Any of the prviate teams will have to put up a very hard fight in order to be competitive - purchasing multiple CPUs will become very costly. HWbot is a great place for an even playing ground. If the manufacturer teams have a big budget - they should have a nice advantage. For the private teams will there be any prizes? Or is this competition simply for the glory? I would like to assess how far the individual benchmarks are set in stone - to get a basic idea what kind of a bugdet it would require to be competitve in this.
Also I would really get a grasp on the rules. When I went to my first live competition at GOOC I was a bit shocked how loose the rules were - not that this is an issue, but it would help to know what to expect in advance. At the contest it turned out for example that things like "disable post processing" in 3Dmark06 were total fine to be done. No biggie - if we know - all tweaks are go - all tweaks will be go. Just takes time to prepare for that.
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