That's correct, having the badge quantity is enough, no matter what level... you can be proud to say you've been crunching at WCG from the early days and regularly.

The globe ranking is indiscriminate of what badge... 1 or 22, if you've put in 44 years, it's sapphire with the multiplicators for triple and X sapphire. If a new badge is added it requires 46 and on and on... an alternate incentive for the ranking driven crunchers to keep going at WCG, but could not be here at the beginning. :D

Crunch On

There's no fault. It's very much a stumble on knowing about Volunteer Distributed Computing.

90% of 22 to be guru but 21x2 to have sapphire globe is indeed the rule.

Indeed, it should be nearly impossible to get the crown of the Guru, when someone missed the early stages.

You need 90% of the badges plus Beta.

Currently we have 22 badges = 21 without Beta.
21- 10%= 19 needed

With new projects
22-10%=20 badges
23-10%=21 badges
...
26-10%= 23 badges (three projects can be missing)


So I don't have four badges= Guru, when I own 37 (!!!) badges =

36 badges -10% = 32,4 rounding 32 - yeah 90% reached plus Beta badge= 37 badges.

Sig looks awesome, SNURK. Could you please add me to your list? Much appreciated.