The Scottish Boinc Team

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/441

Name [Season 1 - Episode 11-12 : Black Friday Crunch !]
Status Upcoming
Project SETI@Home
Issued by BRIGADE DU COSMOS
Start time 2013-11-29 07:00 UTC
End time 2013-12-02 07:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? No
Number of teams participating » 13
Number of users participating 0

The next seti challenge......3 days of seti, again....

Hmm, I don't think it will be for me....

Silver wrote:Hmm, I don't think it will be for me....

No, I totally agree. Seti comps are basically a waste of time unless you crunch seti exclusively. There are just too many people who crunch it which means that units take far too long to validate to make any form of competition a valid offer. I have had units take weeks to validate as my wingman has hoarded tons of units so you don't see their returns for weeks.
Crunchers like Stephan Osteval, Tam etc. do very well for us as they crunch Seti and only Seti. For the rest of us, well, I sometimes use it as an incentive to boost my personal figures but that's all.

That's it exactly Alez.
I do run some seti units just to keep me in the top 200, 000 :)
I've received ~35k credits in the last month and gone up ~25k places.
As you said, it's really not competition friendly.

TSBT finished 13 from 24
our individuals were
Stefan Ostadal 43rd
Tam 109th
Grant 158th
Mark Henderson 289th
Haddingtonian 370th
ivoryfrog 413th
Peter Teago 416th
alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] 437th
and everybody else that competed but didn't make the top 500