Gridcoin wins 18th FORMULA BOINC sprint challenge (October 27-30, with PrimeGrid@home)

The 18th sprint challenge (from 20 total) by the FORMULA BOINC team will take place on:    

• 10/27/2017 05:00 (UTC)  - 10/30/2017 05:59 (UTC) 
•    with BOINC project PrimeGrid@home
• 25 BOINC teams joined this competition
• team Gridcoin got 1st place in the 17th challenge

So... all Gridcoin users just need to crunch the WUs of project PrimeGrid... nothing more needed to help.

You will find updated analysis/news when this sprint challenge starts in this posting:            

• 2h before challenge start: 34k WUs ready to send, 229k in progress
• 1.5h after the challenge started: Gridcoin is leading with 24% of all generated credits
• after 24h: Gridcoin leads with 20.8%, 2nd team (Czech National Team) has 14.4% of all generated credits
• Gridcoin wins with 109.455437 million credits (which is 19.5% of all credits)

The top teams in the yearly stats, before the 18th challenge begins, are:      

• 1 Gridcoin (1108 points)
• 2 SETI.USA (727  = 65.6% of team Gridcoin)
• 3 Czech National Team (664 points)

There are over 70 teams listed in the FORMULA BOINC, in 3 divisions.

Point distribution in sprint challenge:  

• 1st placed team in sprint challenge gets 25 Formula BOINC points
• 2nd = 18 FB points
• 3rd = 15 FB points
• ...
• 10th = 1 FB point

Other team challenges:

• October 2017

Erkan (find me on IRC and twitter)