Gigabyte GOOC2010 World Final

Tradeshow & OC events by leeghoofd @ 2010-10-01

After the several regional qualifiers it was time to put the best 15 overclockers head to head for the ultimate showdown. After USA Fugger from XS had won in 2009, who will be crowned as to be the best Gigabyte World Champion in 2010 ? Due to the qualification of our beloved Massman, apparently known as Tom Cruise in Taiwan, I was allowed to accompany him as Press for this OC event in Taipei. After packing my bags I was off on a 10K journey to the mother of all hardware places, Taipei in Taiwan.

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The journey and Hotel

Almost half around the world in less then one day :

Gigabyte's NL blond goddess Bernice arranged my Flight ticket. First up, a short trip of 35 minutes from Zaventem to Schiphol, located in the almost soon to flooded Netherlands. The Jumbo 747 400 of KLM was reserved for the ultra long flight from Schiphol to Bangkok. After a quick crew change ( didn't know autopilots had to eat ) of plus minus an hour, the aircraft was ready for the final segment of the 3 hour 30 mins lasting flight to Taipei.

Sounding easy at start as I had about an hour and half between each flight. Yet I almost missed my ride to Taipei. A severe thunderstorm overhead Zaventem delayed the boarding. The same dark clouds were at Schiphol delaying the disembarking. With only 10 minutes to go I just managed to squeeze myself into the 747 seats.

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Bernice arranged my own little private jet. Though she forgot to mention that her other 500 friends would join me to the OC fest


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At Bangkok Transfer control we almost had to strip tol our underpants, Security is number one priority and joking with the security didn't improve things at all


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Time to get the clothes back on and look for Gate "Efoooo". I had to ask it trice, to grasp that the Thai Stewardess meant E4 gate. Though it could also be partly to my bad hearing


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Eat your heart out Zaventem, this is what the Thai call a gate. No Micky Mouse stuff here ! The next day around 07:30 pm I landed at Taipei Airport


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Gigabyte treated the present Overclockers and media guys as royals, This time a fancy 5 star Miramar Garden Sadly due to my late arrival I apparently missed a very nice dinner.

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Room 702 was shared with Lord Massman. At first glance looking like a normal executive office, though it turned out more like a HWbot office. Really guys, Massman is even working during his holidays !

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PJ seemed to be intending to use the New SF3D Infliction pot (made by rybalicious from Poland) for this contest.

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When I went into the bathroom I was in for the first shock of the weekend. Marc Bro aka Bridge Beier was here.

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The gory spots on the Vaseline pot tell more than a thousand words would ever do


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Comment from Teemto @ 2010/10/02
Nice report, shame Massman didn't finish in the top 3.
Is he loosing his touch
Comment from jmke @ 2010/10/02
I'd say he's maybe touching too much
Comment from nigel @ 2010/10/08
nice

and wel this explains what Massman was doing while i was looking at the live stream xD

 

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