MSI MOA
The gathering.
The teams start to gather outside the hall
Giorgio the main judge discusses the rules.
The draw.
Each team had to draw a number . Don’t look at the legs, Tom, just pick a number. Phew!
The teams
I got pictures of nearly all the teams
Romania. Lab 501. Matose and Monstru.1st place winners. Congratulations guys. A great win.
I spoke to these guys a few times, Monstru is friendly and outgoing and doesn’t like eating fish.
Greece. HWBOX.gr. Aristidis and Stelaris. 2nd place. Well deserved guys. Good luck at the finals. Spoke to these guys a few times. Friendly and cheerful pair.
Russia. Team Russia. Smoke and Slamms. 3rd place. Well done guys. I spoke to smoke a few times. Friendly and outgoing, he likes fast cars.
Seeds. Sweden. Team Expendables. Me4Me and Elmor. 4th place. Last years winners. Well done.
Germany. BenchBros. Loopy83 and kabauterman. 5th place. Well done guys. Good luck in the finals.
Made friends with these guys. Friendliest team there.
Sweden. XXX Corps. Mean Machine and Mink. 6th place. The guy in the foreground of the second picture is our bit-tech reporter, Paul. You can read his article here.
http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/events/2011/04/19/msi-master-overclocking-arena-2011/1
You’ll also find a picture of me in his article, as I didn’t get round to taking one of myself.
Italy. ITALY TEAM. canna1988 and KanGaxx. Or at least one of them. 7th place.
Belgium. A++ Belgian supershrimps. Pt1t and Massman. 8th place. Didn’t get to talk to these guys much, but they were friendly enough.
France. 59hardware. Boblemagnifique and p€p|n0r@ng. 9th place. Spoke to these guys a few times. Friendly and outgoing, p€p|n0r@ng is a bubbly character.
Iran. HotOverclock-Matrix. Olesius and Don_Corleone. 10th place. Spoke to these guys a couple of times in the lobby. Both are friendly and speak fair English. They know their hardware as well.
Czech Republic and Slovakia. OBRguru. 11th place. The two to the left of the picture are WLK and OBR. Another friendly team that didn’t mind chatting.
Poland. TeamPCLab.pl. G.Foyle and Kamil_Grzbieck. 12th place.
Spain. MSI TRAXTORE OC TEAM. VAK92 and DRACO. 13th place.
Turkey. HWA OC TEAM. brandybuck and karandiru. 14th place. We had to eat our lunch while we worked.
UK. Team OC3D UK. Rawz and PCTwin. 15th place. I know. I should have got someone to take a pic for me.
Team Ukraine is missing from my photo album, so no picture. My apologies.
They were XtremeLabs.org. cyclone and T0lsty. 16th place. They blew their CPU at the end of the first day so couldn’t participate on the second day.
Team MSI. Congratulations to this team for such a well organised and enjoyable event.
Our referee.
Our photographer.
Our dinner companions on the boat. From the left we have the motherboard designer, the bios engineer and the motherboard tester. And they also dispensed the LN2 for us during the competition.
Talking of boats. Tom and Paul on deck. It was windy and cold on there.
And now for a look at the girls.
The MSI girls.
Showing off some hardware.
Oops. Spotted me.
Nice hardware, yes.
A final pose for the boys.
At this point my knees were melting.
And that was our MSI MOA in pictures.
