Chimp Challenge 2012

Interesting question, but i'm pretty sure i can guess what the answer is going to be.

 

This is just me speaking.............NO WAY.

 

I would like to do it if every one could keep their cool. Unfortunately I think too many people have sworn it off to make it worth while. Then again i was folding for eggxpert when all the drama went down so I have no emotional scars. It's a shame seeing a team this [H]ard passing up a chance to rape face tho.

 

What's the CC?

 

I am out.

 

Pass

I have no need to see people monkey stomping eachother like I did a few years ago.

 

LOL!

 

it was cool at the beginning until team evga got involved and then shit hit the fan and CC became useless in my opinion. so now its who can cheat better then the other team without getting caught basically.

 

If [H]ardApe is out then I'm not doing it either.

 

Now that I think about it, I would mow Pocatello in the stats again if we did... hmmm....

 

Sounds like it was good I missed the drama.

 

Please don't call him a damn dirty ape, please.

 

/shakes fist at decrepit Statue of Liberty

/looks at the bright side - I'm an astronaut!

 

Hey guys,
I was thinking about making a thread inviting you, [H], to take look at an idea I have for points calculation for CC. According to that, participating teams' donors wouldn't have to change their folding IDs. I do not know what caused the problems within [H] regarding CC but I was thinking having to change folding ID's have something to do with it.
I originally posted it here (http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1398085&mpage=3) but I'll copy-paste below. I'd like to hear what you think about it, and if it would be something that would help you reconsider your participation in the CC.

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I have an idea for CC points calculation. This might take a bit long, so bare with me. 
1) There will be no ID changing to EVGApes, OCNChimpin, etc. The actual teams will be competing.
2) For team, say A, take its average PPD in the last 6 months, call it PPD_A.
3) Each team will "race" for, say, 30 days, and their actual PPD for this duration will be calculated, call this APPD_A.
4) At the end of the race, the CC points for Team A will be calculated as
CCP_A = (APPD_A / PPD_A)^3 * APPD_A. 
In plain English, the multiplier, (APPD_A / PPD_A)^3, measures how well the team did with respect to their average PPD and the more they overdo themselves, the greater the effect. 
Why cube? It is to strengthen this effect.
APPD_A is there to reflect the raw performance of the team.
In summary, for small teams, it would be easier to have much higher multipliers, although the raw performance may still be small. For large teams, it would be much difficult to get higher multipliers, although the raw PPD may look large.
Let's do an example.
Say team A has PPD_A = 5Mil, they did APPD_A = 10mil. Their CCP_A = (10/5)^3 * 10 = 80.
Say team B has PPD_B = 20Mil, and they did APPD_B = 28Mil. Then, CCP_B = (28/20)^3 * 28 = 76.832.
As you see, the small team wins.
 
I believe this calculation, or some modification of it, has a great chance of making CC a fair competition giving the winning opportunity to all teams. If possible, I ask someone to show this idea to the other CC captains, and even the teams who don't participate in the CC. 

 

But it all depends on the rules of the competition, right? At the time when [H] left, I think the rules were favoring Team EVGA but then last year, with new rules, Team EVGA had close to zero chances to win. Neither was fun. With last year's rules, none of the large teams (top three) would stand a chance.

The point is, we can brainstorm together to make it a "fair" competition. Above is my personal attempt

 

^This

 

You could change the rules to what ever you want.

Pass, no thank you.

 

We lost a lot of good people last time... I will not participate.

 

what happened that was so bad?

 

From what I have read here, a lot of cheating and poor sportsmanship.

 

That's pretty funny right there!

The CC seems to divide us..do not want.

 

No it turned into a witch hunt looking for people that weren't participating or dropped out before it was finished.

 

The CC made more sense when there was no bigadv (no synching possible)/switching WU types/passkey/huge team ppd gap... etc

How about "show pics of your farm" multi-forum competition edition?
...less trouble and could still get front page attention and bring new folders in.

 

Now that could be fun.

 

HardForum's views on CC are twofold. First off, we're put off from competitions because of other teams who "bend the rules" or go against the spirit of the competition to win a useless .jpg picture.

Secondly, the forums used to always devolve into a witch hunt and multiple callouts when people who wouldn't switch over to [H]ard|Ape would pass those who did switch over during the month of may. People would get pissy, send PM's, make new threads, turned into a whole bunch of shit throwing.

Basically, it's not worth it.

 

Hardware Canucks Forum

 

Sorry. Your linky no worky either. Must be a Kyle thing.

 

hardwarecanucks(dot)com is filtered

 

idea that haves been put out there on other forums for the race

 

As a Folder for one of the original teams, the contest was FUN. Now it isn't. Not much else to say about that. For the first time I will not be involved in it.

 

Same here.