Chimp Challenge 2013 Captains Notice

Glory huh?
ok I was thinking that one of these days I will start a thread with a topic "Why do you guys fold?"

Because it cannot be the money. If anything we kill hardware and we pay higher electricity bills. And for what?
Cannot be the glory, because the last time I checked I never saw any papers where they acknowledged my name
Is it the science? Who cares about science anyway I am a scientist in the first place. why the hell do I need to fold protein for?
Is it the competition? See your points and name going up the league? Hmm...perhaps. That sounds plausible.
or the personal angle? someone close has/had a personal loss due to a medical condition. Possibly.

I just find the whole idea very intriguing to be honest.

 

because ive lost all my grand parents to cancer and my Uncle has Parkinson's disease

 

It always Medical
usually family - in my case Definitely family

I could just open my checkbook and donate - and get nothing in return (except maybe a deduction) unless Im a big wig and I get a few pats on the back for having a big Heart - I give anyways (anomymously)

you could always volunteer fund raise or or charity work (I do that anyways)

or you fold - do some of the work - pay $$ for hardware $$ for electricity ..and $$for repairs and upgrades and more rigs ...while having a bit fun and watching my rank ...yeah that's the ticket

anyways if you can't afford it.... don't do it
if you can get the message out then do it - everyone that folds helps
if you can do anything to help your fellow man or your future children or family do it


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New capts to vote on issues 15th for date
17th on new team
18th on format (we'll see about that)

MPC is out - they wanted a return to the original chimp (straight PPD) and Chimp names


Ie changing chimp names is ok for small teams try or people with few rigs
try 12000 folders
try 1200 active
try multiple rigs - with some remote - and expect no errors
the bigger the team the harder time to track down the problem(s) - where the error(s) are

 

as seen as this thread isnt really being updated...

the chimp challenge starts Saturday 13th to Monday 22nd April

and i think there still discussing everything else :/

 

Sorry for not keeping you guys up to date... real life and continuing pc issues are getting in the way...

Aside from being a monumental failure as captain... i'll try and catch up with what's going on challenge wise...

now excuse me while i bash my head against a big rock...

 

I want format and formula this week - so your capts have to participate - read - update with ideas or tweaks or formula would be nice

as ADAK has said - we need a simple format & formula

no more delays

 

The economic downturn really has hit folders hard...

 

Adak's proposal is in the CC capt stats thread
looks like it's what we are going to use

Check in, chime in and inform your team

 

AFAICT the captain's threads are supposed to only be available to captains, so our captain (not sure who that is, and not inclined to check today) needs to post info here for those of us who are going to participate.

 

Just reading through the thread now...

 

OK just to confirm come Saturday the 13th turn everything on and stock up the electricity meter - is that all we have to do ?

 

As it currently stands: other than fold your nuts off, no, as this years there's no Team names. Though if you want to fold as CustomBitChimps for the duration there's nothing stopping you.

The [not quite due to the no team names] Chimps Challenge runs from April 13th 2013 1800 UTC [1200 PDT, 1900 BST] and runs til April 23rd 2013 1800 UTC

Scoring is still being finalised but the general thinking behind it is whichever team can up their PPD by the greatest %age will win, bigger teams will obviously have to find more new folders to increase there %age than a smaller team would.

Once it's all been finalised i'll post how it'll all work on here.

 

Presumably with the same key as in previous years?

 

afaik it's the same key... still waiting on coola to pm that stuff over tbh

 

Been the same key for the last few years, I still have it and can PM if needed. Just drop me a message.

 

That time again!! Send me a reminder to start and I'll be there

 

Thanks for the offer - I still have it, but wanted to get confirmation.

 

Could one of you PM the CustomBitChimps key, that way i have it...

Scoring is nearly finalised, it's not perfect but hopefully it should put all 9 teams on an equal footing...

 

details?

 

The general gist -

Each team has a multiplier based on the PPD of the past 2 chimp challenges, EVGA's being 1 as they are/were the top producer, Ours in the region of 3 as out PPD was ~1/3 that of EVGAs.

PPD x Multi = Race Points, most race points wins.