Event Coverage

HardwareZone Iron Tech 2008 - The Grand Finale!

By Vincent Chang - 15 Oct 2008

The Rigging Challenge

The Rigging Challenge

Following the selection of the components, the contestants will then proceed to the rigging challenge, which will test them on their speed and precision in assembling the PC components and getting the system to boot up successfully. The marshals will record the time taken and the contestants will be ranked accordingly. The top contestant will get 100 points and the second one will get 90 points and so on in intervals of 10, descending all the way to 10 points for the last contestant.

 It was a flurry of activity once the emcee announced the start of the rigging phase. Boxes and product packaging were flying left and right while marshals manfully tried to keep the mess contained and out of the contestants' way.

 Malaysian Coolice (Ng Teng Liang) looking as unflustered as his name suggested.

 Thailand's Thirdsak Phokha struggling to get his graphics card out of the packaging.

 Alex Tan aka Sup3rfly from Malaysia was neat and meticulous in setting up his rig. He was also pretty fast, finishing second in slightly under 6 minutes, which goes to show that you can be both orderly and quick.

 Gil Navarro from the Philippines seen here trying to mount the Cooler Master Hyper TX2 heatsink on his CPU.

 Showing you how to install your RAM properly, Thailand's Rangsee Traiwongyoi.

 Singapore's Chen Tianyi focusing on removing his memory modules from the packaging.

 Indonesia's Alva Jonathan connecting some cables.

 Ronaldo Bejarin from the Philippines raising his arms to cheer his third place finish for the rigging phase.

 Jeremiah Ong from Singapore was the fastest contestant in the rigging phase, taking 5 minutes and 33 seconds to assemble and get the system to POST successfully.

 Rekky from Indonesia fiddling with his motherboard.

 The names of the top 4 contestants in the rigging phase were displayed on the TV screens located around the competition venue.

Taking just 5 minutes and 33 seconds, Singapore's Jeremiah Ong came in first in the rigging phase, followed closely by Malaysia's Alex Tan aka sup3rfly in 5 minutes 51 seconds. Ronaldo Bejarin from the Philippines rounded out the top three finishing in 6:16. Unlike the semi-finals where only the top three were given bonus points, all the contestants were awarded points from this phase, so everyone was working as fast as possible.


 

Rank of Contestants (Rigging Phase)
Contestant Rigging Time (mins) Points Awarded
Jeremiah Ong 5:33 100
Alex Tan 5:51 90
Ronaldo Bejarin 6:16 80
Gil Navarro 6:25 70
Alva Jonathan 7:29 60
Ng Teng Liang 7:34 50
Chen Tianyi 7:52 40
Rekky 8:50 30
Thirdsak Phokha 10:04 20
Rangsee Triwongyoi 10:12 10
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