manofthem
WCG-TPU Team All-Star!
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The WCG has been around for 10 years now. For 10 years, volunteers have been contributing their CPU cycles in an effort to further scientific research for the good of mankind. We of the TPU team have thus showed our appreciation and have joined the 10 Year Challenge hosted by Seti.Germany, and in so doing we have pulled out all the stops and are pulling no punches. We would certainly appreciate any additional help and support from fellow TPU members, as it's not too late to get involved.
To get some excitement going, and perhaps a little enticement to non-team members, we have hosted a Game Giveaway full of games that have been donated by fellow team members. Those of us involved with Distributed Computing get great enjoyment out of sharing digital games with others; perhaps by giving games we are less likely to spend time gaming ourselves and taking up precious CPU cycles Please consider joining in and helping us in our Challenge!
Feel free to visit the following links for any additional information:
Official WCG team thread
Official Challenge Thread
Join Team TPU on the WCG link
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
@AlienIsGOD
Insurgency
@ChaoticG8R
The King of Fighters XIII
@T-Bob
Legend of Grimrock
@15th Warlock
Orcs Must Die 2
@ChaoticG8R
Osmos
@stinger608
Alien: Isolation
@Mindweaver
Far Cry 4
@ChristTheGreat
The Details of the Giveaway are outlined below
Requirements: To qualify, you must be an active WCG/F@H team member having returned results by the last day of the giveaway; you must have returned 2,000 points to be eligible for the grand prizes.
The Deal: You may enter for up to 3 of the main games, and then please enter for one of the Grand Prizes. If you wish to opt out of the Grand Prizes, please say so, and if you wish to only enter for one of the Grand Prizes, please say so also.
How to Enter: The world is ending, the planet dying, you are selected to travel across the universe in search of a new home for mankind.
Extra Credit: Feel free to share how many cores/threads you are crunching on. Sharing doesn't actually increase any winning chance/credit, but it'll give many of us something to oogle over
Closing Time: Ending and Drawing will be announced shortly, but this will run for a few good days.
Random Drawing: Drawings will be done randomly, as outlined in the following spoiler below
Special Thanks to those that donated to the giveaway: @FordGT90Concept, @TRWOV, @brandonwh64, @theonedub!
Now get posting below to enter for some games
Rock Out TPU
I'm sure I've made some errors in this post, but I'll be making needed adjustments. Feel free to point them out to me
To get some excitement going, and perhaps a little enticement to non-team members, we have hosted a Game Giveaway full of games that have been donated by fellow team members. Those of us involved with Distributed Computing get great enjoyment out of sharing digital games with others; perhaps by giving games we are less likely to spend time gaming ourselves and taking up precious CPU cycles Please consider joining in and helping us in our Challenge!
Feel free to visit the following links for any additional information:
Official WCG team thread
Official Challenge Thread
Join Team TPU on the WCG link
Airline Tycoon 2
@FordGT90Concept
Batman Arkham Origins
@adulaamin
Borderlands 2
@ChaoticG8R
Deadlight
@stinger608
Dead Space 3
@theonedub
Dustforce DX
@Pandacoder
FTL
@[Ion]
Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition
@FordGT90Concept
@FordGT90Concept
Batman Arkham Origins
@adulaamin
Borderlands 2
@ChaoticG8R
Deadlight
@stinger608
Dead Space 3
@theonedub
Dustforce DX
@Pandacoder
FTL
@[Ion]
Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition
@FordGT90Concept
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
@AlienIsGOD
Insurgency
@ChaoticG8R
The King of Fighters XIII
@T-Bob
Legend of Grimrock
@15th Warlock
Orcs Must Die 2
@ChaoticG8R
Osmos
@stinger608
Alien: Isolation
@Mindweaver
Far Cry 4
@ChristTheGreat
@brandonwh64
@TRWOV
@FordGT90Concept
@manofthem
@theonedub
- Deadlight
- The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing Complete
- Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition
- The Kind of Fighters XIII Steam Edition
- Legend Of Grimrock
- Orcs Must Die 2 Complete
- PixelJunk Eden
- Terraria
@TRWOV
- AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome
- Airline Tycoon 2
- 2x Awesomenauts
- Deadlight
- Dear Esther
- Dustforce DX
- FTL
- 3x Insurgency
- 2x Orcs Must Die 2 Complete
- Osmos
- Serious Sam 3 BFE
- Zenbound 2
@FordGT90Concept
- 4x Risk of Rain (must be redeemed by Nov 25)
@manofthem
- Batman Arkham Origins
- Borderlands 2
- Dead Space 3 (Origin)
- Far Cry 4 (uPlay) (sorry, North America residents only, uPlay limitation)
- Mirror's Edge
@theonedub
The Details of the Giveaway are outlined below
Requirements: To qualify, you must be an active WCG/F@H team member having returned results by the last day of the giveaway; you must have returned 2,000 points to be eligible for the grand prizes.
The Deal: You may enter for up to 3 of the main games, and then please enter for one of the Grand Prizes. If you wish to opt out of the Grand Prizes, please say so, and if you wish to only enter for one of the Grand Prizes, please say so also.
How to Enter: The world is ending, the planet dying, you are selected to travel across the universe in search of a new home for mankind.
Your question: What game would you bring on your journey across space and time to play til infinity?
Extra Credit: Feel free to share how many cores/threads you are crunching on. Sharing doesn't actually increase any winning chance/credit, but it'll give many of us something to oogle over
Closing Time: Ending and Drawing will be announced shortly, but this will run for a few good days.
Random Drawing: Drawings will be done randomly, as outlined in the following spoiler below
To ensure everyone gets a fair shake and to minimize any potential conflict of interest while maintaining the highest level of transparency- I have drafted a new way to draw winners. The system uses (3) members and works as follows:
My hope is that this will alleviate any concerns about drawings and their legitimacy. If it works smoothly, I would like to see this become the new standard when conducting giveaways that have prizes donated by the community.
The system makes sure that there is no bias or other favoritism at play when winners are drawn. Winners are drawn based on a random number instead of usernames- where a possibility exists to redraw if that person doesn’t like who won, draw a friend, draw themselves, pass on new members, or skip doing a random drawing all together.Member 1: This member creates a list of all qualified participants usernames. This list is sent to Member 2.
Member 2: Using the list of names, Member 2 will assign each entrant a unique number. A list of the usernames with the unique numbers is sent back to Person 1. The list of just the random numbers is sent to Member 3.
Member 3: Member 3 has a list of just numbers. They use Random.Org or whatever random system to select which number wins a given prize. The list of winning numbers and the associated prize is then sent back to Member 1.
Member 1: Using the lists, Member 1 ‘decodes’ the winning numbers into the winning usernames and posts the results.
The lists are sent as Private Messages through the forum. This establishes an electronic record of everything while also preventing alterations of lists after the drawing.
When the winning usernames are posted by Member 1, Member 2 can verify that the number belongs to the correct username and Member 3 verifies that the number was actually pulled as a winner.
My hope is that this will alleviate any concerns about drawings and their legitimacy. If it works smoothly, I would like to see this become the new standard when conducting giveaways that have prizes donated by the community.
Special Thanks to those that donated to the giveaway: @FordGT90Concept, @TRWOV, @brandonwh64, @theonedub!
Now get posting below to enter for some games
Rock Out TPU
I'm sure I've made some errors in this post, but I'll be making needed adjustments. Feel free to point them out to me
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