what competition should we do next?

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10-20-2004, 04:39 AM
saaya

what competition should we run next?

i didnt include the nicks of the people who came up with the idears as i think we should all focus on the idears themselves and not judge by who made them :)

oh, and no! the Xtreme Oracle competition idear is not from gf4ti4200 :D

please read the descriptions of the different competitions and then think about what competition of the 10 winning idears you would like to see, wich one you think would be most fun to do and wich one you would most likely take part in and have fun :)

the winning competition will be held soon and the top 10 entries in that final competition will each win an
OCZ DDR BOOSTER, a plug an play toy that lets you boost vdimm on most boards up to 3.9v!
A big Thx again to OCZtechnology and especially Tony aka Bigtoe for making this competition possible and letting us have so much fun :toast:

EDIT:Winners of the previous OCZ Booster giveaway, staff of OCZ and XtremeSystems, are ineligible to win this contest.

HERE ARE THE 10 WINNING IDEARS:

1. Xtreme Food Competition
Use any food items to replicate the XS logo or anything else extreme.
Food items can consist of anything that you can eat, condiments, raw or cooked food, liquids...
You must post a picture of your artwork to be entered into the contest and list of the food you used.
The best logo wins.

2.Xtreme Oracle Competition
We will set up a nicely oc'ed system and tell you the exact specs of it
(components, FSB, timings, graphics card clocks etc.)
You will have to predict the EXACT scores it'll get in some pre-determined popular benchmarks.
The person who gets closest to what the rig finally scored (all predictions combined) wins!

3.Xtreme Case/System-design Competition
This contest could be split into 3 catagories
Air system ,Water system and Phase Change system
Submit scanned drawings or screenshots from photochop.
The best design wins.

4.Xtreme Passive Cooling Competition
The fastest system that is fully passively cooled wins.
You would have some xtreme modding done, with heatpipes and heatsinks everywhere, no fans.
Pictures, specs and screenshots and orb entries would be required to show stability and temperatures.
The best performing passive cooled rig wins.

5.Xtreme Smashing Competition
Destroy a piece of computer equipment. (monitor,case, cpu, graphics card, phase change unit...etc)
Pictures and/or videos will be requiered, videos will probably have a higher chance to win as they impress people more.
The one who most violates the equipment wins.

6.Xtreme Assembling Competition
Who can put a pc together the fastest?
You will have to get someone to video it, not edited (!), and start from scratch and see how fast it is put together.
Once its put together you have to show it booting up.
The fastest assembler of a working system wins.

7.Xtreme Mouse Modding Competition
Mod your mouse!
The contestants will mod their mouse into a funny character and submit a picture/video of it.
The best mod wins

8.Xtreme Quiz
The Overclocking General Knowledge Quiz.
The mods would come up with some questions regarding hardware benchmarking and overclocking.
We (the mods) will then use thos questions in a quiz (multiple choice).
The first one to answer all questions correctly,
or the one with the most questions answered correctly in the limited time of the contest wins.

9.Xtreme Pet Comeptition
You would have to dress your (or your friends/neighbours) pet up in the most geeky outfit (tshirt, glasses etc) and place it in front of the computer looking at the monitor.
The funniest pic/video submitted wins.

10.Xtreme Lottery
The mods would pick 10 integer numbers via random.org between 1 and whatever the highest ORB 3dmark01 score is on that day.
The 10 integers generated will be target 3dmark01 scores and are kept secret for the duration of the contest.
Entrants would then submit screenshots of three 3dmark01 scores.
The goal would be to hit one of the 10 secret scores.
If a particular secret score were not hit directly, the closest score to it would be considered the winnner.
If there were a tie, the person to first submit the particular score would win.
10-20-2004, 05:53 AM
Ichwillspeed

yeah,the xtreme smashing contest would be fun! have my xabre200 lying around :banana:
10-20-2004, 06:10 AM
saaya

EDIT: if there are any questions about the rules of any of the competitions,
or you have suggestions on how we could best run a certain competition, please let me know :)

i always told you that card will come in handy in many situations :D what a great all around card :D
10-20-2004, 06:37 AM
Crankster

I already have a super-plan for making extremefood, passive cooling with soup in a cool case!!!!1!
10-20-2004, 06:45 AM
Sons_of_Piru

i vote for the pet competition, my dog will be happy!
10-20-2004, 06:59 AM
=[PULSAR]=

When the competition is decided on, when do you think it will take place?
10-20-2004, 07:21 AM
reject

im still deciding, but i know G4Ti will vote no. 2!!!!!
10-20-2004, 07:50 AM
berk

!) Are you allowed to use explosives in the Xtreme 'smashing' comp ?
2)If so,can someone send me some? :D
10-20-2004, 08:39 AM
saaya

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crankster

I already have a super-plan for making extremefood, passive cooling with soup in a cool case!!!!1!

the next competitions will probably be the idears for a competition who reach rank 2nd and 3rd in this poll :)

but thats not decided yet, but looking at all the options we have enough idears to run a bunch of great and really really funny competitions! :D
now all we need is sponsors :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sons_of_Piru

i vote for the pet competition, my dog will be happy!

post a warm-up shot of your dog in the xtreme pets thread in wampateers! :D

Quote:

Originally Posted by =[PULSAR]=

When the competition is decided on, when do you think it will take place?

oh, i forgot to mention!

THE POLL CLOSES IN 7 DAYS!

Quote:

Originally Posted by reject

im still deciding, but i know G4Ti will vote no. 2!!!!!

make a new poll thread :D
"do you think gf4ti4200 will vote for no2 in the competition poll?" :D
you can set up beds! hahaha :D

j/k gf4ti4200 :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by thebeast

!) Are you allowed to use explosives in the Xtreme 'smashing' comp ?
2)If so,can someone send me some? :D

1)yes, but only if it doesnt inflict with your local legal laws, we cant and dont want to motivate anybody to break the law!
2):P
10-20-2004, 08:58 AM
Mauri Antero

Voted butn don't need Booster, got one and don't even use it ;)
10-20-2004, 09:53 AM
Gogeta

LOL, go Xtreme Smashing!
10-20-2004, 10:25 AM
spaceman

I like the lottery one. :) Gives us, umm, visually/creatively challenged folks a better chance. :D ;) Or the Quiz would be pretty cool, too.
10-20-2004, 01:27 PM
-=TriX=-

Lotto
10-20-2004, 09:20 PM
rick_fx

Lotto me too
10-20-2004, 10:07 PM
NoX

Smashing
10-21-2004, 02:20 AM
mrlobber

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mauri Antero

Voted butn don't need Booster, got one and don't even use it ;)

Can you send (sell) me it? :D

Voted Xtreme Lottery.

Edit: nice to see that this time, the majority supports this one as well :cool:
10-21-2004, 07:09 AM
tictac

xtreme lotery :D
10-21-2004, 11:30 AM
L0$t Pr0PhEt

I think xtreme lottery is one of the better ones because everybody can participate, not that much skill required but on the other hand we maybe need a contest where skill is required.
10-21-2004, 01:28 PM
Rooster

i know its late to give an idea (maybe just keep it in mind for use in the future), but how about a competition for the cleanest PC. Clean meaning no stray wires, no cheap zip tie jobs, and other things along the line of that. One would have to submit the photos to be judged and prove that the PC runs efficiently. Any type of cooling is aceptable, it'l be judged on how neat the inside of the PC is set up and looks and the creativity of how the job is done (either how the wires and cable are routed or eliminated without sacrificing performance or other Xtreme mods to clean up the inside). i want to se some Xtreme routing of cables and the key is to make it look as there are no wires in your PC, maybe just a bundle or two of nicely covered wires. get the point?
10-21-2004, 02:16 PM
Rukee

have a contest to see who can get the biggest spam between bench scores.
See what the highest you can get, then underclock, load programs, edit films whatever while running it again to see who can get the widest span between high and low scores.
10-21-2004, 02:57 PM
saaya

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THE POLL CLOSES IN 6 DAYS

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10-21-2004, 04:31 PM
Flash777

I have lots of stuff I can smash.

but no camera but i'll smash it anyway :)
really it would be cool to watch
10-22-2004, 07:11 AM
tictac

that xtreme passive cooling... do you mean no fan at all at northbridge proc & vga? lol

interesting
10-22-2004, 07:40 AM
saaya

Quote:

Originally Posted by tictac

that xtreme passive cooling... do you mean no fan at all at northbridge proc & vga? lol

interesting

yeah, no fan at all. besides the psu fan of course :D

THE POLL CLOSES IN 5 DAYS

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10-22-2004, 04:22 PM
STEvil

passive cooling guys, vote!!!! ;)

Love snow.. hehehe
10-23-2004, 02:38 AM
berkut

i vote for extreme smashing

can we do literally everything with our hardware ?
10-23-2004, 11:22 AM
kryptobs2000

I think with extreme smashing, everybody is a loser who participates lol
10-23-2004, 05:51 PM
saaya

hahaha lol! :D

nah, its fun! :D

THE POLL CLOSES IN 4 DAYS

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10-23-2004, 10:40 PM
HawainPanda

wats with the food?...more details?
10-24-2004, 05:59 AM
kryptobs2000

yeah, that one didn't get my creative thinking going much (food) I liked the passive cooling idea, but I doubtI'd beable to keep up since I don't have enough equipment. I can see people making their own huge heatsinks and stuff.
10-24-2004, 05:04 PM
STEvil

pfft.. slk-900u rev3 will be plenty ;)
10-24-2004, 07:53 PM
saaya

Quote:

Originally Posted by HawainPanda

wats with the food?...more details?

what do you mean? that contest is about making the xtremesystems, any of the xtremesystems logos out of food :D

a huge x in a circle, write xtremesystems, or an x and an s or the new logo with xtreme systems both with an aura around it...

THE POLL CLOSES IN 3 DAYS

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10-24-2004, 09:59 PM
STEvil

mmm.... xtreme pizza... *drool*
10-25-2004, 07:25 AM
saaya

Quote:

Originally Posted by STEvil

mmm.... xtreme pizza... *drool*

LOL reat idear! :D mmhhhh Xtreme pepperonis :slobber:

THE POLL CLOSES IN 2 DAYS!

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10-25-2004, 10:23 AM
kryptobs2000

love all the little comments on the 'x days left' saaya lol. Gotta put something haha.
10-26-2004, 06:08 AM
saaya

hehehe, well i want to make sure everybody votes and tells their friends to vote before the poll closes :)

THE POLL CLOSES IN 1 DAY!

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10-26-2004, 06:59 AM
infinitesadd

Mouse modders: Unite! (do those exist :P)
10-26-2004, 08:08 AM
duKe

Quote:

Mouse modders: Unite! (do those exist :P)

yeahh, here is one, where are the other four? :p:
10-26-2004, 09:33 AM
kryptobs2000

what kinda mods can you do to ur mice other than maybe add leds or something?
10-26-2004, 09:40 AM
duKe

dont know, but i have a few mices laying around :D
10-26-2004, 10:54 AM
ToastedToad

I voted for food, cause I'm a chef:)
10-26-2004, 09:00 PM
saaya

Quote:

Originally Posted by ToastedToad

I voted for food, cause I'm a chef:)

lol cool!

im sure you could get some really nice logos done :D

POLL CLOSES TODAY (WEDNESDAY 12PM)

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10-27-2004, 11:26 AM
saaya

wow! 27 to 29! :) thats close!

the winner is the Xtreme Lottery competition!

10.Xtreme Lottery
The mods would pick 10 integer numbers via random.org between 1 and whatever the highest ORB 3dmark01 score is on that day.
The 10 integers generated will be target 3dmark01 scores and are kept secret for the duration of the contest.
Entrants would then submit screenshots of three 3dmark01 scores.
The goal would be to hit one of the 10 secret scores.
If a particular secret score were not hit directly, the closest score to it would be considered the winnner.
If there were a tie, the person to first submit the particular score would win.
10-27-2004, 10:42 PM
mrlobber

Quote:

Originally Posted by saaya

wow! 27 to 29! :) thats close!

the winner is the Xtreme Lottery competition!

10.Xtreme Lottery
The mods would pick 10 integer numbers via random.org between 1 and whatever the highest ORB 3dmark01 score is on that day.
The 10 integers generated will be target 3dmark01 scores and are kept secret for the duration of the contest.
Entrants would then submit screenshots of three 3dmark01 scores.
The goal would be to hit one of the 10 secret scores.
If a particular secret score were not hit directly, the closest score to it would be considered the winnner.
If there were a tie, the person to first submit the particular score would win.

When is it going to actually take place? Will there be a separate announcement?
10-28-2004, 09:54 AM
saaya

im going to open a thread about it very soon (hours) :D
10-28-2004, 10:54 AM
saaya

the thread is up and the lottery has started! :D

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=44562