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*** 3rd Annual "March Madness" Folding Contest ***

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harlam357

Senior Fold-a-holic
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Team 32 presents
the 3rd Annual OCF Not "March Madness" Folding Contest


The Main Contest Prize

Intel Core i7 920 (D0) LGA1366

Winner: Cluster007 (aka AMD_OCER)


i7920.jpg


The PPD Contest Prize

BFG NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260-216 OC MAXCORE 55 896MB

Winner: FatCamel


GXT260.jpg


The Sign-up Drawing Prize

Viewsonic 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor

Winner: the_cultie



This contest is being sponsored by our friend and teammate StaTek32. I'd like to thank StaTek32 for being so generous and donating our prize. The winner will be shipped the cpu free of charge if they reside in either the Continental US or Canada. If the winner is outside those areas they will be responsible for the shipping charge. Import duties, brokerage fees, handling fees, taxes, etc. are the responsibility of the winner.


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Final Numbers (as of 05-02-10 @ 00:00:00 PDT)

Code:
Folding ID                              Points                    Entries

__Console__                             12875                     2
8thDeadlySyn                            305430                    61
akeval89                                34115                     6
Arashikagesan                           442                       0
aviationfrk                             627437                    125
baditude_df                             0                         0
bchur83                                 218811                    43
Bobnova                                 134717                    26
Bomber5000                              1257439                   251
Bot                                     388243                    77
Caligula420                             0                         0
ChasR                                   6232747                   1246
chuckerants                             991327                    198
Cluster007                              3233435                   646
CompuTamer                              17997                     3
Cowboy_X(www.overclockers.com)          35854                     7
cshive5                                 69807                     13
cw823                                   123596                    24
D~BuzzerD                               0                         0
damaddog                                189379                    37
Dark_Bishop                             457713                    91
Darur                                   219941                    43
davidja                                 6945                      1
dendee                                  157681                    31
dfonda_Team32                           1432207                   286
diggerdude                              31864                     6
dismorphic                              5175587                   1035
DocLiv                                  847579                    169
don256us                                120074                    24
Donuts                                  983808                    196
Duner                                   500254                    100
FatCamel                                4167492                   833
flaughert                               707315                    141
GIXXERGUY6                              1843826                   368
gottcha                                 422071                    84
Haitch                                  1197784                   239
HayesK                                  8917789                   1783
helsyeah                                577208                    115
howetechnical                           0                         0
hrsetrdr                                3144079                   628
JackNSally                              119923                    23
jerseytomato                            331372                    66
JLF12345                                317129                    63
joedymueller                            794931                    158
JollySwagman                            942571                    188
jonspd                                  721298                    144
KF6FVV                                  447342                    89
khach.giang.ho                          8123                      1
Khemikal                                35624                     7
klear                                   855633                    171
KONAKONA                                96976                     19
Kowalski3500                            74140                     14
Lamby853                                379049                    75
Lancelot                                76989                     15
Mark620                                 1908887                   381
Methal                                  1147806                   229
Molnarc                                 1352658                   270
mxthunder                               28672                     5
Nimblor                                 7615                      1
oakstave                                121143                    24
OC-Rev.com                              26334                     5
onefstsnake                             916948                    183
orion456                                3393512                   678
Outback_Jon                             681455                    136
Ozzlo                                   0                         0
P4EE                                    1817612                   363
PeddlerOfFlesh                          550501                    110
petteyg359                              142564                    28
PolRoger                                349533                    69
psionic98                               27584                     5
rahb0sse                                0                         0
Roisen                                  140088                    28
sam__                                   1004                      0
SBschmit                                43430                     8
Schmonk                                 177379                    35
Shelnutt2                               47310                     9
sno.lcn                                 19839                     3
spitter3                                1150526                   230
ssplatt                                 93055                     18
StrategyFreak                           27477                     5
sup3rcarrx8                             123801                    24
surferseth                              1068566                   213
the_cultie                              564256                    112
Torin3                                  2741315                   548
voidn                                   388909                    77
WarriorIII                              159833                    31
werty316                                0                         0
yog1974                                 284915                    56
zybron                                  167136                    33

Final PPD Numbers (as of 05-02-10 @ 00:00:00 PDT)

Code:
Folding ID                              Current PPD               PPD Change

__Console__                             459.8                     -520.3
8thDeadlySyn                            10908.2                   34.4
akeval89                                1218.4                    -349.6
Arashikagesan                           15.8                      -43.6
aviationfrk                             22408.5                   3723.2
baditude_df                             0.0                       0.0
bchur83                                 7814.7                    -1344.0
Bobnova                                 4811.3                    3998.8
Bomber5000                              44908.5                   -397.0
Bot                                     13865.8                   11385.3
Caligula420                             0.0                       0.0
ChasR                                   222598.1                  12803.0
chuckerants                             35404.5                   1176.0
Cluster007                              115479.8                  39567.8
CompuTamer                              642.8                     -562.4
Cowboy_X(www.overclockers.com)          1280.5                    -198.2
cshive5                                 2493.1                    499.3
cw823                                   4414.1                    1468.3
D~BuzzerD                               0.0                       0.0
damaddog                                6763.5                    3222.3
Dark_Bishop                             16346.9                   -426.3
Darur                                   7855.0                    3830.0
davidja                                 248.0                     54.3
dendee                                  5631.5                    -1971.7
dfonda_Team32                           51150.3                   526.0
diggerdude                              1138.0                    1006.7
dismorphic                              184842.4                  -7418.2
DocLiv                                  30270.7                   10462.7
don256us                                4288.4                    -367.6
Donuts                                  35136.0                   34154.6
Duner                                   17866.2                   8414.4
FatCamel                                148839.0                  148567.0
flaughert                               25261.3                   21632.3
GIXXERGUY6                              65850.9                   8775.8
gottcha                                 15074.0                   14917.4
Haitch                                  42778.0                   39497.6
HayesK                                  318492.5                  3731.3
helsyeah                                20614.6                   5509.9
howetechnical                           0.0                       -36.9
hrsetrdr                                112288.5                  14192.8
JackNSally                              4283.0                    -813.3
jerseytomato                            11834.7                   -3763.1
JLF12345                                11326.0                   393.0
joedymueller                            28390.4                   -17791.6
JollySwagman                            33663.3                   -4781.9
jonspd                                  25760.6                   -7116.6
KF6FVV                                  15976.5                   7642.4
khach.giang.ho                          290.1                     290.1
Khemikal                                1272.3                    -304.6
klear                                   30558.3                   107.5
KONAKONA                                3463.4                    -6140.3
Kowalski3500                            2647.9                    1891.9
Lamby853                                13537.5                   -2808.7
Lancelot                                2749.6                    -166.1
Mark620                                 68174.5                   -1875.8
Methal                                  40993.1                   30690.4
Molnarc                                 48309.2                   268.1
mxthunder                               1024.0                    -10469.9
Nimblor                                 272.0                     258.5
oakstave                                4326.5                    -1037.3
OC-Rev.com                              940.5                     6.8
onefstsnake                             32748.1                   -27188.9
orion456                                121196.9                  18936.1
Outback_Jon                             24337.7                   10170.1
Ozzlo                                   0.0                       0.0
P4EE                                    64914.7                   -15738.7
PeddlerOfFlesh                          19660.8                   -1994.0
petteyg359                              5091.6                    1457.7
PolRoger                                12483.3                   -2305.5
psionic98                               985.1                     369.7
rahb0sse                                0.0                       0.0
Roisen                                  5003.1                    3446.7
sam__                                   35.9                      35.9
SBschmit                                1551.1                    -127.1
Schmonk                                 6335.0                    -24914.5
Shelnutt2                               1689.6                    261.9
sno.lcn                                 708.5                     654.5
spitter3                                41090.2                   40866.5
ssplatt                                 3323.4                    -2736.5
StrategyFreak                           981.3                     -7993.1
sup3rcarrx8                             4421.5                    -33.8
surferseth                              38163.1                   26184.4
the_cultie                              20152.0                   -1820.3
Torin3                                  97904.1                   4688.1
voidn                                   13889.6                   -4691.5
WarriorIII                              5708.3                    625.2
werty316                                0.0                       0.0
yog1974                                 10175.5                   347.8
zybron                                  5969.1                    -1107.7

Starting Numbers

Code:
Folding ID                              Points                    Work Units

__Console__                             4570355                   24337
8thDeadlySyn                            3037747                   6061
akeval89                                10976                     23
Arashikagesan                           416                       5
aviationfrk                             2233568                   5483
baditude_df                             116619                    231
bchur83                                 2585508                   3502
Bobnova                                 574194                    341
Bomber5000                              1861581                   1978
Bot                                     153121                    306
Caligula420                             859937                    1852
ChasR                                   151095119                 225286
chuckerants                             2271154                   9167
Cluster007                              11753901                  14406
CompuTamer                              23464                     51
Cowboy_X(www.overclockers.com)          827720                    1944
cshive5                                 13976284                  29135
cw823                                   4903397                   8460
D~BuzzerD                               0                         0 
damaddog                                24789                     51
Dark_Bishop                             2902499                   6557
Darur                                   574642                    1383
davidja                                 63100                     274
dendee                                  3037621                   4638
dfonda_Team32                           14488532                  25136
diggerdude                              1584                      7
dismorphic                              26576006                  10189
DocLiv                                  247617                    231
don256us                                2076505                   6693
Donuts                                  1033695                   1223
Duner                                   1797071                   3290
FatCamel                                596326                    1482
flaughert                               690497                    246
GIXXERGUY6                              3075847                   2649
gottcha                                 1184810                   1843
Haitch                                  22963                     32
HayesK                                  84054968                  100154
helsyeah                                6217524                   27717
howetechnical                           258                       5
hrsetrdr                                28420392                  27514
JackNSally                              3324734                   24573
jerseytomato                            20889410                  28767
JLF12345                                1304405                   2559
joedymueller                            6041578                   9602
JollySwagman                            9791771                   14399
jonspd                                  11621338                  20541
KF6FVV                                  118781                    149
khach.giang.ho                          0                         0 
Khemikal                                514123                    1457
klear                                   17310905                  48185
KONAKONA                                608441                    846
Kowalski3500                            406905                    1728
Lamby853                                3801186                   7372
Lancelot                                1303101                   2361
Mark620                                 26665243                  57875
Methal                                  6227576                   29857
Molnarc                                 3423502                   6029
mxthunder                               1061187                   2373
Nimblor                                 809734                    4911
oakstave                                1763899                   3232
OC-Rev.com                              1599983                   6446
onefstsnake                             4507153                   3816
orion456                                50529696                  55264
Outback_Jon                             3099229                   5379
Ozzlo                                   1720700                   1251
P4EE                                    36040168                  41034
PeddlerOfFlesh                          7047669                   10417
petteyg359                              1478083                   1856
PolRoger                                179747                    363
psionic98                               23329                     51
rahb0sse                                0                         0 
Roisen                                  1670130                   3226
sam__                                   511293                    1882
SBschmit                                2109946                   14352
Schmonk                                 374019                    807
Shelnutt2                               1036928                   1338
sno.lcn                                 1491615                   4307
spitter3                                1566                      2
ssplatt                                 725508                    977
StrategyFreak                           825045                    1429
sup3rcarrx8                             5543445                   15016
surferseth                              15018247                  4643
the_cultie                              2750720                   3888
Torin3                                  35273167                  63573
voidn                                   6905029                   8432
WarriorIII                              3987056                   8382
werty316                                534967                    1235
yog1974                                 5328027                   9275
zybron                                  67125                     95

Starting PPD Numbers

Code:
Folding ID                              Points - Week Prior       Starting PPD

__Console__                             6861                      980.1
8thDeadlySyn                            76117                     10873.9
akeval89                                10976                     1568.0
Arashikagesan                           416                       59.4
aviationfrk                             130797                    18685.3
baditude_df                             0                         0.0
bchur83                                 64111                     9158.7
Bobnova                                 5688                      812.6
Bomber5000                              317139                    45305.6
Bot                                     17364                     2480.6
Caligula420                             0                         0.0
ChasR                                   1468566                   209795.1
chuckerants                             239600                    34228.6
Cluster007                              531384                    75912.0
CompuTamer                              8436                      1205.1
Cowboy_X(www.overclockers.com)          10351                     1478.7
cshive5                                 13957                     1993.9
cw823                                   20621                     2945.9
D~BuzzerD                               0                         0.0
damaddog                                24789                     3541.3
Dark_Bishop                             117412                    16773.1
Darur                                   28175                     4025.0
davidja                                 1356                      193.7
dendee                                  53222                     7603.1
dfonda_Team32                           354370                    50624.3
diggerdude                              919                       131.3
dismorphic                              1345824                   192260.6
DocLiv                                  138656                    19808.0
don256us                                32592                     4656.0
Donuts                                  6870                      981.4
Duner                                   66163                     9451.9
FatCamel                                1904                      272.0
flaughert                               25403                     3629.0
GIXXERGUY6                              399526                    57075.1
gottcha                                 1096                      156.6
Haitch                                  22963                     3280.4
HayesK                                  2203328                   314761.1
helsyeah                                105733                    15104.7
howetechnical                           258                       36.9
hrsetrdr                                686670                    98095.7
JackNSally                              35674                     5096.3
jerseytomato                            109185                    15597.9
JLF12345                                76531                     10933.0
joedymueller                            323274                    46182.0
JollySwagman                            269116                    38445.1
jonspd                                  230141                    32877.3
KF6FVV                                  58339                     8334.1
khach.giang.ho                          0                         0.0
Khemikal                                11038                     1576.9
klear                                   213156                    30450.9
KONAKONA                                67226                     9603.7
Kowalski3500                            5292                      756.0
Lamby853                                114423                    16346.1
Lancelot                                20410                     2915.7
Mark620                                 490352                    70050.3
Methal                                  72119                     10302.7
Molnarc                                 336288                    48041.1
mxthunder                               80457                     11493.9
Nimblor                                 94                        13.4
oakstave                                37547                     5363.9
OC-Rev.com                              6536                      933.7
onefstsnake                             419559                    59937.0
orion456                                715825                    102260.7
Outback_Jon                             99173                     14167.6
Ozzlo                                   0                         0.0
P4EE                                    564574                    80653.4
PeddlerOfFlesh                          151583                    21654.7
petteyg359                              25437                     3633.9
PolRoger                                103522                    14788.9
psionic98                               4308                      615.4
rahb0sse                                0                         0.0
Roisen                                  10895                     1556.4
sam__                                   0                         0.0
SBschmit                                11747                     1678.1
Schmonk                                 218746                    31249.4
Shelnutt2                               9994                      1427.7
sno.lcn                                 378                       54.0
spitter3                                1566                      223.7
ssplatt                                 42419                     6059.9
StrategyFreak                           62821                     8974.4
sup3rcarrx8                             31187                     4455.3
surferseth                              83851                     11978.7
the_cultie                              153806                    21972.3
Torin3                                  652512                    93216.0
voidn                                   130068                    18581.1
WarriorIII                              35582                     5083.1
werty316                                0                         0.0
yog1974                                 68794                     9827.7
zybron                                  49538                     7076.9


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Rules

- Sign-ups: Thursday, March 18th @ 6:00pm PDT through Saturday, April 3rd @ 11:59pm PDT.

The sign-up thread is LINK'D HERE. You must have a post in the sign-up thread with your Folding ID by the sign-up deadline to participate.


- Contest duration: Sunday, April 4th @ 12:00am PDT through Saturday, May 1st @ 11:59pm PDT.

This contest has been aligned with the Stanford Folding week, please note all times are Pacific Daylight (PDT) Time. Official progress numbers will be tallied and shown in this thread and updated periodically (every 2~3 days). Otherwise, you may track your progress using any third-party stats site you choose.


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- What you need to do: Fold work units and earn points for Team 32. :) Each five thousand (5,000) points earned, based on Stanford statistics, during the contest period will earn the participant one entry for the prize drawing... think about it like a raffle.

This contest is open to any and all who sign-up and Fold for Team 32 within the contest period.

- Surprise PPD Contest: I will also be tracking participants' PPD over the entire contest period. I will compare each participant's contest PPD against their PPD from the week prior to the contest. The participant with the greatest gain in PPD will be awarded an NVIDIA GTX260-216 (card model is at the top of this post).

- Contest PPD Calculation: Each participant's contest PPD is calculated by taking their total points in the contest period divided by the number of days completed in the contest period. For example, user A has accumulated 10,000 points in the contest period through day 10. User A's PPD would then be 1,000 PPD.

- Surprise Sign-up Drawing: Our generous prize donor, StaTek, is also providing a "Door Prize" just for signing up - a Viewsonic 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor. Anyone can win, however, there are a couple stipulations. If you're a Team 32 member with a recent Folding history or previous Folding history, you will be shipped the monitor immediately after the drawing. The contest admin reserves the right to determine what is a "recent or previous Folding history" with Team 32. Other "visiting" Folders will be required to Fold then entire contest period with a similar PPD level as they produced before the monitor drawing, otherwise we will draw for the monitor again. The admin also reserves the right to determine what is a "similar level". Bottom line, if you come here to Fold for the contest, we want you here for the entire contest, simple as that. The drawing will take place no earlier than April 13th as it won't be available for shipping until that time.

- Winning Multiple Prizes: Participants can win either the Main or PPD Contest Prize but not both. If a participant wins the PPD Contest and is selected in the Main Contest drawing, they will have the option to select either prize. The prize not selected will either be redrawn for or be awarded to the next greatest PPD gainer depending on which prize was selected. Users may win the Sign-up Prize in addition to one of the prizes as stated above.


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Since this contest is based on point output there really isn't any need to cover the usual pleasantries I usually talk about with regards to Points per Work Unit, EUEs, and Server Blocking. Everyone is on the honor system unless I just see something really out of whack. The reason this contest format has been shifted to points output is due to the bonus points and bonus work units that have now become apart of the Folding landscape. It certainly wouldn't be fair for someone who runs their i7 on bigadv work for 2.5 or 3 days to only return one WU and receive one entry. The work is much more important to Stanford and that's why is it valued so highly. Likewise, this contest and Team 32 in general value that work highly as well, and we want to encourage people to run bonus work units. Pretty simple I think.


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Admin

This contest will be administered by yours truly. Wow! How fast does a year go by anymore? This is the 3rd Annual "March Madness"... can you believe it? Ok, I'm behind... I don't have as much free time as I used to. ;) If you'd like to check out the results from our contests last year, please see the Folding Contest Directory thread, we had a lot of fun. :) I'd like to thank ozzlo for running some great contests last year and giving me a break. Thanks bro! You're welcome to take the reigns again at any time. :) I take the administration of this contest seriously and I hope all who participate are confident that the contest will administered fairly.

- Goals: The goals of this contest are to boost the production of current Team 32 members, recruit new members into our great Team and Project, and most importantly... play fair and have fun!

- Questions? - Please post in this thread.


 
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This is "March Madness"... not the Chimp Challenge. So yes, sign-up with your own Folding ID.

In "March Madness" you Fold for yourself and have the opportunity to win a prize. In the Chimp Challenge we all Fold together for the pride of our Team... so prizes other than kicking other Teams' AS5's. ;)
 
OK, we've got 9 so far... let's keep it rolling so we hit that magic 100 number. :)
 
Wait what?

There was a spammer, don't worry the mods took care of him!


I am afraid that I do not have any time to contribute anymore. I apologize for having my rig offline for several months and all the delays in the last drawing of the winter contest. I am not really sure where the heck that last month has gone or why it seems i've accomplished nothing for the last couple months.. There is a light at the end of the tunnel and hopefully I will get out of all this finical turmoil in a couple weeks. I promise to get those final winners announced as soon as I both have a chance and I remember about them. I am glad I was able to give you a chance to recharge your batteries H, I had a lot of fun running the last couple of contests but to be honest, they wiped me out... I have a lot of respect for everything you do for the team :salute: it's obviously much more than I can handle. This is why i've decided i'm not running any contests in the near future.
 
I am afraid that I do not have any time to contribute anymore. I apologize for having my rig offline for several months and all the delays in the last drawing of the winter contest. I am not really sure where the heck that last month has gone or why it seems i've accomplished nothing for the last couple months.. There is a light at the end of the tunnel and hopefully I will get out of all this finical turmoil in a couple weeks. I promise to get those final winners announced as soon as I both have a chance and I remember about them. I am glad I was able to give you a chance to recharge your batteries H, I had a lot of fun running the last couple of contests but to be honest, they wiped me out... I have a lot of respect for everything you do for the team :salute: it's obviously much more than I can handle. This is why i've decided i'm not running any contests in the near future.

Thanks again for putting on some fine shows ozzlo! I'm sure I speak for the entire Team when I say "Thank You"! :)

Just a note... I missed the section on Minimum Participants last night when I posted. We need a Minimum of 100 participants by the sign-up deadline to run this baby. I'll be editing in that content into the Top Post in this thread this afternoon. I thought I had already done that, so it must be sitting in my browser on my machine at home.
 
Very cool... I will fire up for T32 again for the month with the i7 and gtx 285 (or possibly gtx 470). Signing up now...
 
Is that a SLBEJ D0 or a SLBCH C0? What batch? Awesome prize regardless!

I'll have to confirm with StaTek... but I assume it's a D0. Once confirmed I'll make that distinction in the top post.

Also, just added the verbiage to the top post regarding Minimum Participants and what we'll do if the number is not met.
 
Great work harlam357 and StaTek32, I'll be in again this year. And to ozzlo you have done a great job and I hope things work out for you. You deserve a rest now to catch your breath and have a :beer:
 
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