Christmas comp

Post by **Reeltime** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:39 pm

169560000

Mr Thinhead · Post by **Mr Thinhead** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 2:23 pm

Hm, the 10k brackets didn't last long did they?]

How true.

I think a wee bit of intervention is called for, really mostly to protect the interests of those who did read all the rules. :)

Here therefore is the complete list so far. Three entries have been rounded to the nearest available 10k. If yours was one and you want to change it then just resubmit. Hope this is OK folks (it's the fairest thing to do I think).

Nightlord 170,000,000

Willie the Megacruncher 168,570,000

FTO-Par 170,010,000

ianmbaker2 168,250,000

FlyingfocRS 169,170,000

MacDitch 169,000,000

utopia-i 169,880,000

Reeltime 169,560,000

Even with entries every 10k there are still 100 slots available in each 1 million band. I was hoping to make it more worthwhile guessing ahead in order to get your slot booked, if you see what I mean. Maybe it would have been more competitive if I'd said entries every 100k, but then again maybe war would have broken out.

Who's next?

Post by **Megacruncher** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:19 pm

May I just congratulate Mr Thinhead on his excellent refereeing of an otherwise somewhat unruly competition.

Order out of chaos: Always a good thing.

MacDitch · Post by **MacDitch** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:47 am

May I just congratulate Mr Thinhead on his excellent refereeing of an otherwise somewhat unruly competition.

Order out of chaos: Always a good thing.

Suck-up!

Mr Thinhead · Post by **Mr Thinhead** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 8:05 pm

More entrants please. Especially if you have joined this year and haven't participated in the forums much.

Otherwise the bag of gold (oops, Amazon voucher) might go to one of the old timers who have already entered (AKA The Usual Suspects).

Seriously everyone, I joined TSBT only about 9 months ago. I'm running this comp as my way of celebrating passing 500k. If you think that you must have been crunching since 1948 in order to have a guess then you are mistaken.

Let's see a few more entries from newbies like me. :)

Matelot · Post by **Matelot** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 12:05 pm

Okies, 170,010,000

Mr Thinhead · Post by **Mr Thinhead** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:24 am

The state of play:

Nightlord 170,000,000

Willie the Megacruncher 168,570,000

FTO-Par 170,010,000

ianmbaker2 168,250,000

FlyingfocRS 169,170,000

MacDitch 169,000,000

utopia-i 169,880,000

Reeltime 169,560,000

Matelot 170,020,000

Matelot: I have rounded you up to 170,020,000 because FTO-Par already has 170,010,000. Hope this is OK or you can resubmit if you want.

CLOSING DATE
I know you have all been eagerly waiting for this.

All entries must be in or revised by midnight on SUNDAY 21 DECEMBER.

You can enter or revise your entry up until then. Your entry cannot be the same as an existing entry.

Good luck! 8)

MacDitch · Post by **MacDitch** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:27 pm

Revised my guess slightly:

ianmbaker2 . . . 168,250,000
Megacruncher. . 168,570,000
FlyingfocRS . . . 169,170,000
Reeltime . . . . . 169,560,000
MacDitch . . . . . 169,700,000
utopia-i . . . . . . 169,880,000
Nightlord . . . . . 170,000,000
FTO-Par. . . . . . 170,010,000
Matelot . . . . . . 170,020,000

Post by **rowpie** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 2:36 am

Ok here goes then:

ianmbaker2 . . . 168,250,000
Megacruncher. . 168,570,000
FlyingfocRS . . . 169,170,000
Reeltime . . . . . 169,560,000
MacDitch . . . . . 169,700,000
utopia-i . . . . . . 169,880,000
rowpie... . . . . . 169,950,000
Nightlord . . . . . 170,000,000
FTO-Par. . . . . . 170,010,000
Matelot . . . . . . 170,020,000

MacDitch · Post by **MacDitch** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:54 am

MacDitch . . . . . 168,000,000
ianmbaker2 . . . 168,250,000
Megacruncher. . 168,570,000
FlyingfocRS . . . 169,170,000
Reeltime . . . . . 169,560,000
utopia-i . . . . . . 169,880,000
rowpie... . . . . . 169,950,000
Nightlord . . . . . 170,000,000
FTO-Par. . . . . . 170,010,000
Matelot . . . . . . 170,020,000

Mr Thinhead · Post by **Mr Thinhead** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:59 pm

OK folks, you are now officially on the last lap.

Just 5 days to go to enter or revise your entry.

Deadline is midnight on Sunday coming (21 December).

Post by **Megacruncher** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:49 pm

Just another 24 hrs before entries close. How much I revise my guess by will depend on the extent to which GPUGrid gets its act together.

Nightlord · Post by **Nightlord** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:57 pm

That's a good point Willie!

I think it's better now than a couple of days ago, most of my boxes are back up and running, but I suspect the impact will drop us back a few hours in this comp.

So I'm going to ease back to 169500 and hope GPU remains stable for the next few days....

Mr Thinhead · Post by **Mr Thinhead** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:53 am

Just over 12 hours to go.

Here is the latest list including Nightlord's recent change:

MacDitch . . . . . . . 168,000,000
ianmbaker2 . . . . . 168,250,000
Megacruncher. . . . 168,570,000
FlyingfocRS . . . . . 169,170,000
Nightlord . . . . . . . 169,500,000
Reeltime . . . . . . . 169,560,000
utopia-i . . . . . . . . 169,880,000
rowpie... . . . . . . . 169,950,000
FTO-Par. . . . . . . . 170,010,000
Matelot . . . . . . . . 170,020,000

Boa sorte!

Post by **Megacruncher** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:35 pm

Previously reckless optimism worked well in these competitions. However, as ever, I'm in it to win it, so realism must prevail, the problems at GPU grid and the temporary loss of Buster's input has lowered our RAC a bit. So I'm going to lower my guess to 167,870,000

Mr Thinhead · Post by **Mr Thinhead** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:32 pm

Thanks everyone who entered.

Megacruncher. . . . 167,870,000
MacDitch . . . . . . . 168,000,000
ianmbaker2 . . . . . 168,250,000
FlyingfocRS . . . . . 169,170,000
Nightlord . . . . . . . 169,500,000
Reeltime . . . . . . . 169,560,000
utopia-i . . . . . . . . 169,880,000
rowpie... . . . . . . . 169,950,000
FTO-Par. . . . . . . . 170,010,000
Matelot . . . . . . . . 170,020,000

Here is the deal: as mentioned before I will try to look for the winning score just after midnight tomorow. The actual time I get around to looking depends on much wrapping of presents has to be done.

I'll try to post the winner some time on Christmas Day.

Post by **Megacruncher** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:20 am

Call me a smug bastard (and I am :) ) but surely I have won. Without an unprecedented 1.4 daily upload or greater I am the man. Ole. Ole. Ole! etc!
Any sidebets to the contary?

Post by **ianmbaker2** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:03 pm

Well, I'm certainly willing to concede defeat. Even Rowpie's new Ninja MegaBox isn't going to give the boost it needs to get the total up. So unless there is a hiddden cache waiting to be downloaded...

All Hail The Hero.

Ian

Post by **rowpie** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:20 pm

gratz mega... although all that proves is that the rest of us expect more from the team than you

Post by **Megacruncher** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 12:20 am

Hmm, I think I've just got a superior ability for tracking short term fluctuations. I must thank my P1-4 Primary school teacher Mrs Esselmont, who taught me basic arithmetic!

As regards expectations I doubt if this time last year any of us would have dared predict that we would enter Xmas Day 2008 with a total of 167,066,082: It's a grand time when just under 500,000 counts as a bad day!

Mr Thinhead · Post by **Mr Thinhead** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:01 am

Yes, Willie the Megacruncher is indeed the winner.

Merry Chrismas Willie. :)

I'll PM you later regarding an email address for the prize.

The Scottish Boinc Team

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