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so Luke and I recently hosted mod 20 for a 24 hour like live PC modding yeah building extravaganza yeah spectacular event event yeah that's what it was and we actually had a number of you reach out asking us to do some kind of a recap of the event now we don't have all the footage from it so uploading the 24-hour archive isn't really an option but what we do have is some footage of the finished systems so we were thinking we'd do a quick overview of the third second and first place systems and kind of talk about the event as a whole yeah or as an event because it wasn't a whole yeah like not a literal whole corsair gaming RGB keyboards feature precision cherry on X RGB key switches for sixteen point eight million color perky backlighting for virtually unlimited customization click now to learn more mod 24 for me was at least at the start co-hosting with Linus and then by the time we were most of the way through it turned into like just clearing the way for Linus's zombie walk to be able to be successful so I had to just make sure that I could manage where cameras were gonna be so that by the time he got somewhere he could just continuously talk and it would be fine so that he could go and pass out for short little like 20 minute windows regain a tiny amount of energy and then keep going well I think it would have been easier if because I thought the original concept was we were gonna kind of be sitting in chairs yeah and then we'd be looking at footage just coming from elsewhere commentating on it that's what I thought it was too but instead we ended up running all over the place you know coordinating a lot of it I mean the team there was great oh yeah they were awesome but we were kind of going okay I think they're doing this out in the in the atrium so you camera guy come with me let's go Luke you do this rock here and then we'll talk about the security thing in fear when we're gonna flip and something will happen and it'll work and when we were really organized Luke and I would go to two different places and then we would we would tagged him off and we'd throw the camera to each other and that only happened a couple times yeah no way too much I think the coolest thing about it was being there with all these people who's builds I've seen on the Internet and it's actually seeing them work in person even if you know the quality of what they could do in 24 hours it's obviously not going to be the same as what they could do in months which is what a lot of them are doing outside of this event yeah so I guess we'll start with team kill ninja this is rich Sora's and Travis jank rich probably better known by his alias Darth Beavis lots of famous builds for him I had really high expectations for these guys but I really wasn't sure about their choice of an open-air flow test bench style case I think that came because they have very very recently done a build in that exact same test bench with a very similar style IQ to external reservoirs the same radiator placement all that kind of stuff so if they were coming into a 24 hour build being able to build on a platform that they knew probably helped quite a bit but then they did throw in a bit of a monkey wrench in terms of things that they know and my understanding is that that laser cutting machine that they were using to make their decals they had only had for about a week about a week yep yeah they had not had it for very long at all they were while we were there they were learning how to work with different types of acrylics in terms of different colors and different densities and everything and like how something would react if it was reflective you'll notice a lot of the decals on the side of the case are actually the kind of a reflective metal look yeah instead of like a clear blue and I think it worked really well for some of them I think you and I both agree that the tighten the main tighten the centerpiece of the system worked really well yeah and the pilot worked pretty well but I think some of them either didn't come out as clearly I think the ships are a good example of this yeah and then some of them it was more of a placement issue the guns under the reservoirs are kind of hard to see and the middle of both of them is basically entirely chopped off from most angles because of that reservoir so it just kind of looks odd and I mean I think that if they'd had more time if they had had to spend so much time working on the decals themselves they could have come up with a more polished build I mean the thing that really hurt them was they had planned a bunch of lighting effects for the main Titan the centerpiece that was supposed to tie in the you know favorite gaming experiences theme and then they never actually managed to eliminate him so they had tried but I don't think they had kind of enough time and this was also kind of a newer thing for them just like the laser cutter they hadn't done it a ton in the past and speaking of time they also had the problem with their coolant coloring yeah this was right near the end right as everything was winding down and Darth Beavis tried to mix colors together to make a cool-looking Orange which probably actually would have played together with the build a lot better but didn't have enough time to squirt anything in other than pink right so it made his previously white which looked kind of fine coolant turned to this crazy vibrant pink which well some people liked it was pretty polarizing and didn't work super great with the judges well I think that whoever gets this system when they've had more time to polish it and finish it up before sending it out is gonna end up with something that's a pretty different looking experience than what they live to do in 24 hours definitely I think that's gonna be a fairly common theme for all the builds but this one especially mainly due to the color of the coolant and possibly the elimination of the Titan team Mongoose made up of Lee Harrington and Ron Lee Christiansen had a kind of uh I'd say they had the simplest overall game plan yeah they were the only ones that took a real case and then they picked a theme that would fall kind of sort of into any of the three that Nvidia might throw at them at the time of the competition and they had that white board that had their entire plan every half an hour little half an hour slots and everything so they knew exactly what they had to be done by different parts of the contest and everyone smiled we check up with them they say yeah we've we've now cut all of our was that styrene yeah we've cut all of our styrene so we know we know we're ahead of schedule now or whatever they they always seems like they're ahead of schedule speaking of cutting styrene I really didn't have much hope for this build the beginning it looked like Lee didn't seem to really have much to do until the liquid cooling started and it seemed like Ron was spending a lot of time cutting out little white pieces of styrene and it was hard shaving them in different ways and was hard for me to visualize what that was gonna turn into but once he started painting them end up looking absolutely fantastic he's obviously very skilled with an airbrush and this this case just looks really sharp especially for how much time they had to get it done and there were thumbs some things I didn't expect like the fact that that vibrant top panel ties in so well to the rack yeah the fact that it actually works with the rest of the build is is kind of interesting especially because he even described the side panels as being muted yeah they were they were it was a muted style and then the top was very in-your-face which is interesting and other than a couple stencils for words here and there one of which got waned yeah during the build process but it ended up kind of working yes he basically free-handed the whole thing which is actually very impressive something interesting talking about free-handing they had to move the reservoir because invidia kind of changed the game on them with how many graphics cards they're gonna have that to move the reservoir into where I believe the harddrive cages would originally go yeah and that ended up screwing a whole bunch of stuff up like they had to custom cut the power supply cover that comes in that empty case and I think that is what ultimately cost them the competition because theirs was the one that should have been done like they could have installed Windows on it by the end of the competition but making those last-minute alterations ended up causing them to not even be able to post their system at the very end of the competition which to my understanding was actually the tiebreaker I think that's actually where their extensive planning ended up hurting them because they planned so much that they didn't plan for anything not going according to plan so when something miss mixed up their plan they didn't have any time allotment left for it and it kind of threw them over honestly I think losing points for not posting might not have been entirely fair because looking at the other systems particularly the winner and how functional those actually are in spite of whether they date or didn't post they all had post code errors so you can say whatever you want about that which leads us to the project that turned out to be the eventual winner the team BS mods ancient IBM server machine that Bob Stuart and rod Rosenberg chose to tackle I think they had by far the most ambitious project in terms of leaving no time to spare taking something that they could have worked frantically at for 48 hours and trying to do it in 24 well we would see we would see the other teams go for smoke breaks or like stop lunch breathe just generally like necessity kind of things and these guys would completely ignore it anytime that we were wondering where they were at for interviews just okay go to the courtyard they'll be there working on their case they'll be sanding something yeah yeah for the first 20 hours they will be sanding something yeah they had to completely build whole day to completely fabricate and tire new parts of their case including a whole new back they had to add in they didn't fabricate this but they had to add an entirely new motherboard tray yeah it to cover up a whole bunch of venting on the inside of the case with I thought they weren't gonna make it me neither I flat out thought they were not going to have a finished system they at the end of the project wouldn't have though right that brings in the 30 minute extension we were chosen to cap off the stream because mod 24 was freaking awesome so they decided to let us kind of finish it off and that gave all the teams in extra 30 minutes which was fine because they didn't actually have 24 hours anyways so we allow them to have a little bit more and get close to the 24 hour cap but with all that 30 minutes I do not think they would have finished and you know what I think that even if the judges had had a little bit more time to look at the systems or if the judges had been a bit more technical it might have gone to team Mongoose because frankly it wasn't really done the stencil behind the door was not that great I mean I even heard them calling it a quote-unquote 30-footer when they were working on the paint job because they saw how little time they had left yeah after the fabrication and metalworking that was involved in getting the case to even house the hardware that they had yeah their fans weren't plugged in i believe that radiator is just glued to the back panel well they cut holes for the radiator there's a triple radiator whole series cut but the the tubing doesn't reach and they had not planned to do custom water cooling because they knew coming into the competition wouldn't have time but they would have no time for that maybe spending all their time building the case yeah so while I don't necessarily know if the eventual winning spot was entirely deserved especially because they mostly went with an NVIDIA theme not a gaming no your favorite moment in gaming it was very specifically your favorite moment in gaming which I guess none of them does kind of tie into to fill and I don't know the others really did it anybody yes actually that's a good point because Phil attaches to them through PDX land that's right and you could definitely say that their favorite moment in gaming was attached to PDX land but their system also just plain-old wasn't finished i mean the front fans were just not plugged in yeah even though they did manage to post which ended up being what pushed them over the edge although we did find that the two systems that quote-unquote posted were hitting post code errors and the same post good air that actually team Mongoose was posting on but for some reason wasn't getting a display output yes so overall though with all of that said I was cheering for Team BS mods I told them that I told you that I thought their project their concept was the coolest I think they actually probably had the most amount of people cheering for them including myself as well because it was so ambitious I loved what they were doing crazy and the fact that they pulled it off to the extent that they did is amazing I just wouldn't want to be them cleaning that system up the eventual prize winner because I mean those panels don't even go back on no it's gonna take them an incredibly long amount of time to finish this build outside of the event and much more time than any of the other two bills especially team mongooses but it surely was a cool concept definitely and whoever wins it is gonna be super stoked alright so guys that was our recap of the mod 24 24 hour gaming stream system builds hope you guys enjoyed it I hope that we do an event like this again yeah next week yes next week let's do it okay mod 24 on the airplane going to Germany we've to build little mini ITX systems it's cool alright guys thanks for 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