I've posted a separate thread sharing this news with the entire WCG community at MyOnlineTeam passes 50,000,000 points in 2007!

I want to add my personal thanks to everyone for the effort you've made this year....so far (since it's not finished yet )!! I can remember back when I first mentioned this goal. I honestly don't know what was behind the idea at the time. I know our output was on the decline and we got as low as 80,000-90,000 points a day as a team. I think we can say that we've grown back to a point where we double that and more on any given day. Another point to note is that while there were 144 members contributing to this accomplishment, about half of that was the best we had on any one day during the year. That makes everyone contribution even more important!

While we're not done yet with 2007, it is time to start looking ahead to 2008. We will face new challenges but we did that this year just fine. I think one of the biggest will be the end of the UD agent here. WCG has always been positioned as a load and forget commitment to its members. Many folks across all of WCG out there don't realize they still have it running. With the end of the UD agent, we will see a sizable drop in the number of members we have returning a result each day. That will have an impact on our combined output as well. We can expect to see a drop off about five months or so from now as summertime hits here "up above". A stronger presence "down under" ( that includes South America, Africa and more too, not just OZ ) would help offset that. We have folks taking extended vacations then, folks out of colleges and universities, and others who seek to avoid having their homes self-combust from the combined heat output of all their crunchers! Recruiting is going to be important in 2008.

I like Blizzie's suggestions about team challenges. Joining in some of the open challenges is good and we'll be doing more of that. Best though is one on one team challenges, ones where we go up against an evenly matched team so both of us have just as good as a chance at winning. Please pass along any candidate teams you know of. We'll be seeing progress with the website as well. I'm hoping to have the home page, or its shell, up next. There will not be much off of it that will work at first as there's a lot of "foundation" work to be done at first. How some things get done in the beginning will affect what we will and won't be able to do with it later too. It should at least provide an idea of what to expect down the road. I'm hoping to strongly leverage it for recruiting uses, greatly expand on the statistical reporting and provide improved recognition of each member's efforts. There may be a surprise or two as well. I really appreciate everyone's patience with this!

Great news.

That's a lot of crunching power. Do they all run WCG exclusively or do you have them doing other things too?