OK, just got off the phone with further clarification.
The information i was supplied yesterday was wrong.
I have edited my post above for clarity, and will repeat myself here:

Gigabyte rules for the freestyle competition have been clarified:
Hardware category #1 scores for each benchmark on hwbot does count

For each record you will earn 1 point, so if you get the E8500 1M, Pifast, 32M #1's then you will get 3 points.
Freestyle hardware info must be supplied to Gigabyte for review, and low end hardwares will be denied.

My apologies for passing on information that turned out to be incorrect.