ended Extreme Team Folding Goes Live on August 1st (Formerly The Team Competition)

[BWG]

 

 

For many years, The Overclock.net Team Competition was the main event for serious and competitive folders who wanted to test their overclocking and folding skills. At one point, the event had over 100 folders on over 20 teams all folding close to 24/7. It was a staple event that ran all year, every day, and every month. It used to be an event dominated by who spent the most money, or who had the top PPD cards folding in a Category, but that's a thing of the past! You can be competitive with ANY ELIGIBLE HARDWARE IN THIS EVENT! In our test runs, a GTX 960 dominated the overall event, and not to brag, but it was mine! (Yes, I rigged this event for me to win - NOT!) The old event fell apart for various reasons, and we've picked up the pieces, started a new stats website from scratch, came up with some new rules for the event, and after a ton of work, the event will officially launch on August 1st! 

 

A special thanks to:

Spoiler

@ENTERPRISE(The Big Kahuna! and he's to blame for the handicapping of the event if you don't like it)  @axipher (Stats Hosting and Config - probably some current and future delays cuz Canada) @zodac(re-wrote the database for the stats and actually ran TC before me back in nam) @1337lutz(seeing if we could use the old site which was semi-functional after he fixed some things) @firedfly(wisdom to fix stats when they broke during testing) @iamjanco (He's done nothing yet, but is going to make the stats site look pretty and DARK!)

 

Now is the time to get your hardware ready, get your teams formed, find your teammates to join your team, and get in on this competitive folding fun! 

 

Teams need to be setup and in the stats tracking system by July 31st to have the best shot at being competitive in this event. The event rules and details can be found in The ETF Manual. Be sure to read this manual carefully and follow the event rules so you do not penalize your team. Also, the event has it's own section on the forum found here which houses the manual and team threads.

 

For the first month, we're going to be giving away some special prizes to the winning team, category winners, and a few randomly drawn prizes for participants. 

 

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Sponsored Prizing

 

A HUGE thanks goes out to our sponsors for backing this competition with some fantastic prizing.

 

 

Corsair

• K65 RGB MINI 60% Mechanical Gaming Keyboard -CHERRY MX SPEED 
• VOID RGB ELITE Wireless Premium Gaming Headset with 7.1 Surround Sound - Carbon
• DARK CORE RGB PRO Wireless Gaming Mouse
• MM350 PRO Premium Spill-Proof Cloth Gaming Mouse Pad – Extended XL - Black

 

Cooler Master 

• Caliber R1S Camo

 

InWin

• InWin Alice Case
• SR24 AIO

TeamGroup

• XTREEM ARGB 3600 2x8GB white
• DELTA MAT white 1TB SSD

 

Silverstone 

• SUGO 14 Mini-ITX cube
• DA850 Gold 80 PLUS Gold 850W fully modular ATX power supply

 

Spotswood
(Will be awarded to Category Winner)

• ATX Open-frame Tech Tray or EATX Open-frame Tray- Winner choice (Free shipping US, shipping covered by winner for other locations)

 

 

Further Prizing 
(to be expanded upon and updated - PM me with donations)

 

All Participants:

• @BWG$25 PayPal

 

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Signup & Eligibility

 

In order to take part you must adhere to the below:

 

• To take part in this competition, please complete this FORM. 
• Please also duplicate your signup on this FORM as well so BWG can access only the information needed to get in touch with you to add you to the event. (I didn't want access to your private info)
  We will use this form to also collect shipping details with so we can get winners details to sponsors as soon as possible. So please be sure to enter in a shipping address where you can accept the package.
  By filling out the form you are accepting the sites Terms & Conditions alongside all Rules/Important notes as details at the bottom of this post.
• You must be participating in the event and folding on August 1.
• You must fold all month, but special consideration of up to 1 day less (30 of 31 days) will be given for those who have downtime due to hardware issues.
• You must sign up to ExtremeHW

 

 

Rules/Important Notes

 

• Each entrant is only eligible to win one prize. 
• ExtremeHW & Sponsor companies cannot be held responsible for prizes shipped that are not received/collected by the winners.
• ExtremeHW & Sponsor companies cannot be held responsible for inaccurate or incorrect shipping details provided by entrants.
• ExtremeHW & Sponsor companies cannot be held responsible for any tax or import duties incurred.
• All data collected via the sign up form will be destroyed within 90 days of competition end.
• ExtremeHW reserves the right to remove entrants from the competition should entrants break our sites Terms & Conditions.

 

All questions and concerns should be PM'd to @BWG Good luck everyone!

[BWG]

WINNERS

 

 

InWin Alice Case: @notyettoday 

InWin SR24 AIO: @damric 

 

TeamGroup XTREEM ARGB 3600 2x8GB white : @daddydoitall 

TeamGroup DELTA MAT white 1TB SSD: @firedfly

 

Corsair: K65 RGB MINI 60% Mechanical Gaming Keyboard @tictoc 

Corsair: VOID RGB ELITE Wireless Premium Gaming Headset with 7.1 Surround Sound — Carbon @axipher 

Corsair: DARK CORE RGB PRO Wireless Gaming Mouse @tenchimuyo93 

Corsair: MM350 PRO Premium Spill-Proof Cloth Gaming Mouse Pad – Extended XL, Black @BWG 

 

Cooler Master: Caliber R1S Camo @CharliesTheMan 

 

Silverstone: SUGO 14 Mini-ITX cube @Bastiaan_NL

Silverstone:  DA850 Gold 80 PLUS Gold 850W fully modular ATX power supply @pioneerisloud

[tictoc]

Just saw this post. Thanks to @ENTERPRISE @BWG @zodac @axipher and anyone else who helped to put this together.

[ENTERPRISE]

9 hours ago, tictoc said:

Just saw this post. Thanks to @ENTERPRISE @BWG @zodac @axipher and anyone else who helped to put this together.

 

Spread the word

[damric]

Wow there are more prizes than extreme team folders. This should be interesting 

[BWG]

I have added a 2nd sign-up sheet to the OP so only Enterprise can access your prizing info. My form will be used to reach out to you and add you to our points tracking.

 

We need more Team Captains so when I recruit folks, I can place them somewhere. If you're interested in becoming a Team Captain, please let me know.

[damric]

3 hours ago, BWG said:

I have added a 2nd sign-up sheet to the OP so only Enterprise can access your prizing info. My form will be used to reach out to you and add you to our points tracking.

 

We need more Team Captains so when I recruit folks, I can place them somewhere. If you're interested in becoming a Team Captain, please let me know.

One day perhaps I'd like to be a team captain. Not yet though. I feel like I'm still too new at folding and need to learn more.

[BWG]

2 minutes ago, damric said:

One day perhaps I'd like to be a team captain. Not yet though. I feel like I'm still too new at folding and need to learn more.

 

But, I thought those teamview sessions taught you everything you needed to manage 2 other folders  

[firedfly]

4 hours ago, damric said:

One day perhaps I'd like to be a team captain. Not yet though. I feel like I'm still too new at folding and need to learn more.

 

3 hours ago, BWG said:

 

But, I thought those teamview sessions taught you everything you needed to manage 2 other folders  

 

Sounds like @damric has learned enough to be a captain.  @BWG just volunteered to use team view for everyone on your team!!

[BWG]

1 hour ago, firedfly said:

 

 

Sounds like @damric has learned enough to be a captain.  @BWG just volunteered to use team view for everyone on your team!!

 

TeamViewer flagged my account as commercial again last week, but I got it reversed. I'll help all the noobs on TeamViewer.

[damric]

26 minutes ago, BWG said:

 

TeamViewer flagged my account as commercial again last week, but I got it reversed. I'll help all the noobs on TeamViewer.

 

My wife might be able to get you a key from her work for an upgraded version. We need you to be able to teamview! She will check Monday.

 

About starting a team, we would need 3 more folders, one to replace me on my team, and 2 more to join the new team. I might be able to convince one of my kids to fold on some other rinky-dink card and OC to the gills, if that sort of thing is allowed.

Edited July 9, 2021 by damric

[Avacado]

@firedfly is still in sub status for me, pending me getting toc's board running next weekend. Don't snatch him yet, I had the early dibs. 

[BWG]

Gosh, well my Mom, Wife, and 4 kids want teams too since we obviously have enough GPU's  

[BWG]

@axipher might win all of the prizes.

 

[Bastiaan_NL]

In with the 2080Ti

 

On 10/07/2021 at 01:47, BWG said:

Gosh, well my Mom, Wife, and 4 kids want teams too since we obviously have enough GPU's  

My 3 cats want to join too, ordering 2 960's for them in a moment and looking for a good AMD card

[ENTERPRISE]

14 hours ago, BWG said:

@axipher might win all of the prizes.

 

That is assuming they are filling out your form as well as the main one lol.

[axipher]

 

On 10/07/2021 at 20:58, BWG said:

@axipher might win all of the prizes.

 

 

 

On 11/07/2021 at 11:33, ENTERPRISE said:

That is assuming they are filling out your form as well as the main one lol.

 

 

If I win them all, I promise to donate most of them to future competitions

[BWG]

11 minutes ago, axipher said:

 

 

 

 

 

If I win them all, I promise to donate most of them to future competitions

 

3 now

 

[Ducrider]

Singed up and have 1 on the team already.Looking for another OCN folder to join.

[BWG]

8 hours ago, Ducrider said:

Singed up and have 1 on the team already.Looking for another OCN folder to join.

Thank you. 

Edited July 16, 2021 by BWG

[Avacado]

BWG, can you provide me with the multi/numbers for a Quadro K4000 and a GT710 both running windows? I have the K4000 fully restored and plan on trying the 710 on an AIO. Going to see which provides the best output. 

[BWG]

58 minutes ago, Avacado said:

BWG, can you provide me with the multi/numbers for a Quadro K4000 and a GT710 both running windows? I have the K4000 fully restored and plan on trying the 710 on an AIO. Going to see which provides the best output. 

 

We're going to switch everyone to the All OS Total for the first month, so it would be 87,898 and 34,252 which would be what you divide the 3090 total of 5,658,562 by. So, K4000 64.38x and GT710 165.20x.

[ENTERPRISE]

What happened to all the folders from the last competition! Weather doesn't help I suppose.

 

 

[BWG]

Well, I think folding on only 1 piece of hardware all month shouldn't be too terrible as far as heat goes for most, but some of the quick readers might think it's an all out event folding everything you have, and it's not. I did PM every active folder I could again today in a last ditch effort. 

 

In other news though, a 4th team called overclock.net is joining, and they only need 1 more folder. 

[firedfly]

23 minutes ago, BWG said:

Well, I think folding on only 1 piece of hardware all month shouldn't be too terrible as far as heat goes for most, but some of the quick readers might think it's an all out event folding everything you have, and it's not. I did PM every active folder I could again today in a last ditch effort. 

 

In other news though, a 4th team called overclock.net is joining, and they only need 1 more folder. 

 

I still need a team