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For 2013, it has been recommended that the race begin in April - with a tentative start date of April 20th.

We'd like to get the team captain(s) of racing teams, into the captain's forum as soon as you can, to discuss all the issues and suggestions for this year. This is a handicap race, but the scoring criteria change from year to year. Small and medium sized teams have won the last two CC's.

If you'd like to contact me, I'm at Overclockers.com:

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/

To the team and Captains please understand we thank you for folding for Cures and your wonderful tribute last year to your fallen comrade

we welcome discussion and inquiries from you about participation and inclusion into this years chimp challenge

to bring you up to speed

Captains (so far - that have confirmed to us)

EVGA: Xavier Zepherious(XZ) and Devdog51
OCF: ADAK
HWC: CHRISK
OCN: businesswithgreg(BWG)


points that have been proposed

OCN: drop the chimp names - fold under your current names
OCF proposed date last week or two of April

either a straight point race or just points & growth (id even consider both)


either way if your in or out we'd like to know
and if you could help in bringing back[H] to the challenge we appreciate

Blah!!! two topics the same
to the mods please join the two threads

NONE SHALL PASS!

I obviously can't speak for everyone but we could use a good CC to revitalize some of our folding. The problem is contacting the ones that don't visit here anymore (like how I was until recently). This board used to be the means of gathering the troops. . .

So troops. Do we fall in line and fight the good fight or do we stay home and watch the battle on the news?

Done.

Full_Taoer Is the last 11108 team captain we had...It's open ?

Adak, have missed you for a few years, but some of the original CC folks still remember how to fling.

Remember that Kingfish is the CC godfather, and I think picked Cinco De Mayo so he could fold and drink tequila at the same time.

Whoa is that really you?

No, and quit looking in the cage

WHAO.


You deleted the cage years ago. lol

I am laughing though. First commercialize the event, then change the date. Next will be the name.

There is no more Chimp Challange. Hasn't been for a year now.

Actually the cage grew legs and walked away. I never got a response from them when I asked for the DB at the very least after then discontinued the service.

Ive pondered reconstructing it but don't see the activity to make it worth it . . . Yet

Fond memories of days gone by.

Cooler weather was the reason for the change. The tequila is still excellent - Lent is over!

Nothing IN the race is commercialized - but some teams have corporate sponsors, of course (like EVGA). What they do will probably always be commercial, since they're a commercial entity. I'm not a huge fan of their commercialization of folding, but I have to admit they have raised a strong team, and folded a boatload of wu's. I loved beating the bijesus out of them in the last CC!

We're trying to add more teams to the race, and settle on a handicap formula everyone likes - maybe have some brackets for it also - one for most raw points - the biggest teams really like this, and one for a handicap based race. Teams could race in either or both brackets, possibly (not decided yet).

This year, we're trying the CC with something entirely new - you race as a team. You don't need to change your folding handle and passkey. I didn't like this at first, but over the years, I warmed up to it. It's great for people with a lot of boxes, and non-local boxes.

The original CC format was great for a race between fairly equal teams or sub-teams, but when you have several teams with wildly different sizes, (EVGA and Tech Power Up for instance), we thought it best to adapt the format.

For your team Capt
http://www.overclock.net/t/1349392/2013 ... t_19370076

OCN's new Chimp Challenge captain checking in.

How'd ya'll manage to fuck my shit up so bad the past couple of years? Oh, and we even lost? wtf?

Cinco de mayo was tradition...why mess with tradition...and i like the tequila backdrop thank you very much

hell thats easy, when the cats away the mice will play.

If your in
Get your capts to sign into new capts forum

http://www.overclock.net/t/1349392/2013 ... t_19370076

votes to be held on date this week
vote on formula/format by 18th

please offer suggestions

proposal to drop chimp names is on the table
meaning you fold under your own name and we use team stats

I believe it is safe to say there is little to no interest amongst our team in participating. The Chimp Challenge, for this team, was friendly competition between two teams who were fairly evenly matched in points production. It was about bragging rights over sub-groups of each of the teams claiming to be the original "monkeys." The format and execution was simple: fold as hard as you can, drink margaritas, and first Chimp to the predetermined number of points won. A side benefit was that it coaxed some extra production out of the teams, folding on machines that didn't normally fold and recruiting friends and family.

A significant percentage of our active folders were here for the first Challenges. What the Challenge has become bears little resemblance to the early years of the competition for those who were here to witness it. The F@H program has changed, with quick return bonuses, GPU folding, BIGADV WUs, etc. The folding landscape has evolved and the CC, especially with the addition of teams whose production varies wildly, has had to change, too. However, a vocal majority of the constituency here is not in favor of many of the changes that have happened in previous years.

At the risk of sounding snarky, I'll throw this out there because I know it will be said here eventually: If one of the proposals is to drop the Chimp names (one of the last remaining traditions of the Challenge), why even call it the Chimp Challenge? At least that and the Cinco de Mayo start date were upheld in previous years. With both of those being thrown out, there is nothing about this race that is "Chimp" anymore.