WCG-TPU Mother's Day Challenge 2013 (5/10-5/19/2013)

WCG-TPU Mother's Day Challenge 2013 (5/10-5/19/2013)
*Challenge will start on 5/10/2013 @ 0:00 GMT (5/9/2013 @ 8pm Eastern)
Challenge will end on 5/19/2013 @ 24:00 GMT (5/19/2013 @ 8pm Eastern)

Hey Team,

Welcome to the WCG-TPU Mother's Day Challenge!!!

Our goal: Honor Mom by showing her what we can do to make the world a better place. How? We run our PC's and donate our 0's and 1's to the World Community Grid to help their humanitarian efforts.

We are all signed up for the Team Challenge (Thanks CP!). Those who are participating please get your rigs ready to CRUNCH.

More info to follow...

First Item to note:
Here's a link to our Teams Official Challenges Thread
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111360
We have a record kept of current/past/upcoming challenges here so take a look and see where we've been and where we're going next


The Challenge will run from Friday May 10th and until Sunday May 19th (Mother's Day is Sunday May 12th)

Links:


http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=5842
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,35088_lastpage,yes#420593

Challenge is for the most points within the 10 day Challenge period and with our current Team growth, I believe we can make a strong showing in the Challenge.
Challenge results:
Day 1 (5/10/2013)- Total- 2,808,699 points (Rank #1), Net- 2,808,699 points
Day 2 (5/11/2013)- Total- 5,439,097 points (Rank #1), Net- 2,630,398 points
Day 3 (5/12/2013)- Total- 8,260,756 points (Rank #1), Net- 2,821,659 points
Day 4 (5/13/2013)- Total- 11,063,949 points (Rank #1), Net- 2,803,193 points
Day 5 (5/14/2013)- Total- 13,893,754 points (Rank #1), Net- 2,829,805 points
Day 6 (5/15/2013)- Total- 16,958,016 points (Rank #1), Net- 3,064,262 points
Day 7 (5/16/2013)- Total- 19,572,695 points (Rank #1), Net- 2,614,679 points
Day 8 (5/17/2013)- Total- 22,595,778 points (Rank #1), Net- 3,023,083 points
Day 9 (5/18/2013)- Total- 25,270,848 points (Rank #1), Net- 2,675,070 points
Day 10 (5/19/2013)- Total- 28,058,765 points (Rank #1), Net- 2,787,917 points

AND YES THERE WILL BE PRIZES- CHECK THE SECOND POST (BELOW) FOR DETAILS*

Updates/additional information to follow....

Spoiler: Links to past Challenges

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2759471#post2759471

 

Prizes, Results, News, etc...

We have a few prizes in and likely some more on the way. Here's a quick rundown:

We have added a Poll for prize entry- please review the notes below before selecting:
- Requirements/terms for winning a prize are outlined below
- You may vote for more than one item (see poll for more info)
- Vote carefully. You can't change your selection once it is made (PM me if you want to change something)
- Select All Prizes AND Not entering If you want to enter for grand prize only (Sorry- forgot to add that option)

Grand Prize: Win A Crunching Rig* (donated by our Team)
We ask that the winner dedicate a minimum of 6 months crunching for the Team on the rig.
Specs (subject to change):
- Enermax Ostrog Giant case
- Asus P5B Deluxe WiFi version (no antenna though)
- psu (500w minimum)
- C2D E8400
- minimum 4GB DDR2
- Palit Geforce 9800GTX
- 250GB HDD
- Windows 7 Pro
*Note- US Shipping is included for the rig (International winners will need to pay any additional shipping charges over $50)

Special Prize for dedicated Crunchers/Folders*
*see entry requirements below
We have a special prize of a PowerColor LCS 7970 graphics card that is being donated by the54thvoid
Link:
http://powercolor.com/us/products_features.asp?id=394#Specification
Pic:

Spoiler: PowerColor LCS 7970

*shipping cost to be paid by the winner*

Spoiler: Statement from the54thvoid

Requirements to enter:
- Be an Active Cruncher for our Team for the past 6 months
- Have an average ppd of at least 1,000 ppd (using average column in the link below)
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/15/user/list/16/0/22175
- Pledge to use the card to Crunch, if GPU work is available, OR Fold, if it is not, for a minimum of 6 months for our Team(s)

Drawing for this card will be done on 5/19/2013 with the other hardware drawings (winning the card will not exclude you from other prizes)


Other prizes (more to come)
*Note-If anyone is interested in donating a prize- please contact me, ThE_MaD_ShOt, [Ion], or Chicken Patty (additional volunteers to assist with this would be great)


Hardware Prizes
- Corsair H60 cooler (BNIB)- provided by theonedub
- Logitech X-210 2.1 speaker set (EU only- winner pays shipping)- provided by Chevalr1c
- Razer Orca headset- provided by manofthem
- Azza Silenium PC case- case provided by sneekypete/US shipping covered by Norton
- Zalman MS800 PC case- case provided by sneekypete/US shipping covered by Norton
- $25 Paypal gift (x2)- provided by NHKS
- $25 Paypal gift - provided by Bow
- Windows 7 Pro key - provided by NHKS
- Windows 7 Pro key - provided by [Ion]
- $50 NewEgg gift card/$50 Paypal gift (winners choice) provided by Norton
- COOLER MASTER GeminII M4 cooler(BNIB)- provided by stinger608
more TBA

Game Giveaway
Note- manofthem will be hosting the game giveaway. Date 5/13 thru 5/16
Link here:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=183928

Requirements/terms to qualify for a prize:
- Participate for the duration of the Mother's Day Challenge
- Earn a minimum of 10,000 BOINC points for Team WCG-TPU during the Qualifying period (see below)
- Qualifying period ends when all participants reach 10,000 BOINC points or 5/19/2013 (whichever comes 1st)
- Winners will be chosen randomly at the end of the qualifying period.
- Participation in the Game giveaway will require that you are actively crunching during this Challenge

How Random Winners Will be Drawn (see below):

Spoiler: Random Drawing system provided by the theonedub

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:

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.

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.

If there are any questions about this system, drop me a PM.

Note(s):
- If for some reason you want to participate but start late you may still qualify for the prizes, PM me or the Team Captain (Chicken Patty) to discuss your situation and we'll make those decisions on an individual basis


Challenge Participants:
*WCG user name in () if different from TPU user name
list pending...

 

I'm in! Kinda fitting for Mother's Day, as the Cancer that took my Mother is the reason I've been Folding/Crunching for the last 5 years. We will find a cure one day!

 

Hey Team- just some clarification on the start/end times and dates:

Challenge will start on 5/10/2013 @ 0:00 GMT (5/9/2013 @ 8pm Eastern)
Challenge will end on 5/19/2013 @ 24:00 GMT (5/19/2013 @ 8pm Eastern)
Total time- 10 days
* I've added this to the OP as well.

Figured we would need to address this at some point (saw 9 days mentioned a few times)- WCG will use the times above to show the daily totals for the Challenge.

Hope this clears things up a bit and my apologies for any confusion

 

Bring it! All help is welcome

FYI- WCG crunching is a much better stability test IMHO than IBT or prime AND you get some valuable work done while heating up your rig

 

I give my new crunching rigs about 2-3 hrs run time to make sure I have all of the updates done/everything is running OK- then they get put at full throttle crunching until.... forever or until they break, whichever comes first

I do set the work buffer low for the first few days just in case it starts throwing errors.