@ gordoma
I don't think that'll be an issue. Progress up the ranks of the UK team will slow, but I doubt there will be any significant downward movement. Only a new member with significant crunching power, or an exisiting member with a substantial increase in power, would cause a problem and then only 1 ranking place. For example Wicksman has just knocked me down 1 place to #46 in the UK team RT rankings and eventually Mike D Green will do the same (and to you). But other than that progress for both of us will continue to be up.

Thats 31 years for the Team

I was going to have a bash at my emerald badge for HFCC if there was enough time left after I hit Ruby for CfSW. I don't think it'll be enough time for me.

Also, there is some talk on the CfSW forum of there now being an estimated 11 weeks left - wondering whether to be happy with the Ruby and focus on my current bronzes or go for Emerald if that turns out to be true?

The UK team gets its nose in front of Poland and moves to #90 in the RT rankings! Now for Gillboskolorna #89 and Austin Grid Team #88. I'm in the process of revising the target predictions (see below) and will update later.

I've noticed in other threads that northern hemisphere crunchers throttle back crunching during the summer months partly because of overheating concerns and also holidays. This seems to be borne out by the Global WCG stats where total RT has dipped by at least 1,000 years in each of Jun Jul & Aug from the levels seen Feb - May! I need to adjust my target predictions to reflect this.

I know stroudwaterboy had temperature issues early summer and possibly genhos Anyone else on the team running below capacity?

Both my machines run at 90% to keep the heat a bit lower. This is just a general setting rather than anything specific for the summer. I've seen some people say they throttle back to about 70% in the hotter months, but so far I've been fine.

I've not overclocked but I realised that I need to keep my laptop lid open when I'm not using it to keep it cooler.