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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/29 16:09:42
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Unless someone has a better suggestion, I was thinking around 12:00 PM Eastern time for the prize drawing on Thursday 12/31? This would give our Pacific Time Zoners time to have a cup of coffee before hand and be early enough to not interfere with anyone's plans to celebrate the holiday. It would also be early enough that our European folders can tune in as well if they so desire...I suppose another option would be to do it tomorrow Wednesday 12/30 if people prefer that.
I'm thinking its not exciting enough to set up a live stream...unless there is a huge demand for that I was going to set up a google doc where you can tune in and watch the drawing and selection process if you wanna see who wins what or if you want to do some quality control to make sure things are on the up and up.
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/29 16:25:37
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troy8d
Unless someone has a better suggestion, I was thinking around 12:00 PM Eastern time for the prize drawing on Thursday 12/31? This would give our Pacific Time Zoners time to have a cup of coffee before hand and be early enough to not interfere with anyone's plans to celebrate the holiday. It would also be early enough that our European folders can tune in as well if they so desire...I suppose another option would be to do it tomorrow Wednesday 12/30 if people prefer that.
I'm thinking its not exciting enough to set up a live stream...unless there is a huge demand for that I was going to set up a google doc where you can tune in and watch the drawing and selection process if you wanna see who wins what or if you want to do some quality control to make sure things are on the up and up.
Just checking that the ending tonight at midnight is Eastern Time, so about 4 & 1/2 hours from now, correct? Might as well draw it tomorrow (12/30) if you're able imho, particularly if people have plans for NYE. Also that might allow a few of the items to get in the mail system on 12/31 rather than waiting 4 more days because of the weekend and the New Years Day holiday. Live stream or Google doc, whatever is best for you, and I guess we can all comment back here congrats and exchange addresses to send items via PM. Does EVGA still have a live chat board of some sort? They used to a long time ago, not sure if it still exists. Kind of like Twitch but without video, just the messages lol... Thank you for doing this! 
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/29 16:25:52
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Unless someone has a better suggestion, I was thinking around 12:00 PM Eastern time for the prize drawing on Thursday 12/31? This would give our Pacific Time Zoners time to have a cup of coffee before hand and be early enough to not interfere with anyone's plans to celebrate the holiday. It would also be early enough that our European folders can tune in as well if they so desire...I suppose another option would be to do it tomorrow Wednesday 12/30 if people prefer that.
I'm thinking its not exciting enough to set up a live stream...unless there is a huge demand for that I was going to set up a google doc where you can tune in and watch the drawing and selection process if you wanna see who wins what or if you want to do some quality control to make sure things are on the up and up.
Friday would be best for me as I will have my first day off in 5 weeks. We do not get Christmas eve or new years Eve off and new years eve is my wedding anniversary. I for one trust you (unless of course, you win all the prizes) 
LUL Rigged ^_^ Works for me, even though I shant win anything cuz my luck has been horrible since I got laid off lol edit: also we can always use a Discord for the drawings or whichever, doesn't matter to me, I'll be around at some point during the day. Next year if I still have it I'll have to add this ol' 1600W LEPA G PSU I have lying around to the prize pool, used for less than a year (cables were stiff & I didn't need that much power anymore, was used for a QuadFire setup) so basically brand new. Basically a folder's dream having that much powa in one unit. lol
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/29 16:27:58
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Friday would be best for me as I will have my first day off in 5 weeks. We do not get Christmas eve or new years Eve off and new years eve is my wedding anniversary. I for one trust you (unless of course, you win all the prizes)
You sure your Mrs isn't going to rip your nuts off for being on EVGA on your wedding anniversary (and your first day off in 5 weeks)? 
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/29 16:42:01
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Nereus
Just checking that the ending tonight at midnight is Eastern Time, so about 4 & 1/2 hours from now, correct?
Might as well draw it tomorrow (12/30) if you're able imho, particularly if people have plans for NYE. Also that might allow a few of the items to get in the mail system on 12/31 rather than waiting 4 more days because of the weekend and the New Years Day holiday.
Live stream or Google doc, whatever is best for you, and I guess we can all comment back here congrats and exchange addresses to send items via PM.
Does EVGA still have a live chat board of some sort? They used to a long time ago, not sure if it still exists. Kind of like Twitch but without video, just the messages lol...
Thank you for doing this!
I'm OK with doing it tomorrow if that's what people prefer!
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/29 16:43:43
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/29 16:46:55
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/29 17:50:29
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in 3 more days I'll pass 200M at this rate
basically doubling my point count in 2 weeks
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/29 18:10:35
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All I know is, I'm glad "I" didn't pass Troy during this contest. You know who you are!!!!
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/29 19:14:16
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I guess we'll stick with the Thursday the 31st at 12:00 noon Eastern for the prize drawing 
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/29 19:22:33
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No worries. I'll be back at work next week, so there may be a bit of a wait before I can get another chance to get that 3060 Ti out to whoever wins it.
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/29 19:27:57
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I have a WU that should finish about 11:50pm EST that should push me over the 60m mark for the TZC.
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/29 19:46:09
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Well thanks to the TZC, I pushed my gpus a bit harder and upped my ppd and if nothing bad happens I'll pass 3 billion on the 31st.
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/29 20:14:56
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Nice!
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/29 20:43:09
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...and just finished the WU that should push me over 60mil for the TZC, my personal goal (at least for the last few days). 
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/29 20:52:48
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3 minutes or so until the last flat file for the contest gets downloaded . . .
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/29 21:00:53
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Yay! 60,246,799 points. Congrats everyone who made it to the end! Something in the area of 10 Billion points all up I think!
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/29 22:26:47
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=/ Was hoping to get back in at the end but that ended with a no go. I had to tear apart my entire computer, and play guess what did it. In the end.. Still have NO IDEA. I now have a fresh install of Windows 10 tho -___- my RMA PSU comes in tomorrow... late to the party. Pretty sure one of my 1080 Ti's is on it's way out the door. My PSU is not putting out enough watts.. I retimed my CPU tho!... which only dropped a few degree's in temps. I spent my ENTIRE day off stripping my PC.. cleaning it.. backing up files, reformatting windows, and trying to get everything back up as I have no day off till sunday... My laptop is sitting in a best buy Depot for repairs and I haven't heard ANYTHING on it sense the 16th. Grats on everyone who was able to complete it tho!
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/29 23:19:07
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Well it looks like I failed at the end to hit my average. Either the power or Internet at home is out as the last two updates on extreme overclocking show 307K and 0 points. Guess I'll find out in a few hours.  Edit: Fortunately, it was just the Internet. Restarting the router wouldn't work so I had to shut every computer down, unplug the router and 4G antenna than plug in the antenna and router for the Internet to come back. It was weird that all of the projects were able to upload but it could not download anything. It gave the following message for 11.5 hours:
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/30 03:22:59
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Not being fussy or anything .... but ....  Next year, can the "Other" team be called "Others" or "The Others"? I just tried to send a shout out to my fellow team members, who were awesome, btw. But "GO OTHER !!!!" just sounds rude !  Just sayin' Well done everyone - it was a blast.
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/30 03:33:04
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Congrats everyone! I also had my best month ever by far at over 46 million. 4.84 billion contest points total is awesome.
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/30 03:59:53
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we could have named it Bad Berties
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/30 04:56:44
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Well Troy used my silly suggestion and now I wish a whole lot more thought went in to it. For now call yourself winners.
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/30 05:27:50
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12/30/2020- Congrats to 'The Rest' for winning the 2020 TZC!
- Thanks to everyone that participated in the TZC this year - its your efforts that make these contests work!
- Please take a moment to offer some thanks to drougnor for being the stats PIMP once again. We should not take his efforts for granted simply because he has been so reliably willing to provide stats for our contests and team in general!
- Also a big thanks to notfordman for being our PMMaster this year and getting the word out to get people signed up for the contest
- We had some very impressive numbers this year:
- 4.84 billion points in 10 days
- 110 or so active contest folders
- a generous outpouring of prizes donated by our folding community - thanks again to all our donors: STR1D3R_2, favrepeoria, 427jmf, kckinwa, notfordman, SmookinJoe, GTXJackBauer, Nereus, l2528014, c6vette, _2100_, un4givn85, G1ntonic, yodap, BadBertie, the_Scarlet_one, Sprinx
- The prize drawing will take place tomorrow 12/31 at 12:00 PM Eastern. Stop by the forums tomorrow to watch the drawing live!
- If you haven't submitted prize preferences by the time of the drawing, you may forfeit your claim to a prize.
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/30 05:37:40
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Great job Troy... thank you big "D", stats PIMP, Awesome job as always...and yes, big thanks notfordman ( sorry I passed you during the contest BUT you were not mentioned in da rulez!!!!)
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Re: 2020 Time Zone Challenge
2020/12/30 05:50:37
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Thanks Troy, Drougnor, NotFordMan and everyone else who donated and/or participated. This was my first TZC and I look forward to being part of it again in 2021.
Cheers, and Happy New Year!
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