The edges open overclocking the final was held in Moscow, Russia. 13 teams were selected after the qualification process on the HWBOT.org in the first half of the year. All the contestants used the same hardware, the edges Maximus 6 Extreme, Intel Core i7 4770K CPU from Intel, Graphic card from ASUS GTX 780 Direct CU2 OC. The memory, the storage and the power supply were provided by Korser and some of the memory were some special ones with MFR. And the storage was the Korsen Neutron 128GB. The power supply was the AX 1200i. The ranking system was based on 3 stages with limited time frame, 2D benchmark first and then 2 stages with 3D benchmark. For the 2D stages, the overclockers can reach the maximum frequency in CPUZ or they can use SuperBi 32M with the limitation to 5.5GHz. For each benchmark, the ranking give you points, on either ranking with the most points con for each team in the end. This kind of point system for a live competition is a nice addition because you lower the dependency on the hardware and you give more chance to overclockers with nice skills for tweaking and performances, even if they were not lucky for the hardware draw when they and they got like a limited CPU. At the end of stage 1, all the team except Team Recreate 2 adds Kors to mids. Some of the teams were for the first time displaying their skills in the live competitions. Like Team Recreate 2 that burned the CPU in about 3 minutes after the beginning of the first stage. But no matter what, some teams managed to show off their skills like Team Friend, they ended up with a pretty good place. Stage 2 was about 3D benchmark with 3D Mark 03 and 3D Mark 11 Performance. Both benchmark gave global ranking points but only the highest point is gathered per team, same as stage 1. 3D Mark 5 Strike Extreme was the only benchmark of stage 3 making it an important focus for the day. Stage 2 and Stage 3 ran at the same period of time so a rocklaker were able to run with the ZXP and Windows 7. They can choose which one they want for which benchmark. So most of the team started the 3D benchmark by running to the Mark 03 because they can use it on the XP and the XP was used for the 2D stage just before. This saved time avoiding switching between the 2 operating system back and forth during stage 2 and 3. So most of the overclickers went to Ben 3 Mark 03 on the XP and then switched to Windows 7 to Ben 4. At the end of the day, 5 teams were really close. Team Greece 2, Crane 1, Europe, France and Germany, that were all very close in the term of global point. The last course update came up at the very very end of the stage making it a very tight and intense competition. Team France and Team Europe ended up being at the exactly same amount of points with 80 points in total. So the judges, Tapaka and SF3D along with Slams, the organizer, they selected the 3D Mark 5 Strike Extreme as being the decisive benchmark. This was an obvious reason because it was the single benchmark for this stage. At the end of the day, Perika, Barry and XRM addict won 1000 USD cash price and some hardware, Wizard, and Stratégorsan flew back to France with 2000 USD cash and, although the outward they used for the competitions, and finally, Torsty and Sikon from Ukraine went back home with 3000 USD in cash price and the outward they had for the competitions. The overclocking TV crew would like to congrats all the overclockers for this nice and intense battle. We would also like to highlight the big congrats for Slams, Vlad, the organizer for his impressive work on organizing this kind of competition for the second year in a row. So we hope to see you guys for the next season and don't forget, keep pushing it. Thanks for watching!