We are now 72839 points ahead, just four more days to go!!!

Were going out for the kill now.

Canada 13,210,967
Dutch Power Cows 13,138,128

Great job, you guys. We both score way higher than before the challenge and even in the middle of the challenge, so stirring each other up is proving very beneficial for WCG (and that is of course what matters the most in the end).

But we have still some hope: yesterday/the day before yesterday several extra machines were moved from other projects to WCG that still have to get their first results passed validation. Hopefully they kick in in time before the end of the challenge to make it at least a close finish.

Looks like we have to turn it up another notch!
I just looked and we hit 20 Mil on WCG!!! (BOINC points)

We are up by 100484 points, with 3 days to go!!

Hey we just lost the lead, we are now down by 7717 points!!!

Our reinforcements have finally arrived for a last minute offensive.

Time to go undercover!!

I don't know about the rest of you, but I have a lot of wu's going into pending status since yesterday. Hopefully the chunk of them get validated before the deadline.

Its a Cowspiracy i say

Same thing here.

I've got a little over 6,000 BOINC credits pending at the moment myself...

I'm keeping my fingers crossed hoping we can pull out a win since so many of you pulled out all the stops to increase work being down at WCG!

Due to a request to join the 12 Days of Xmas challenges I have done so. Any work not completed on time for the Christmas Race will count in the 12 Days challenges(points, runtime and results).

Have a Merry Christmas all!!! :D

Glad to be able to help Ripcat.

Thanks Ripcat! We're up for another challenge.

Ok 1 day left!! We're down by 46986 points !!
Everyone keep hitting the update when your computer finishes some work, in hopes of getting validation in time for the finish. It's not that bad, we can still win this.

I've just recieved access to another computer. She's only a Sempron 3200+, but hey, everything helps eh?

A BIG Thank You to all those who crunched so hard in the Christmas Race. We pushed a tough team (DPC) reallly hard and I think we came togrther as a real team.

Congratulations on the great effort and thanks to Grizz for posting the results each day.

We now have the 12 Days of Xmas Challange to keep us rolling into the new year at WCG. I understand any pending points will count towards this challange.

Merry Christmas to All,

Bill

Final Results:

1 Dutch Power Cows 16,549,567
2 Canada 16,345,827
3 Rechenkraft.net 12,684,111

Congratulations to DPC and Rechenkraft.net !!! A very close race right until the end!! I don't think anyone knew for sure, until the final moment, what the outcome would be. DPC ..... wait till next time!!

And congratulations to our team for putting forth such a fine effort in our FIRST Big Race!

Good job team, better luck next time. And a big thank you to DPC for making this race alot more fun!

We are up by about 36 million points in the Canadian Communities challenge: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... engeId=222

We are starting 3 new challenges, each ends on Jan 5 2008:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... engeId=524
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... engeId=525
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/ ... engeId=526

Lets win these ones.

Also big thanks to you for making a very challenging race. We had to get cows from all other projects to beat you.

And very happy holidays of course!

It looks like we have won the Canadian Communities challenge, we have more than 3 times the score of the second place team.

It also looks like we have 2nd in the other challenges, SETI.USA has first. It would be tough to beat a team from a country that has 10 times our population!

For people interested, it is time to start preparing for the nest POTM, Einstein.

Optional, stay on WCG until the 3 challenges are finished on the 5th then go to Einstein.

Hope you all had a great Christmas and have a happy new year!