The Scottish Boinc Team

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/522

Name Yuri Gagarin - 80 anniversary of the birth
Status Upcoming
Project Asteroids@home
Issued by Astronomy.Ru Forum
Start time 2014-03-09 00:00 UTC
End time 2014-03-10 00:00 UTC
Late entrants allowed? Yes
Number of teams participating » 15
Number of users participating 0

Pardon my ignorance but are 24 hour challenges really worth it?
Its fine if it's a project you are crunching but being organised to get the full 24 hours when swapping projects requires more planning - a trait I am somewhat lacking in!

Totally agree. Would work ok on a project where you don't need wingmen. For projects that require a quorum of 2 or more then it is a pointless lottery, or you have to start days beforehand .
People seem to be posting up competitions with no thought to the logistics or even taking into account other competitions running simultaneously that were announced weeks previously.

Silver wrote:Pardon my ignorance but are 24 hour challenges really worth it?
Its fine if it's a project you are crunching but being organised to get the full 24 hours when swapping projects requires more planning - a trait I am somewhat lacking in!

No they are not worth it. To get anywhere with them you'd either have to be ridiculously well organised, or possibly just well equipped [ Oe-er! Matron! ] and rather impulsive and ready to manually reconfigure everything with minutes to go! So, let's go! Let's hope someone or somemore have been bunkering!

And does anyone know what the birth asteroid even was?

TSBT 8th from 14

Individually
Janos of TSBT 32
David Jackson 41
Skywalker TSBT 44
alez [ TSBT's Pirate ] 50
Megacruncher TSBT 63
Arnie 127
Radio 217