Once again Jonnieb, many thanks for the veritable cornucopia of team stats.

And congrats to you and everyone for their milestones.

The UK team, as predicted, passed Ars Technica in the Results rankings and moved to #73.
The next 5 targets in each division are:

	                                	Gap RT days		Rank	Days to Close		
	Runtime                         			        	Current	Nov-17	
	Team Norway                     	     2,112		83 	 20 	 55	 
	University of Texas at Dallas   	    16,093		80 	 52 	 80	
	America (USA)                   	    13,538		81 	 64 	107	
	IBM Web Innovators & Friends    	    19,988		78 	 98 	143	
	Hungary                         	    26,557		72 	129 		
							
	Points                          	Gap pts					
	Michigan Tech                   	15,034,362 		77 	  8 	 13	
	Finland                         	17,469,081 		76 	 15 	 16	
	Something Awful Goons           	22,155,104 		75 	 20 	 28	
	ek$i sozluk cpu power           	31,659,783 		74 	 23 	 47	 
	BRASIL                          	48,003,698 		72 	 34 	 49	
							
	Results                         	Gap res					
	BRASIL                          	     8,369		72 	  3 	 11	
	EMU--Computer Science           	    45,493		69 	 13 	 15	
	Kansas State University         	    79,657		67 	 24 	 24	
	Electronic Sports League (ESL)  	    66,991		68 	 25 		 
	Team Norway                     	    31,734		71 	 40 	 37	

Those targets expected to fall before year-end are in blue.
The slow progress in Points and Results between Nov 17 and Current is directly attributable to the lack of HCC GPU in mid November.

Note that the BRASIL team in our sights is a different entity to BRASIL - BRAZIL@GRID team who bounced us some months ago and who are now out of sight!

Congratulations to the following UK team members on achieving a personal milestone in yesterday's crunching:

Thargor 25 years RunTime
dweymes1994 90 days RunTime (lunchtime update)

At their present rates of crunching Thargor will overtake crooks_uk in mid 2015.

Congratulations also to the following UK team members on setting new PBs

	dmc_1970         	Runtime	          	Points	100,538 	Results		
	endellion        	Runtime	9:17:47:30	Points	 34,275 	Results	47 	
	Stuart F         	Runtime	3:10:12:38	Points	  9,557 	Results	12 	
	rose-in-bloom    	Runtime	          	Points	  2,893 	Results		
	datahelp         	Runtime	          	Points		        Results		
	dweymes1994      	Runtime	          	Points		        Results	21 	
	isandunk         	Runtime	          	Points		        Results	 6 	

UK team Comparison of Daily RunTime

	Yesterday's Production				0:303:05:43:00		
	Average RT per cd      		December		 301.4		
	                       		November		 280.9		
	7day Avg per cd        		        		 309.2		

We're on the up at the moment. Would be nice if we could continue the >300 RT per cd throughout the month.

If all goes well, we get to celebrate achieving a trio of targets for the UK team during December!

Milestone Targets for the UK team:

	       	Target	        Current	        To Do	    7day Avg.	  Estimate			
	RunTime	  800 years	  778 years	8,030 days	309.2 	  25 days	Dec-28	
	Points 	700,000,000 	690,021,962	 9,978,038  1,920,477	   5 days	Dec-08	
	Results	  1,500,000 	  1,494,765	     5,235 	3,466	   1 days	Dec-04	

On a more mundane subject I've been reviewing how I produce the team stats. There's a two part problem. a).Whilst my spreadsheets do the job, having developed them piecemeal, some of them duplicate WCG database queries, and there are some anomalies in the information produced. b). Probably 80% of my forum post are stat updates, but formatting posts with data tables and coloured highlights is both monotonous and time intensive.
Since I need to reformat the spreadsheets for the New Year I'm taking the opportunity to rationalise them and generally tidy things up.
There's a limit to what can be done to cut the time taken to format forum posts, given the antiquated nature of the forum software. However I've developed several proforma posts into which data can be cut & paste which is helping enormously.

Another very good day's crunching resulting in a top 3 performance!

	RunTime	 	
	Date        		
	15/10/2012	0:333:19:38:24	
	25/09/2012	0:332:23:45:08	
	03/12/2012	0:327:00:58:41	 
	Points	 	
	Date        		
	26/11/2012	2,007,536 	
	30/11/2012	1,985,084 	
	27/11/2012	1,970,596 	
	Results	 	
	Date        		
	26/10/2012	5,420 	
	25/10/2012	5,371 	
	29/10/2012	5,332 	

More details shortly.