Recently I was looking at the stats page Class of May 28, 2000 for the day I signed up with SETI,
and found that I had reached the exalted position of No 1!
The number 2 entry on the page (The Optimisers) wasn't that far behind me, so I emailed them
and asked if they fancied an extra challenge?
Gerry thought that this might be fun, so we worked out some rules and have a gauntlet which started at 8am Monday 13th May.
Their target is to try to overtake me, and mine is obviously to try to stay in front for the next 8 weeks.
I am starting with a bit of a lead, but Gerry fancies that I am there for the taking!
Incidentally we both now belong to Ars Technica Team Lamb Chop in case you hadn't noticed!
UPDATE - 15 June 2002: Sure enough The Optimizers have overtaken me, and will now be starting to build up a lead. We are going to continue counting up until the end of the original 8 week period, to see how far ahead they will get. Well done guys. When this started we were quite evenly matched, but the ramp-up has been impressive, although I originally thought I might have lasted just a bit longer.
FINAL UPDATE - 8th July 2002: The 8 weeks are over, and The Optimizers have won by a long head! Congratulations to them. It has been an interesting battle. I started out with a lead of 1240, and ended up losing by 740.
| UncleBeard | The Optimisers | |
| Starting Figure | 12294 | 11054 |
| WU's during Gauntlet | 2076 | 4056 |
| 8am, 14th May | +35 = 12329 | +139 = 11193 |
| 8am, 15th May | +42 = 12371 | +135 = 11328 |
| 8am, 17th May | +66 = 12437 | +108 = 11436 |
| 8am, 18th May | +34 = 12471 | +64 = 11500 |
| 8am, 19th May | +38 = 12509 | +9 = 11509 |
| 8am, 20th May | +30 = 12539 | +14 = 11523 |
| 8am, 21st May | +33 = 12572 | +157 = 11680 |
| 8am, 22nd May | +15 = 12587 | +85 = 11765 |
| 8am, 23rd May | +14 = 12601 | +4 = 11769 |
| 8am, 24th May | +77 = 12678 | +95 = 11864 |
| 8am, 25th May | +49 = 12727 | +69 = 11933 |
| 8am, 26th May | +35 = 12762 | +0 = 11933 |
| 8am, 27th May | +34 = 12796 | +124 = 12057 |
| 8am, 28th May | +34 = 12830 | +0 = 12057 |
| 8am, 29th May | +33 = 12863 | +41 = 12098 |
| 8am, 30th May | +39 = 12902 | +2 = 12100 |
| 8am, 31st May | +37 = 12939 | +0 = 12100 |
| 8am, 1st June | +33 = 12972 | +394 = 12494 |
| 8am, 2nd June | +36 = 13008 | +54 = 12548 |
| 8am, 3rd June | +36 = 13044 | +0 = 12548 |
| 8am, 4th June | +29 = 13073 | +211 = 12759 |
| 7am, 5th June | +37 = 13110 | +51 = 12810 |
| 8am, 6th June | +41 = 13151 | +60 = 12870 |
| 8am, 7th June | +52 = 13203 | +84 = 12954 |
| 8am, 8th June | +39 = 13242 | +80 = 13034 |
| 8am, 9th June | +41 = 13283 | +6 = 13040 |
| 8am, 10th June | +35 = 13318 | +218 = 13258 |
| 8am, 11th June | +39 = 13357 | +119 = 13377 |
| 7am, 12th June | +36 = 13393 | +10 = 13387 |
| 8am, 13th June | +40 = 13433 | +0 = 13387 |
| 8am, 14th June | +42 = 13475 | +1 = 13388 |
| 8am, 15th June | +40 = 13515 | +259 = 13647 |
| 8am, 16th June | +41 = 13556 | +30 = 13677 |
| 8am, 17th June | +40 = 13596 | +27 = 13704 |
| 8am, 18th June | +42 = 13638 | +126 = 13830 |
| 8am, 19th June | +40 = 13678 | +21 = 13851 |
| 7am, 20th June | +39 = 13717 | +144 = 13995 |
| 8am, 21st June | +40 = 13757 | +16 = 14011 |
| 8am, 22nd June | +37 = 13794 | +68 = 14079 |
| 8am, 23rd June | +40 = 13834 | +2 = 14081 |
| 8am, 24th June | +31 = 13865 | +55 = 14136 |
| 8am, 25th June | +37 = 13902 | +211 = 14347 |
| 8am, 26th June | +34 = 13936 | +8 = 14355 |
| 8am, 27th June | +34 = 13970 | +103 = 14458 |
| 6am, 28th June | +32 = 14002 | +41 = 14499 |
| 8am, 29th June | +34 = 14036 | +0 = 14499 |
| 8am, 30th June | +29 = 14065 | +0 = 14499 |
| 7am, 1st July | +41 = 14106 | +262 = 14761 |
| 8am, 2nd July | +34 = 14140 | +48 = 14809 |
| 8am, 3rd July | +34 = 14174 | +18 = 14827 |
| 8am, 4th July | +42 = 14216 | +181 = 15008 |
| 8am, 5th July | +38 = 14254 | +14 = 15022 |
| 8am, 6th July | +43 = 14297 | +17 = 15039 |
| 8am, 7th July | +34 = 14331 | +0 = 15039 |
| 8am, 8th July | +39 = 14370 | +71 = 15110 |
| Difference + or - |
-740 |
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