so what time zone do i fold for    Ontario canada 

troy8d

10/21/11

• Due to the large turn out for this contest, we are going to increase the point goal to 50 million.  It should take teams somewhere around 14 to 21 days to complete depending on how they perform.
• Reminder to all participants that a minimum of 100,000 points is require to qualify for winning any of the folding gifts.  If you cannot reach this level due to the limitations  of your hardware, you must contact me before the contest begins to remain eligible.
• Many people are asking about the exact start time of the contest and the exact start time will remain unknown except to drougnor and myself.  It could start at any point on the 24th...in any time zone. 

 
As for what TZ your folding for, it really doens't matter, besides trash talk, lol

Sleinous

troy8d

the exact start time will remain unknown except to drougnor and myself.  It could start at any point on the 24th...in any time zone. 

Namely GMT 0 please ;)

no no, noon CET tomorrow the 23rd, makes it midnight the 24th on the Chatham Islands (NZ)

changed to 50 million? I guess I'm not surprised with the hardware we have today and we seem to have more members this year then last year too
 
for anyone wondering this was the old contest page for 2010, solonw and bwm at the time were folding as thier own team since they were producing massive points with some kinda work server farm if I remember right
 
https://sites.google.com/site/evgacontests/stats

HOW IMPORTANT IS THE ESTIMATED PPD GOAL? IS 10% +/- FROWNED ON?

LoL BWM was the guy who always "had issues with someone/something" But yea he had a farm of i7's
 
and i just realized.... This TZC starts when the most epic game ever releases LOL.... This is gonna be tuff to not game...

lol, that explains alot of what happens in my check book

Macaholic

s7icky

and i just realized.... This TZC starts when the most epic game ever releases LOL.... This is gonna be tuff to not game...

Looks like we will be able to separate the men from the boys.

Bahaha Im sorry but all the "Cool People" play BF3
 

drougnor
The bonus of having kids/console/contest happening during work crunch.  I have an option if I HAVE time to game, but likely, I simply won't have the time.

• Wake - Morning routine
• Go to work
• Get home - Eat - Call Family time
• Pass out
• Repeat

That's my next . . . oh, forever, it feels like.  The folding will make sure my PCs don't feel left out and ignored. 

FIXED^

_Nite_

yodap

HOW IMPORTANT IS THE ESTIMATED PPD GOAL? IS 10% +/- FROWNED ON?

I think I remember troy saying within 20% of +/- what you enter

and Big Advance users have acception too since they take a day or 2 to finish per unit.

 
 
I did not say that.

er.um...lines 52-53 would be an issue in that list
 

I don't know if I should be listening to people that have NOT signed up for the contest yet.
 
The way I did it was a % you are above or below your projected rate.  (i.e. 0% means you are right on target).  The way you did it, it was what portion of your reported output are you producing (i.e. 100% means you are right on target).  If you notice, are numbers are exactly the same with the exception that yours are100% higher (+100%) than mine. 
 
Either way is fine with me...whatever you guys think is easiest to understand.

50 million points now? :(
 
30 million is still plenty! Oh well, i'm sellin my Azza case to help pay the power bill lol....craigslist here I come.
 
Gonna run a few for a few. troy, would my ppd be what i claimed?
 

I don't know about others, but I had to be somewhat conservative on my PPD estimate, even though recent EOC stats would indicate otherwise.  I also had to factor-in the few days that I know I can't Fold during TZC. 
 
I primarily Fold/go after the larger Bigadvs (aka Bigbeta) WU's on my 980X and the PPD from them vs a standard Bigadv is significant.  However, those things can dry up over-night and can't be counted upon to always be available.  My most recent EOC stats would reflect (IMO) an unprecedented run of 6904 WUs (I've had 5 of them back-to-back this month).  So I decided to use standard Bigadvs for my PPD estimates.  I didn't want to "count" upon those Bigbetas' to be there.  Let me know if I need to figure things differently.

rjbelans

troy8d
.......  I (think) the first pulled update was at 11:30 AM EDT this morning...

If you pulled the 11am stats, then your PPD calc should be based on a 10am start time. It looks like it is calculating using some other basis for figuring out the days portion of it. i.e. mflanaga should show as about 2 mil PPD right now instead of 500-600k PPD (these numbers are obviously skewed due to timing and duration)

 
That is the time of the first WUs pulled for points simply because thats when I was working on it this morning. but the PPD for the sheet is based on a start time of midnight.