HWBOT is announcing the beta stage of its soon to be competitive overclocking league: OC eSports
OC eSports aims to grow the competitive overclocking scene by creating a dedicated platform for competitive overclockers to participate in. HWBot will still serve as the primary database for statistical ranking but all competitive ranking will be hosted via OC eSports.
The Difference Between HWBOT.org and OC-ESPORTS.io
Before we continue, let me emphasize that nothing will change on the HWBOT.org website. The only change you will notice is that, from January 1 2015, all competitions will link to the OC-ESPORTS.ioplatform. Both sites run on the same database using the same back-end, which means that submitting a result on the OC-Esports site will also appear in the HWBOT benchmark rankings.
In essence you can look at it this way: we separate the competitive from the statistical overclocking. Everything related to the pure overclocking will continue to be hosted on the HWBOT.org platform. This includes benchmark rankings, the leagues and so on. Everything related to competitive overclocking moves to the new OC-ESPORTS.io platform. This includes mainly the content you can find under theCompetitions section.
The platform launches today in beta form and will officially start its first overclocking season on January 1st, 2015. During the beta phase you can enjoy a test round of the Road To Pro Challenger Divisions and let us know all the bugs and issues we can fix before the start in January!
OC eSports will introduce some exciting, new way to experience overclocking and come 2015 when the platform comes into full bloom, the platform will be host to numerous challenges and divisions which for competitive overclockers to compete in against people with similar hardware budgets and skill levels.
You can read up more about OC eSports in the official HWBOT blog.