I folded for EST but I do think we all won for the sake of science. Thanks for the badges but I keep mine in my heart.
 
Congratulations to everyone for an exceptional week or so of folding.

troy8d

willyray
How does TZC determine who captures the 2nd place prize?

Nice finish MST and PST

Sounds like drougnor will be contacting Stanford for a minute by minute record of every WU contest folders submitted 

Last Update: 9:27 PM EDT  
Mountain
49,997,143 3,814,027 2,857 0.00   Pacific
49,694,280 3,790,923 305,720 0.08    
Wow, just this couple thousand points might make contacting Stanford necessary ... depending on if PST can push through more than 305,720 points in the next hour.
 
Heck, this is the most fun I've had following the numbers since the early going ... again, great job folders! 
 
Edit ... beat to the stats, sorry for the repost, but, thoughts remain. 

Had an awesome time during the tzc! Cant wait till the nxt challenge ;)

MST in 2nd finish....a very close one

I had a blast too! Hopefully, next year I'll be crunching on a bigadv rig or two!

continue folding cooley... 
 
just PM troy and explain the error... I would consider it an aberration...
I thought I heard you say your machine went on the fritz and you got it back up?

clifford_cooley

I guess I'm disqualified from the prize pool as I have already stopped my clients.

The challenge was over for me when EST finished 50 Million. During this whole challenge it was the first one to cross the line. Where did this every team must cross come from? Remember this was my first year and don't know all the rules apparently. Even though I have spoken I would not be participating in future events, I was hoping to at least finish this one.

I estimated my PPD at 40K and I made sure I kept to my 40K till the first team crossed. I was not under the impression that TZC would continue till all team's completed 50 Million.

 
Its not a problem and does not disqualify you from winning a prize (as long as you crossed the 100,000 point threshold).  Though the contest is "officially" over, it was announced several times that we would continue to track stats until all teams had completed the challenge.  While I would certainly encourage you to fold with your team to the end, it is not required that you do so. 
 
I am certainly glad that you stuck the contest out to the end, despite your frustrations with the disparity between the big guns and the little guys -- very admirable on your part.  I certainly hope that this will not be the last contest you participate in, but that is entirely up to you.  Depending on how things may or may not shape up in the future, there are a number of potential contest ideas that could "level the playing field" a bit.  Regardless, most people find that at the end of the day the actual points within a contest matter very little.  Fold on!

theGryphon

XZ, I see you're passing by me soon!

it was coming anyways...
I should have my sandy-e at the end of the month...so onto Bigadv- bigbeta on linux
 
MAD will be on my rear view if I don't,    besides... clawing the way up the ladder in the 500's takes time
The new build will step it up for me 

Xavier Zepheriouscontinue folding cooley... 

just PM troy and explain the error... I would consider it an aberration...
I thought I heard you say your machine went on the fritz and you got it back up?

troy8dIts not a problem and does not disqualify you from winning a prize (as long as you crossed the 100,000 point threshold).  Though the contest is "officially" over, it was announced several times that we would continue to track stats until all teams had completed the challenge.  While I would certainly encourage you to fold with your team to the end, it is not required that you do so.

 
Awww why not, let me switch everything back over.
Lets finish what we started, to the finish line.
 
Thanks guys!! :)

theGryphon

From the way it's described in the prize pages, my understanding was that the veterans would have a chance for both bigadv rigs, while regular participants would have a chance for only one bigadv rig.

So, what makes sense to me is to first make the drawing for the veterans-only rig among the veterans, then (excluding the winner) go ahead with the regular bigadv rig drawing. Finally, a single drawing for the smaller prizes should be made, excluding the bigadv rig winners. At any step, if a person does not want a prize, all such prizes should be put back and a second drawing should be made among those who did not win anything in the first drawing. That's how I'd do it anyway...

I like this idea for the bigadv rigs. It does give vets 2 chances and well why not if you have put up the points or been here for long enough it is kind of like having a privilege and may encourage some to stay for longer to be eligible for some big prizes we don't want to just go to someone who is not somewhat dedicated to our team or the cause.

11/6/11 11 PM EST

• Congratulations to the Pacific Time Zone for reaching 50 million points and completing the 2011 Time Zone Challenge!

troy8d

11/7/11

• The list of 2011 TZC contestants the are eligible to receive a gift is available .  If you feel there are any discrepancies (people that should or should not be included) you must let me know before the drawing in order for it to be considered.
• If you wish to be voluntarily removed from the list please let me know.

 
Thanks Troy, but seems page is blank right now.

troy8d

Should be fixed.

Thanks Troy, you're awesome!!!

The list will be updated when Central reaches 50.000.000?
I see many users that have over 100.000 and guess they have more than 2.000.000 for EVGA but are not on that list, that includes me too :)

TROY! you da man. thanks for a great folding event. Everyone is a winner, always remember that fellow folders.