Today's Numbers: Get 'Em While They're Hot!

[[XC] serlv]

Been thinking about this a lot and at the end of the week we're going to send a email Thanking all who came to help and saying if they care to stay on they are more than welcome but not going to extend this another week "formally".
People came with a one week comittment in mind and thats what the deal was.
To try and push them into more just "ain't right"
Those that want to stay will and those that decided to do this for just a week will have done their part and leave with our thanks.
All in all it was a great effort by those that came.
Good folks, glad to have met you all.
Doesn't matter if you brought one machine or 21, you brought what you had and brother did you guys make a difference.

it has been awesome to see the enthusiasm of all the new guys. i hope to see a number of ya stick around! there is even more to this team that a week or two can show. the heart and the friendship of WCG-XS is unparalleled.

[=[PULSAR]=]

it has been awesome to see the enthusiasm of all the new guys. i hope to see a number of ya stick around! there is even more to this team that a week or two can show. the heart and the friendship of WCG-XS is unparalleled.

I'm sure a lot of the big new crunchers will stick around. Dave is like the ebola monkey spreading the crunch bug. The only thing I think we have to worry about is team throttling due to the temps. Why can't we get a massive cold front move through like in the day after tomorrow

[sRHunt3r]

I'm definitely sticking around, I didn't upgrade my 3 year old's pc to an i7 920 @ 4.2 for 1 weeks worth of work Not to mention I am very much looking forward to building a killer SR-2 rig

[[XC] mysticmerlin]

The statistics update will finish in about 5 minutes 26 seconds.

And the Final day's Numbers are ................................

[don_xvi]

17,096,566

[slaveondope]

I'll stick around with 8-10 dedicated cores but its been a long week with out gaming on my main rig imo

[=[PULSAR]=]

Xtremesystems 17,096,566

[Movieman]

Xtremesystems 17,096,566

Good day guys!

[=[PULSAR]=]

Not too bad at all for a Saturday...who knows we may still even break 20 mil even though the comp is over.

[SMTB1963]

it has been awesome to see the enthusiasm of all the new guys. i hope to see a number of ya stick around! there is even more to this team that a week or two can show. the heart and the friendship of WCG-XS is unparalleled.

I'm stick'n around for sure. After the MovieMan e-mail, I put together 3 machines from parts that were gathering dust in the storage shed. Today these modest pieces of hardware just passed 100k points! I'll probably earn a couple of badges in the next day or so. The whole experience has been satisfying on so many levels...

...Dave is like the ebola monkey spreading the crunch bug...

Well I'm sure as hell infected. Is there somewhere I can get vaccinated? The most surprising symptom so far is that I've (almost) forgotten all about the LC system I spec'd out - which was how I discovered XS in the first place. I now find myself thinking I'd rather spend the $500 building a dedicated cruncher. Even the missus is on board with the WCG thing...it's entirely possible she may not gripe about my tech expenditures as much anymore! That side effect alone is worth getting ebola (XS mutation).

Thanks to the leadership here at XS for turning me on to the crunching thing.

[Linuxfan]

Great day guys, we didn't get 20K but we got close!
Thanks to everybody for helping out!

[Johnmark]

I'm definitely sticking around, I didn't upgrade my 3 year old's pc to an i7 920 @ 4.2 for 1 weeks worth of work Not to mention I am very much looking forward to building a killer SR-2 rig

Now if only Dave can do his magic and get us a group buy on the SR-2, hex cores annd RAM
I'm also very interested but that is one -ell of a lot of $$ for a home machine, but if a deal could be had, well....
The other thing I was thinking is that we are crunching for charity. So can anyone think of a way we could start a registered charity group. That way we could deduct our expense's off our income taxes! Here is Canada once you've donated $500 towards charities we get a 36% tax deduction Now that would make that rig quite affordable.



John

[meanmoe]

We should definitely have another competition... more notice next time... I'll be better prepared at least.

This time around we destroyed Easynews and upped our numbers quite a bit. The next time, the target will certainly be 2Ch - not just beat, but destroyed...

And MM, put me down on the SR2 list as well

[meanmoe]

Great day guys, we didn't get 20K but we got close!
Thanks to everybody for helping out!

s/20k/20M

[sierra_bound]

It's been a great week. Cheers to everyone on the team.

[hutkikz]

OUCH..that dang monkey bit me
yea I'm commited to this ward now

[croto5000]

This week was a blast. 100M ppd, 100 ppd, it doesn't matter to me. We did an ungodly amount of research and got to meet some cool cats who share our passion for diving into the abyss. A sincere heart-felt thanks goes out to all who lended their resources for the week and I can only hope some of you stick around, if even in a lesser capacity, as our work is never truly done. Carry on, men! Carry on!

[trn]

It was a great week, fun to see what XS could do... we put up some huge numbers nearly matching a team (in ppd) with 10x more members! And I know even though the challenge week is done we will be retaining a lot of new members to the team

[Movieman]

It was a great week, fun to see what XS could do... we put up some huge numbers nearly matching a team (in ppd) with 10x more members! And I know even though the challenge week is done we will be retaining a lot of new members to the team

Exactly..awin-win I think..
The next few weeks will be interersting to put it mildly..

[Jaco]

15,053,937

[Movieman]

15,053,937

I'll take one of those every day and smile!

Team: Points Generated:
Team 2ch 20,725,888
XtremeSystems 15,053,937
Easynews 7,015,844

[Linuxfan]

15,053,937

Very nice for the day after the comp, a lot of people have stayed on methinks.

[radaja]

nice indeed.it would be such an overwhelming success if it leveled out at around 14.000.000
after all the new people who joined that decided to stay kept it at that number.fingers crossed

[GTSRboy]

we are still carrying momentum!

[99Hawk]

I'll be sticking around as well.I seem to have caught the crunching bug thank's to that e-mail! I went and put together another i7 920 on water(seeing as I had an extra pump and stuff.)Sio now I can also get back to some gaming on my main rig!