Forum Wars 2008 Rules

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The Spirit of the Games... This is very Important!

Tweaks are allowed, FSB, Multi, Htt, Memory,Voltage, VGA Bus & Mem... ect

Cheats are not, Ram drives, no on-the-fly affinity modifications, modifing Drivers ect

Note... not all has been mentioned here, just keep in mind "The Spirit of the Games"

Penelties for violating this will be harsh.

 

 

Winter Warz and Summer Wars have been created....

Summer Wars will have seperate "Ultra Extreme Class"

for all the super cooled Rigs and Newer ES chips..

 

 

This will be Winter Warz 2008....

 

Winter Warz Dates......

2 weeks for prelim (stock) testing. (Feb 29th thru March14th)

1 week to choose rosters and team names. (March 15th thru March 21st)

3 weeks to OC for the Warz. (March 22nd thru April 19th)

All deadlines are on 11:59 CST US & Mexico

 

 

The Bench's......

Geekbench, 3d01, 3d03, 3d06, SuperPi 1mb (v1.5)

Scoring will be adjusted so that the max for each test is 70,000 or so...

(you dont have to redo all your tests to post an updated Score)

 

 

Scoring.....

Bench scores will be weighted so a high-end rig with conventional cooling will earn a FWs overclocked score of roughly 70,000 on each bench. Highly tweaked or UE rigs may exceed 70,000 points."

3D01... True Score

3D03... True Score

3D06... 4 Times actual Score

Geekbench... 10 times actual Score

Super Pi.... Weighted to a max 80,000 = 8 seconds

All Added up for a Warz Score

The "A Teams" play against all "A Teams"

The "B TEams" play against all "B Teams"

and so forth...

 

 

The Rules......

One system per player, unless the forum is short on the 20 player target.

Then and second system by each player can be added to fill out the rosters (only 1 system can be on the A Team)

The 2nd Rig must have a different CPU and Reduced VGA.

Reduced VGA means if you use SLI, you cannot use the same set up on your 2nd Rig, you can only use 1 card.

But if you have a lesser set of VGA cards... thats OK!

Standard HDD performance tuning (like RAID) on ATA, SATA, SATA II are ok. No limit on # of HDD's.

Ram or Virtual Drives are not allowed.

Acceptable Operating Systems: Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 or Vista and all variants of each (32-bit/64-bit, home/pro/ultimate, etc.)

Acceptable Drivers: ALL (No driver limitation)

Acceptable Hardware: All (except unreleased ES chips and similar)

NO UPGRADES after March 12th, None... Period! (But RMA's are ok, subject to validation for the same hardware).

Forum Police can deny any posted score if not properly submitted

The Forum Wars Judges will vote on All Questionable scores

The "Forum Wars Admin" Forum is where the forum police will post a poll and discuss scores and rule clarifications.

This forum will be password protected.

All Forum Police will be registered in our Database and all scores will be entered into the database

then transferred to our spreadsheet. Then tabulated and posted on the TRP website (usually twice a week).

***No Unreleased hardware may be used in Team Scoring...

All released Hardware IE: motherboard, CPU,Memory & Video Card must be available in the retail sector before March 10th.

Compliance may consist of showing that an e-retailer lists the part as available or through provision of an invoice showing

purchase on or before March 12th. (allowing 2 days for mail) Posting Deadline March 14th

E Samples that are released before February 29th are allowed.

 

 

Ultra Cooling..... (only 4 UC Rigs total per forum)

Ultra cooled Rigs will be allowed on the A & B Teams only

No more than 2 UC sli/cf (A Team Only)

No more than 2 UC quad (A Team Only)

No more than 4 UC overall

Ultra cooled is defined as: Vapo, Dry Ice, Liquid Nitrogen and Cascades

 

Participating Forums......

Each Forum must provide their own Forum Police (2 to 5 is preferred)

All cops will have access to "Forum Wars Admin" and the Database for Score entries

If a Forum has no forum cops they will be required to post at The Raptor Pit on the Scoring thread.

Participating Forums need to create 3 threads

A discussions thread that I can link to from the main site for checking each other out and taunting

A closed "Forum Wars 2007 Entry" thread (not hidden) (where all scores will be posted)

An "Forum player entry thread" to Recruit Players and Cops

And of coarse... a passworded private forum for your players only.

Forums that wish NOT to Field an A Team will be required to have AT LEAST a B team

 

Teams and Catagories......

A thru E Teams...4 players per team (5 teams count toward the Overall) 20 players

no limit on Quad placement (but higher team placement is reccomended)

F,G and other Teams do not count towards the "Overall"

Meaning... if you have more than 20 players, the rest can still play.

Ultra cooled Rigs will be allowed on the A & B Teams only

The slacker class wil be used for all the late entries and do not count toward the overall

The Slacker class is unlimited... Anything Goes!!!

The preferred Roster is to have your best players on the "A Team", second best on the "B Team" and so forth.

Ultimately you can build your rosters as you wish.

 

 

Overall Scoring......

Forum final rankings from the A thru E teams are added up and the lowest total wins the overall

Tiebreakers are fewest # of penryns, quads & SLI/CF rigs, Forum players then coinflip

 

 

Bonus Points.......

When a forum (at the end of the wars) has their highest scores on their A Team, they will recieve 1 ranking point

When their B team has the second best score, they get another ranking point

When their C team has the 3rd best score, they get 1 last ranking point. (3 bonus points Max)

This will only effect forums with a full or mostly full complement of players (20)

The bonus ranking points are totaled then deducted from the forums overall score.

As you already know... the lowest ranking wins the overall and 2 or 3 deductions can mean alot.

So most of the larger forums will comply by putting their best players on the A, hopefully their second best on B and maybe

play around with the rest of their players for best position with in the remaining teams. or stick it out and make their C

team their third best either by design or by accident....

Teams that wish NOT to Field an "A Team" will be required to have a "B Team" and are NOT eligable for the Ranking

bonuses.....

Forums can place a team in any class, but have a much less chance of winning the overall

The Judges:

Coolcase (ASUS Independent)

Rtyrie1 (PC Pitstop)

Meltdown (Xtreme CPU)

Deanzo (OC Forums)

Luis GT (The Raptor Pit)

Jammin (OverClockers Club)

Raymo (The Raptor Pit) Tie breaker vote

FWs08 judges can participate as a player like anyone else in their forum, but if there is an issue involving them personally or a member of their forum, they are not allowed to vote as a judge.

 

 

 

These rules will not be modified in any form.

Any concern about the wording on specific issues will be voted on by the Forum Warz Judges.

The polling outcome will be final and not be disputed.

Any additions or clarifications approved by the administration will be added separately to the rules as ammendments, with no alteration to the original wording of these rules.