My Fermi will be the Chimp's for the challenge! (assuming they are out by then...)

Was sad that we did not win last year.  As Rcran said, we were overconfident last year, but with a more coordinated effort this year we can definitely take the Chimp.

I shall get my tech bench in soon, I missed last years by a week :(. Im definately not missing this years!



Chimp Challenge this year will be EVGApes!!!

I talked a little to l334h7l about what might have been our problem out of the gate. He was of the opinion, and I tend to agree, that folks were slow to convert over to the EVGApes name. Perhaps because they were trying to get their points for the promotion, perhaps because they didn't think it was important to switch over until after the CC began. But if you wait until after the CC begins, it takes that much longer for you to complete the unit you are on , and then start the unit going to EVGApes. It will be important to switch over the    -bigadv, and smp units about 2 to 3 days before the CC, and the gpu units the night before. Once we got ourselves organized after the challenge began, we held out own, but we were very slow to get everyone converted over.

just register here http://evga.tachedout.com/forums.php and you´ll get plenty of spam about the cc
you can change over your clients early, the will be a cutoff and only wu coming in after that will count for the challenge

I am registered and ready when you are.

I'm registered now.. all set..let the games begin!!!

Just remember the current teams the PPD they produce sky rocket for the Challenge unlike EVGA there are several people that do not fold year round and for the chimp challenge all of a sudden they are doing 500k+ PPD instead of 1k.  In addition there are some IT guys out there that talk the companies they work for into allowing them to use monster blade servers donating them for the competition.  So don't bet on anything being normal if this is your first year with the team.

Not to condone the use of large company servers but if you do have access to some PCs or Blades laying around or even family talk to them every point counts :)

Just remember using a PC for folding without asking is morally wrong and can be illegal so clear it with whom ever the owner is.  If it is your work or friend/family the electricity and bandwidth used to do this could be considered stealing and you could possibly lose your job or taken to court, so as they say CYA!  We don't want to blemish the challenge or EVGAs reputation as you are representing this community.

I was in last year. I expect to be in this year. Thanks for the email l337h4l. I'm not on the forums a lot and the notification let me know the discussion was starting up. I think the passkey is a good idea - I'll check here from time-to-time to see what we need to do. I think PMing to active team members would be a good idea.

Last year we were slow to start due to the switchover. I think another factor was that we were pretty confident in our regular team. We had some very active people who were on board and thought that would be enough. If I remember this correctly, a few days in some team members began contacting ALL our folding community with emails about switching over, but it was too late to catch up. If we have a similar effort this year, we'll probably need to start a week or two in advance.

I'm ready to kick some ass with my i7 and two GTX 275's

I think all of us will lol
I might be able to call some friends to fold

Expect me to be returning to the fold very soon. I'll definitely be participating in CC10.

I'll try to make sure to have the stats badges updated with the new CC names and whatnot as well. =)

Pardon me for asking, but why is a separate forum needed for the CC when it can be freely discussed here?

Also, is someone going to come up with a new user name to replace last years'?

So we are going to pick another name to fold under? That means one more drop in place for me. Oh, well, I guess I'm getting used to that by now.

I'm ready ... and I hope to do some GPU's upgrade before the CC begins.

sonano

Just got an email.  Count me in for my measly 5k ppd!

5k ppd is nothing to snooze at. It could be one of your wu that brings glory to the team, or finds a breakthrough for a cure