Folding Competition: 1 Million in 1 Month
Folding milestone = win win
Published: 10:00, 08/09/2010 by Jas-n.
29Community, community, community, it’s all we ever talk about here at TSA, but that’s not a bad thing, just take a look at all the competitions we have going on for you lot. The only thing I notice about all our competitions though, is that in order to win the competition, you have to beat your opponents. This one is different though, in order to win one of two £20 PSN vouchers, you have to work as a team.
Every month in the folding update we tell you how many points we’ve accumulated as a team over the past month, in August we managed 814,000 points. Our goal however is to accumulate over 1 MILLION points over 1 month.
“But how do I win”
Winning is simple, just run folding at home as much as you can submitting work units which get you points, all members points are added together over the month and if we all contribute enough and reach 1 million points over a single month, we’ll choose two folders at random and award them with a £20 PSN voucher each.
Rules/Guidelines:
- Competition closes at the end of the first month where the team reaches 1 million points.
- A month is classed as the 1st to the last day of that month (28th, 30th or 31st depending on the month)
- To qualify for the prize a user must have completed (and uploaded) a Work Unit within the past 30 days (ending on the last day of the month).
- Each user that meets the above rule has the same chance of winning whether they have folded one work unit or 50.
- The two winners will be chosen at random by an independent party.
New user installation
If you are not currently a member of our folding@home team you can follow one of the guides below which will help you start folding for TSA.
Please note, if you want to fold on both PS3 and PC then please use the same user name on all machines you use.
PS3 Users
PS3 users can follow our simple guide to joining our team.
PC Users
PC users can join in too by following Stanford’s Guide to installing folding@home on your PC. When you see the following screen, fill in the details as shown, replacing {username} with your TSA username.
Happy folding, and remember if you need any help in regards to anything to do with folding@home send an email to folding(at)thesixthaxis.com.
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08/09/2010 at 10:03
Member since: Dec 2009
That’s a great comp to encourage some folding!
08/09/2010 at 10:15
Member since: Jul 2009
Completely agree. Top stuff, Jas-n/TSA. I might get my YLOD-repaired PS3 onto the case. It’s under YLOD-warranty after all. 8-)
08/09/2010 at 10:40
Member since: Jan 2010
Absolutely agree, I will definitely be folding.
08/09/2010 at 10:18
Member since: May 2009
Better get my PC name sorted then. Don’t know why I never joined TSA on my PC when it folds.
08/09/2010 at 10:22
Member since: Dec 2008
Great idea for a cooperatition! Nice one Jas-n. Gonna get some PC folding on the go!
08/09/2010 at 10:43
Member since: Aug 2009
Im folding right now!
08/09/2010 at 10:50
Member since: Aug 2008
I’m away on training next week, ill take an alienware with me and nuke their power ;p
08/09/2010 at 11:01
Member since: Sep 2009
Good idea, I’ve not done any folding in quite a while (since the site I used to fold for shut down) but I may just start it up again as a TSA member!
08/09/2010 at 11:30
Member since: Oct 2008
Istopped folding when the app became life. Think I’ll give it another go
08/09/2010 at 11:59
Member since: Oct 2008
FFS why does life still think I live closer to Madrid? Surely by now they could of sorted the default city to be your closest city.
08/09/2010 at 11:54
Member since: May 2010
if we did 687.000 in august with users out of the house on vacation (or, in my case, in the house but not folding due to omg-i’m-melting-turn-off-that-ps3 temperatures), i’m sure we’ll get to 1 million :)
08/09/2010 at 12:12
Member since: Apr 2010
I wonder if they’ll notice if I install on the sly at work >:)
08/09/2010 at 12:33
Member since: Aug 2008
don’t install it I have just the thing for those that want to fold on other peoples computers, folding@home portable…. let me find the link
08/09/2010 at 12:34
Member since: Aug 2008
http://folding.jas-n.com/downloads/Folding@home%20portable.zip
08/09/2010 at 16:45
Member since: Apr 2010
awesome, thanks! :D
08/09/2010 at 12:18
Member since: Nov 2008
got 2 ps3′s and my gaming rig folding :P. we should make short work of the 1 million points.