team Gridcoin wins the 12th FORMULA BOINC sprint challenge (3-day-long: Aug 24-27, MilkyWay@home) -> we're leading the yearly stats with great distance already

The 12th sprint challenge (from 20 total) by the FORMULA BOINC team has started:

• 08/24/2017 22:00 (UTC)  - 08/27/2017 21:59 (UTC)
• with MilkyWay@home, WU status
• 25 teams joined

So, all Gridcoin users just need to crunch the WUs of the to-be-announced project, nothing more needed to help. 

You will find updated analysis/news when this sprint challenge starts in this posting:  

• 13h before challenge start: 3886 WUs available, ca. 384k sent out to BOINC clients
• after 1.5h: team Gridcoin leads, and has generated 49.1% of all credits
• after 16h: Gridcoin is still leading with 49%
• 11h before challenge ends: Gridcoin still leading with 46.1%
• the challenge has ended and we won with 46% :-)

The top teams in the yearly stats, before this 12th sprint started were:  

• 1 Gridcoin (1012 points)
• 2 SETI.USA (620  = 61.3% of team Gridcoin)
• 3 Czech National Team (602 points)

There are over 70 teams listed in the FORMULA BOINC, in 3 divisions.

Point distribution in sprint challenge:  

• 1st placed team in sprint challenge gets 25 Formula BOINC points
• 2nd = 18 FB points
• 3rd = 15 FB points
• ...
• 10th = 1 FB point

other team challenges:  

• in August are available here,
• and for September look here.