Aggressive suggestions for competitions

[Leeghoofd]

I hear you on that, no doubt, and agree with you, but when its highly prized international competitions, isnt it determaned to be "elite"?

Define ELITE plz : he who has got the best toys can qualify ? The potent OC'er that doesn't have the 6.5Ghz GT but has to enter the qualifying round with eg an i950 ? There are some many aspects to this... We discussed one person on MSN Marc that did his job wel in 2D and 3D in a live event. But he lended a fast CPU from a fellow country men... is that bad ? Was it better if some rich kid got the chance to bin 10 CPU's and maybe even let it OC for him by some geek and go to the Euro finals ?

Same goes for you press samples, with the XPower only the happy few got a board via a related press guy, some early pre retail board etc... not everyone was able to get a board like that out of a shop...

I know what you are trying to do Marc. But there are so many aspects and points of views it will be darn hard to lay down all of them toughts in a bunch of rules. Plus these rules have to remain acceptable and understandable for the OC community...