WCG - 17th Birthday Challenge

[Markfw]

When we started this race, I wasn't even sure we'd beat P3D straight up considering what the showing they had at the Pentathlon this year.

Now here we are. With points not only greater than P3D, but P3D and SG combined. Just wow.

Simply put. This team is amazing.

PS
Guess all those previous years of two or three teams VS us has paid off.

Well, I don't think I am the main reason that we won so big.... But this is the first yeat I had over 1100 cores, and strong ones also, all in on this. Its medical, so of course.....

 

[Skillz]

Oh, and there is more: In 2020, we finished with 350 M points. We passed this score an hour ago too, despite being limited to mcm1 this year.

Which also meant 3 less days.

 

[Fardringle]

Edit: Never mind. The counter was showing zero for me, but my computer was just being stupid (or maybe I was). Pretend I didn't post this early..

 

[StefanR5R]

There is still one more hourly update which needs to happen.
(Which will take long: Until WCG's challenge page is updated.)

 

[Fardringle]

Good point. The counter was showing zero time left for some reason. I wiped out the NOT final stats in my previous post since they were incorrect.

 

[Icecold]

Well.. uhh.. if nobody else wants to announce it -

Teams	Total
TeAm AnandTech	375,763,684
points from Planet 3DNow! and SETI.Germany, after excessive partying, last seen wandering off upstairs together¹	364,825,816

We beat 'hypothetically fused P3D and SG' by 10,937,868 points.

 

[pututu]

Gratz TAAT. That was a very big lead. Was hoping P3D would give a tough fight since they were very close in the final day of last year challenge. Maybe next year, lol

 

[cellarnoise]

Good job everyone! The big dogs on this team know how to bite!

Here is a temporary badge (also team artwork) to hold over until this is official. (I think they need to review tape before there can be singing

 

[Skillz]

Honestly, we should be thanking the "3 team trio" for preparing us for this. LOL

 

[cellarnoise]

Anybody tell Stefan to get off the hamster wheel yet! This one anyway?

When is the next Challenge? Haha.

 

[Icecold]

@scole @SystemVipers @VietOZ @Nightmare2 This isn't a 'call out' but an invitation, please join next year's WCG Birthday Challenge. I'm sure your teams can put out a ton of points, and anything WCG should be for a good cause.

 

[Fardringle]

Stefan probably still has bunkers that were dumped but still being validated.

The next challenge is PrimeGrid AP27, and it starts in one hour. http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=9792

Tasks downloaded before the start time do not count for the challenge, so no bunkering allowed.

 

[StefanR5R]

@pututu, you made it! :-D
(With a huge improvement over the previous year too.)

 

[pututu]

@StefanR5R , the cool master bunker

 

[voodoo5_6k]

Got up and just saw the final results. Wow. Just wow. Great work everybody

I couldn't throw in as much as some others here (not even close ), but I tried to make the most of what I have (i.e. bunkering enough tasks to keep the system at 100% load for the entire week until the start of the challenge, dump the bunkers on time and then just let it crunch on).

Also, thanks a lot to Stefan for all his "stats-ing", garnished with some witty aside

 

[StefanR5R]

pschoefer posted a graph of total WCG output -vs-. MCM-only output -vs.- non-MCM output from TeAm AnandTech/ Planet 3DNow!/ SETI.Germany:
SG's Challenge thread, post #22

He has also got a comparison of 2021 performance : 2020 performance for several teams at the top of this post.

 

[StefanR5R]

The awards are in!