Michael,

Why are you bored?... about 60K+ members envy your 15th place? and hell I would... I do not know your age or anything but I want to tell my grandchildren that their granddad helped to conquer dreathfull diseases like cancer, polio, etc etc etc into history ..... so please keep up to do the good work...
If you need some new exitement try the MOT team or any other team of your choice but please do not give up on the WCG.... please !!!

From below the sea level

Yes,

... and one of us (currently ranking 1540 and still moving steadily up) would be interested to know just what resources need to be committed to the project to stand a chance of moving into the top 20, or even the top 100, say. I wonder if Michael (or anyone else) is prepared to give us a hint?

I'm doing just that, but I've been wondering just how many machines I might need if I'm to stand a chance of catching up some of the big boys & girls. However, I've just noticed that it's possible to compare results from individual members on the stats pages so it seems I need to clear out another room and fill it with at least a dozen more machines!

David.

Michael,

This is not a competition. Its about cooperation and achieving something for the common good. If you are bored by these concepts and require something more to maintain your level of interest, then perhaps you need to seek out some other charitable activity which provides more prizes and glory.

"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense." -- Thomas Arnold Bennett

Karry
Calgary AB

[ But till then the organizers need to do more, get on cnn or something.]

We are trying to get into the media as much as possible. However, things that seem to attract media are huge milestones, spectacular results, controversy, etc.. look at what celebrities do. Such media spurts make momentary spikes of interest which unfortunately often quickly die out. An very interesting article on this concept is at http://newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=5686

What often works better are grass roots efforts. If you go out and convince your neighbors, friends, relatives, and work mates that this is a worthy cause and actually help them join (install etc), in the end we get more overall progress. Especially if they in turn do the same. Other things that can help are if you put your own little news stories in club or local organization news letters, it becomes more personal and people may be more willing to get interested and help. The friendly team "wars" / contests often help as long as they do not offend. Perhaps two or more local teams can agree on some prize (of their own funding... like one does in a bet) if they win a points competition by some date or something.