Quote Originally Posted by Drwho? View Post
I am out of this thread, too many people interested into getting their own agenda established ... Too many free airplane tickets got distributed recently!
I am interested into the young kid who have fun with his hardware, not into the dude trying to make money out of it.

Francois
I don't think anyone here is looking to make money on this initial venture. In fact this event will likely cost each bencher several hundred to thousand dollars in LN2 and supporting gear that can't be acquired via sponsorship. So don't pull that cop-out, the young kid doesn't have the budget to buy your ridiculously overpriced chips.

Remember guys, Francois is not Intel. Even if we all can't get pre-binned chips, Intel Marketing may still be interested in supplying chips to this event. A tray of 975 ES chips would go a long way toward making this event come true, even if you have to cut the number of initial teams in order to guarantee everyone gets a single chip.

That being said, let us worry less about the hardware and more about the actual rules governing this event. Questions still need to be answered like what happens if a bencher needs to quit the season prematurely. How are points allocated for winning a particular month? Who decides at the end of the season if a team needs to be cut or if another team needs to be added?

Don't worry about the chips, even if you are all benching Core i7 920s at 21x220, the fact that something organized like that will create a little buzz. Sure, it might take a few seasons, but like all ventures, if you keep plugging away at it eventually you'll get it right.