (professional Edition)

[N3RO]

I'm out :) Portugal is not included, we are not from EU :) (sarcastic smile)

[Sam]

3rd world Banana Republics with small hardware market not allowed (once again)

[NoL]

Maybe I'll be in on this one.
Though I wonder if they'd pay to drag the cascade if I qualify ;)

[MaSell]

Poland inclouded with "funny" rules - other than posted above. I even don't wanna try, the most stupid competition I've ever seen!

[Monstru]

So no competition for us this year, and no answer from MSI rep. Very good marketing strategy guys, this way you will sure get back on top. F**k MSI, this is NOT how you should be treating people.

[filmbot]

Maybe I'll be in on this one.
Though I wonder if they'd pay to drag the cascade if I qualify ;)

Thats what I was thinking. I want to try and get in on this one since I'll have hardware in this time frame. But I have no idea how the online qualifications are going to work. If anybody has any contact with MSI USA see whats going on. The rules do seem a bit bad but this seems to be the only comp I'd be able to partake in anytime soon.

[NoL]

Just saw, NV is apparently nVidia, I don't think I'm willing to cross that line yet. Not to mention I'd need to pickup two 295 minimum to compete.
So; who needs a partner with phase power ;)

[hey]

"thank u MSI" for not assigning us for MOA 2009 :)

[MrCape]

Do they expect you to buy MSI gear for this or do they send it out?

[filmbot]

I'd assume they want you to have it already or buy it :(

[Massman]

They expect you to buy

[MrCape]

We should stage a parallel competition with no brand limits and see what gets top scores.

[Sam]

do I get it right - rules say that you need to bring your own rig for BOTH parts of the qualifier ?
does it mean that MSI are trying to save on everything these days? (low contestant amount, no provided hardware ,etc)

[DeDaL]

MSI cpu !!! :ocx2008s37:

this 920 D0 ES i recieved from our MSI local office, and little impressed :ocx2008s37:


http://s57.radikal.ru/i156/0905/63/ca0fcbd786ec.jpg

[fhpchris]

Sad that they expect you to buy :(

[Massman]

Apparently, only a few countries are expected to buy. Our local benelux office assured us no MSI-branded hardware was needed in the first part of the qualifiers.

[fhpchris]

Apparently, only a few countries are expected to buy. Our local benelux office assured us no MSI-branded hardware was needed in the first part of the qualifiers.

from the rules it almost seems the other way...

You need a MSI graphic card to run pi 16m? lol?

[matose]

You need a MSI graphic card to run pi 16m? lol?

VGA BIOS flashing is always a solution :ocx2008s31:!

[filmbot]

So still no info on US qualifiers? 7 pages over at XS on it and still no concrete info. :rolleyes:

[Achill3uS]

So still no info on US qualifiers? 7 pages over at XS on it and still no concrete info. :rolleyes:

Trouffman posted this @ XS and told "American Selection are from June 29 to August 2", did you try to ask local MSI office?

http://www.kirikoo.net/images/7Trouffman-20090529-132923.png

btw, this is pretty old news at MSI homopage: http://eu.msi.com/index.php?func=newsdesc&news_no=783 but i didnt seen anybody posted here, there is the final list about the european countrys attendance on MOA 2009:

"MOA 2009 online qualification starts in Europe, and it covers 16 countries in total, including Germany, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Poland, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic and Hungary."

in our country will be no qualification, jugeen and myself will participant. hope to meet a lots of OCX bros in frankfurt, little more than one month left ;)

[ryba]

in our country will be no qualification, jugeen and myself will participant. hope to meet a lots of OCX bros in frankfurt, little more than one month left ;)

Frankfurt? WTF :ocx2008s05: I thought that will be in Berlin...

Ok, Frankfurt (Oder) is ok, but this second one is bad Idea :ocx0941:

[Achill3uS]

whats your problem with frankfurt bro? i know for you berlin is much closer :p
but afaik its a really nice city with quite big 'life' in town, lots of clubs and so on, ive never been there, so im quite curious...

[ryba]

whats your problem with frankfurt bro? i know for you berlin is much closer :p
but afaik its a really nice city with quite big 'life' in town, lots of clubs and so on, ive never been there, so im quite curious...

hehe, yes your opinion is good and I don't have any problem with that town.

But few ppl tell me that EU Finals will be in Berlin, this is reason that I'm supprised.:ocx0938:

[stummerwinter]

btw, this is pretty old news at MSI homopage: http://eu.msi.com/index.php?func=newsdesc&news_no=783 but i didnt seen anybody posted here, there is the final list about the european countrys attendance on MOA 2009...

Couldn't find where to upload...

Germans scores are here: MSI@HWL (http://hardwareluxx.de/community/showthread.php?t=612920)

Scores calculated based on 1M and 3D01-N...

[Achill3uS]

really nice battle guys, keep it up ;)

i want to share with you some information about the EU Final. ive got this mail from my MSI contact few days ago...

"I want to inform you that the location for the MOA EU final is now finalized; it will happen at the Olympic stadium in Munich. Since this location was already reserved on the weekend of 10-12 July the date of the event is now changed to 17th to 19th of July!"

could you beleive this place?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Stadium_(Munich) :D

[stummerwinter]

:confused:

Are they cracy?

Nothing mentioned on their homepage: http://www.oc-arena.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=2&lang=en

[@rne]

Nice:ocx2008s02:

[Massman]

Apparently, I won the Belgian online qualifiers :p

[stummerwinter]

Link to results?

[Massman]

http://www.madshrimps.be/vbulletin/f54/msi-masters-overclocking-arena-2009-qualifiers-63772/

Very little animo from the Belgian scene, hence why we have to do a Benelux qualifier again :(

[loc.o]

Agreed mate again Benelux sux, it should be Be and NL both :D

[Achill3uS]

:confused:

Are they cracy?

Nothing mentioned on their homepage: http://www.oc-arena.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=2&lang=en

dunno why, maybe its not official yet or someone else who make news are in late... ive got this info from an EU marketing manager - without names here, but i can tell you via PM bro

[Achill3uS]

Agreed mate again Benelux sux, it should be Be and NL both :D

damn this makes really hard the cheerleading lol :D

[hipro5]

Apparently, I won the Belgian online qualifiers :p

Ha, ha, ha........You where ONLY TWO to compete?...... :D

[Massman]

Three actually, but only two did all the necessary benchmarks to gather enough points.

[stummerwinter]

@Achillus: PN please...:)

dbode from Hardwareluxx, who are in partnership with MSI don't have the information about changing the date...

In Germany äi was the first, who uploaded scores...

Afterwards only two other submitted results, I'd better wait until the end of the contest...

[Pt1t]

Ha, ha, ha........You where ONLY TWO to compete?...... :D

:p that was a big online contest ^^

[stummerwinter]

HWL confirmed the 17th ~ 19th in Munich...

[stummerwinter]

Finally won the german online contest: http://hardwareluxx.de/community/showthread.php?t=612920

Hope to see many of you there!

[Sanko]

Greeting guys, here's some info about MOA for SEA qualifying.

http://forum.breakthelimit.net/msi-master-overclocking-arena-2009-t688.html
http://www.oc-arena.com/SEA

[Ekky]

Thanks sanko for information....

[Marioace]

i will be participating in the South American MOA :)

anyone have an Win XP + SP2 tweaked??

[MaSell]

Polish qualifications was simple as always :D

http://nvision.pl/img/art/relacje/moa_live/wyniki3.gif

[phobosq]

Masell, add translation to "nie dodali" as DNF or something like that :D

ryba & Chaos swept clean, nice :D

[Drager]

For first time Ukraine will take part in such event. Due the lack of time (MSI had 3 days to determining the winner) qualification included just SuperPi low-clock callenge there. Ukraine will represent MaJ0r (http://hwbot.org/community/user/MaJ0r) and SteelRat (http://hwbot.org/community/user/SteelRat)

[clon22]

Nice going Ryba and chaos! :D

[Sanko]

clon, checked. it seems i was correct. you need to use 'Nvidia Cards'

[clon22]

Arrrggghhh...
I used an ati card...
I thought any MSI card would do. :p
:ocx2008s06:

[OC4/3]

Arrrggghhh...
I used an ati card...
I thought any MSI card would do. :p
:ocx2008s06:

Flash bios to MSI and you have yourself a MSI card:p

[Sanko]

clon, even worst. Phase 1 rules and regulations changed. now it's 16M and Vantage. hehe..

[clon22]

clon, even worst. Phase 1 rules and regulations changed. now it's 16M and Vantage. hehe..
Hehe..
Vantage on winXP. :D

[Marioace]

ya, hahahahaha

for South American Challenge, there's no Phase 2 update, there's onlye Phase 1 (superpi 16M under Win XP Sp2)

btw, PhysX Enabled??

[elmor]

Who will you bring stummerwinter?

Who else will be in the EU final from OCX? I will be there along with Kinc.

[stummerwinter]

Who will you bring stummerwinter?

Not 100 % clear, but looks like No_Name...

Sounds like, we will have more then one beer there...:ocx0913:

[ryba]

Who will you bring stummerwinter?

Who else will be in the EU final from OCX? I will be there along with Kinc.

I will be there :ocx2008s37:

[stummerwinter]

I'm afraind: to much beer...:D

[ryba]

I'm afraind: to much beer...:D

hmm, I think for me it's not a problem :ocx0920:


PS. I love emoticons here :D

[Sam]

where and when is the EU finals?
can I go as a spectator or as a booth babe?

[elmor]

Not 100 % clear, but looks like No_Name...

Sounds like, we will have more then one beer there...:ocx0913:

Ok, will be nice to meet you and have a few beers :ocx44:

I will be there :ocx2008s37:

See you there then :p

where and when is the EU finals?
can I go as a spectator or as a booth babe?

It's in München.

[stummerwinter]

From 17th to 19th of July...

Don't know, if audience is allowed, because of drunken OCers...:ocx2008s39:

@Ryba: you're right...:ocx0928:

[Predator]

Spain is out, damn.....

[stummerwinter]

Sad to hear...:(

[ryba]

Buuu it can't be!! Without you event will not be the same :(

[N3RO]

Spain is out, damn.....
They gave you some explanation about not including Spain?

Did you try to assign directly just like some other countries did?

[Predator]

They gave you some explanation about not including Spain?

Did you try to assign directly just like some other countries did?

not a single one as far as i know :confused:

overclocking.es is the Spanish website which usually takes care of all manufacters's qualifying for European events, but this time no one took contact to them

to be honest, i saw this thread quite long time ago but didn't checked it and i had no idea this was the MSI one :ocx2008s05:


anyway, those who attend, have fun :) , i won't be there to force you get drunk though :D


i'll focus on my own 3D WR attempt for this weekend :ocx0910:

[elmor]

That sucks Sergio, wierd that Spain isn't included when it usually is in every other competition. :ocx0938:

[Predator]

That sucks Sergio, wierd that Spain isn't included when it usually is in every other competition. :ocx0938:

This is all our president (ZP) culprit :D

[N3RO]

At least, will be nice if they (MSI Iberian Office) give some explanation to not include Spain/Portugal in this event.

I've send them an e-mail when the competition was announced, Silvia Boladeras forwarded my e-mail to Joaquín Suanzes, who never replied to any of my e-mails.

Not the best way of working.

[Marioace]

Sergio do you want to participate as our international "chilean" team member? XD jajajajajaja

[Massman]

At least, will be nice if they (MSI Iberian Office) give some explanation to not include Spain/Portugal in this event.

I've send them an e-mail when the competition was announced, Silvia Boladeras forwarded my e-mail to Joaquín Suanzes, who never replied to any of my e-mails.

Not the best way of working.

I was told all local offices were allowed to organise a qualifier or just send someone. The reason why some countries are not included would be time and/or money related.

[Marioace]

i don't understand so well this

• Only the top TWO (2) teams will be selected to progress to the MOA 2009 grand finale in Beijing, China.
• The Top TWO (2) teams are allowed to invite ONE (1) partner each to the MOA 2009 grand finale. Partner must be a contestant from PHASE 1 or PHASE 2.
• The total number of competitors entering the MOA 2009 grand finale is TWO (2) teams plus TWO (2) team mates, a total of FOUR (4).
• The remaining EIGHT (8) teams are considered to be eliminated and will not be eligible for futher progress to the grand finale.

so, the "Teams" are just 1 (One) person?

[clon22]

I'm totally lost with SEA rules as well.
5 days changed 5 times.
Hehe...

Oh well, have submitted mine.
If they disqualify it, can't do anything 'bt it either 'coz rules keep changing.
Have re-benched twice to alter to the rules
and ln2 is too expensive here.(~$102usd for 30L)

[Marioace]

ya, the organization has been very weird
in some countries in europe, they allowed to bench with non msi hardware

[Ekky]

I'm totally lost with SEA rules as well.
5 days changed 5 times.
Hehe...

Oh well, have submitted mine.
If they disqualify it, can't do anything 'bt it either 'coz rules keep changing.
Have re-benched twice to alter to the rules
and ln2 is too expensive here.(~$102usd for 30L)

owww...very expensive LN2 there..clon22...
in jakarta its only 0.5$/L

Btw... MOA SEA result has announced... conggratz to all passed to second phase..
Conggratz especially to you and my best friend hazzan...
here's the result.. http://www.oc-arena.com/SEA/register.html

[clon22]

owww...very expensive LN2 there..clon22...
in jakarta its only 0.5$/L

Btw... MOA SEA result has announced... conggratz to all passed to second phase..
Conggratz especially to you and my best friend hazzan...
here's the result.. http://www.oc-arena.com/SEA/register.html
Thanks Ekky! :D
Your Ln2 is so much cheaper.
It makes me want to cry. :p

Congrats to U and Alva.
And of coz' Hazzan and my buddy Jeremiah(NR).
Hope we have a chance to meet again and grab an Ice Cold Beer! :D

[demiurg]

Congrats to ryba and Chaos! :ocx49:

[Achill3uS]

we had a really great time in Munich, thank you MSI :)
it was so nice to meet up again with you guys :D
congrats to everybody, all of you did a great job, fish was just more lucky than us haha... jk well deserved win ryba and chaos, youve put an amazing effort to get the 1st place, congrats :ocx44:

Boris pls upload your photos :p

[linky]

Congrats to all the competitors:D

[linky]

Teams results(top5):
Poland:
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/4145/3dm0380711.png

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/5205/am3368.png

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7509/spi32m704891.png

Hellas:
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/8201/screen4p.jpg

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/2808/screen5z.jpg

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/2092/screen6y.jpg

Sweden:
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/4352/701x.jpg

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/4797/767l.jpg

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/8657/aq3real2.jpg

Finland:
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/658/0377k.jpg

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/7595/am3364k.jpg

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/9355/superpi32m7min8859s.jpg

Denmark:
http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/1122/screen040.jpg

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/5484/screen043.jpg

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/4784/screen025z.jpg

Μany thanks to gprhellas:D

Οr yo can download them from here (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2S3223E4)

[clon22]

Wow!
Congrats to all winners!! :D
Especially Ryba and Chaos!