Opolis are you going to set which of the 5 Disciplines we tackle or are we going to do all 5?

Each registered team gets a vote on each of the 5 disciplines.  The one project with the most votes under each discipline is the one to be crunched by all.  Have a look here at the choices for each discipline for this year's contest.  Some of the disciplines overlap during the contest, so teams choose whether to stick to one project or if they'll have better luck by switching to the next project.
 
EDIT: Just want to add our team has participated in this contest the last couple of years, and it's a lot of fun.  I'm looking forward to it!

i would love to help with my meager equipment and anything else i can come up with between now and then, I won't be able to swich tasks very much during the week and my gpu likely won't be all that much help but i still wanna play :)
 

Everyone's contribution counts, no matter how small or large.  We need all the crunchers we can get!  As planetclown said, each team gets a vote on which project they want for each category.  I can make another thread when voting and registration are open where each of us can put in our votes for what we would like to run, and the projects that get the most votes will be our final vote submitted on the seti.germany site.  Each project will run for only limited time so we will have to switch between them.  Some projects will overlap, so each teammate will have to think about what runs better on their rig and when to switch, or run projects side by side.
 

yodap
I think the teams that do the best run all 5 and the individuals within the team run to their strengths.

You got it, I think that is the general tactic.

I was just thinking about this.  I missed out last year because of the move back from Okinawa.
Opolis, if you registered last year, are getting email updates on it for this year?

No, I have not received any emails from them.  Someone mentioned it in the new thread in the folding contest section and I thought "totally forgot about that, I wonder when it starts."  So far it looks like the website isn't updated from last year except for the dates and project list.  The registration form doesn't work yet either.

Okay!  seti.germany sent me an email and it looks like the site is updated for this year.  I will make a separate thread where we can vote on the projects we want for each discipline and then I will use the outcome to sign us up!

The disciplines should be announced soon!

yodap
The disciplines should be announced soon!

Good call, Yodap!  Skynet POGS has been announced as the marathon project, which spans the entire contest.  I wonder if they'll release the optimized application before then.
 
Nice CPU, Orange.  Bringing in some heavy artillary...I'm excited for you!  

Yep, Skynet runs the entire length, and the others will run aside it.
So we either have then just 2 projects running side by side or maybe even three or 4.
 
So a question to all you pros: HT on or off with it. This may be the only project I´m gonna run. All I have is my 2p intel with 2 E5 2660s
edit: with HT on and 32 cores running I´m getting the full multi on the cpu. So my question boils down to: is it worth dropping cores (or HT) altogether to  really speed up things ?
I first need to get up my BOINC runtime to be able to build up a nice bunker ready for dropping on the 5th in the morning over here.
 

Thanks Orange!
For while I had set it to "only" using 24 threads instead of 32, and things had only marginally sped up from just over 2h to just under 2h. Can´t do any ocing on those  cpus anyway. So I´ll just let them run full speed on all threads at 2.7 Ghz.
Most of my current tasks seem to land in an indirect bunker as my copilot on these is from Seti Germany.
So I´ll let them run without shutting down the network connection for a few more hours, so I can up my Boinc runtime on that computer. Right now its only @ ~50%.

With the TZC ending today, we only get the weekend to rest up and prepare for the Pentathlon.  You guys are way ahead of me but the first project has been announced!  I will keep the first post updated with the project announcements.

I gotta wait until the heatwave subsides.  97F today and no AC.

Barbarossa
Just start crunching Skynet wit a large enough buffer and cut your internet connection. We want to come out the gate with all guns blazing

This tactics might backfire.
The only two "Official" Challenges I've participated in, had this rule:
"Work units downloaded before start time will not be accounted for"
This was a Clear rule With Prime Grid's Super Secret Challange, and the recent Shakespear Birthday Party challange.
So, we will most likely get an exact time, and WU's downloaded before this time, will not Count in the Challange.
 
I also suspect they have a big pile of WU's in the back, possibly special ones. I would be surprised if they are not prepared for this event, running out of WU's just before a Marathon would be silly/ unlogical.
 
However, I have set my preferences to "Obtain work for atleast 2 days, and 1 day in addition, just to be certain to have enough WU's. If they run empty in a middle of an event, they usually solve this pritty quick, but With 2 days of work, you are fairly safe.
Unlike folding, If you abort a WU, they get "Recycled", they are not lost, some others will get them.
 
I have a problem of confirming this Pentathlon rule about download time, I'm on my way abroad, and will be on a boat and pritty unavailable untill mid day saturday, so if someone can look into this, and perhaps confirm, it would be great.
 
However, I have a good feeling about this Challenge, I think we will kick some butt here
 
 

Orange, the problem with that theory is the fact that the Prime Grid challenges are ran by the project itself and can track when a task was downloaded using their own servers to track the download times. The Pentathlon is being ran by a team, Seti Germany, with no access to the servers. I seriously doubt they have any way to track when a task was downloaded.