Don't worry jonnieb-uk. I am sure that we will get back into 90th place on points very soon. The slight drop in performance may simply be down to Thargors family visit, and I have had one of my i7s offline for the last week!

Thargor - I hope you enjoyed spending time with the family.

Following the unforseen loss of a place in the Points Rankings I have now reviewed current performance of each of the teams in the 10 places below us in each of the three categories. From this I draw the following conclusions

Runtime
We will drop one place imminently to BRASIL - BRAZIL@GRID
who have the bonus crunching contribution of 26 members of the Base Camp team.
https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/..._thread,17232_offset,1750

In the medium term (30 - 90 days) we will drop a further two places to HKU & Fundación Proacceso . The latter team is currently logging 4.5 Years per day so the current gap of 61 years will not remain for long.

In the long term (>90 days) there is a possible challenge from Kansas State University

Points
There is a medium term threat from HKU (est 45 days) and a long term threat from TeAm AnandTech

Results
No threats forseen at the present time. cave incautos

edited this as it was a bit negative, just dont understand the morals behind "base camp"......

Not good enough for their own team?

Jonnieb-uk is the politician I could never be :)

@ little mermaid I did notice your reply in The Air Force Team thread but didn't want to clutter their thread by replying there. It was not that I wanted to close this current UK team thread, I was exploring the possibility of amending the thread header by adding a Union Jack. Sadly it appears the the BB code [ **==] that produced is a one off.

I understood quite well that you just wanted to spruce up your team thread so that it stands out.
It cannot be done, I understand, with an "old" (don't ask how old, please) thread
- I remember Team Crunching@EVGA was able to fix a typo in their team thread subject
before it was too late. Several teams make new threads regularly - MOT is one,
so if you really wanted some ornamentation, I believe it would be the way to go
with your particular thread. But as Union Jack is not an option the subject may be old hat.

As to cluttering The Air Force Team thread, I don't think it can be done.
They would like others to speak, because they don't speak much themselves.
Only the US Marines and the US Navy speak less.

edited this as it was a bit negative, just dont understand the morals behind "base camp"......
Not good enough for their own team?

Wicksman, Base Camp was formed in 2004 as a "guest crunching" entity.
We are not a team in the traditional meaning of the word but a Motley crew which stay
in touch in our Base Camp Forum.
Our aim is to promote friendship and unity among teams and crunchers. We like if we can
facilitate building a team as we think we did with Team *The Survivors* thas went from
a one-man-show to a decent sized team with very dedicated crunchers because of an energetic,
hard-working and wise captain. As our Trek #37 we thought we would like
to promote and encourage interaction between a Brazilian team and
mainly Anglo-American speaking teams, exactly as johnnib-uk phrases it.
- and Base Camp has been lucky to attract many crunchers - some with outstanding
power which also can boost a host team's statistical standing considerably.
So far we have made 39 treks altogether with crews of different combinations.