I voted to remove the mandatory team requirement. In my opinion, benefits of removing it far outweigh disadvantages. Our team is no.1 for almost a year now, we are hitting diminishing returns on that and it's time to move on. If we don't recruit more BOINC users, other cryptos will.

DrugDiscovery@home is already planning to reward their crunchers with Ethereum based tokens, check this thread here: http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/private/boinc_projects/2016-October/011862.html