So first off I would like to apologise for the delay on this one. As many of you know life is challenging for me at the moment but hey we got there eventually. I thank you all for your continued understanding. I'm sure it gets worse every year! 

 

Here we are at the end of our fifth event, A massive thank you to our six event fanatics, who have been the first to claim the five year badge for these events. @RollinLower @GOTSpectrum @sazrocks @TVwazhere @Dissitesuxba11s and @Spotty are the six people on the forum that should have the five year badges. Well done to us all and thank you for showing up year after year. We salute you. 

 

I think it is fair to saw that the legend of Den-Fi continues to be one known well by most of the team, but for the first time since his leaving of the forum we have seen someone out compete him. And not only one person but we have seen multiple people break the previous record of 2.3 billion points. As is the ever march of technology, it was only a matter of time, but to see it broken, on such a scale goes to show just how far technology, and the team has come in only a couple of years. 

 

I would like to thank those who helped with the event this year, we have the usual thanks to @leadeater who continues to maintain and manage the script that is privital for the smooth running on these events. @cbigfoot does a lot of the leg work, validating point totals, inputting them to the spreadsheet and generally doing all the small odd jobs that are needed to be done. 

 

Please can all make sure we donate a few dollars to Jason over at EOC, his servers must have taken a beating with all the traffic we have thrown at the guy over the last month or so. You can either use this PayPal link or find the PayPal donation button on the EOC Website on the left. Don't forget to include a note thanking him so he knows its from team LTT.  My personal go to is, 'From LTT with love' but you are free to write your own. 

 

List of the honoured dead

 

It is a sad time when we see the demise of our hardware, even more sad when that hardware holding out a few more days or weeks would have secured a better position. 

 

Lavender's Asus rog platinum matrix r9 280

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Slave's 1000w Cougar CMX

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LAR's router 12v power supply

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GuardianAngel's RIP EVGA 550w G3

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Calador's Enermax case exhaust fan

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RollinLower's RIP my good old EVGA SUPERNOVA 1000 G3

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TV's Corsair CX550M

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Shlouski's Red devil 6700 xt

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Senzelian's Razer Blade 15 Advanced 2021

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BondiBlue's Dell Precision T3500

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Rest In Peace Valiant hardware, there is a special place in silicon heaven for you, lest we forget. 

 

Now, it is time to get to what we have all waited for, THE RANKS!

 

In first place we have @miker07 this was his fourth event participating and what else can we say other than wow. I really didn't see him taking the throne in the opening days of the event yet he fought hard and secured that lucrative gold spot. In many ways it looked like he was overperforming, then he would breeze through day after day showing us just what he could do when he stretched his legs. It is a well deserved victory taking the throne with 3,702,959,248 points. He will be celebrated as not only our king, but also the man who toppled the old record set by Den-Fi.

 

In second place we have @Shlouski who for a time looked like he may be able to take the throne himself but in the end it was not to be. He takes the rank of second with a still yet incredible 3,226,841,295 points. Despite this, despite him also beating the old record I am sorry to say that he is this years Failed King. After holding the throne for a time, finally being bested by miker who went on to take the throne for this event. 

 

In third place we have Mxyzptlk, Mxy (Mixie) did well this event taking the rank of third with 2,132,197,116 points. In the early part of the event it didn't seem like he would make it to a podium finish, still strong competition from other participants. But as the days went on he went from strength to strength to find himself taking the rank of third. He was less than 200 million points away from the old record set by Den-Fi, if I were him that would be a sore spot when I look back over this month. Last folding month he was fourth so it is good to see him managing to gain year on year. 

 

In fourth place we have Justaphf, this was his third year competing in a row and also his third overall, He takes the rank with 1,701,918,525 points. I think it still cannot be understated just how big of an achievement this pop total is. Gaining well over a billion points in five weeks is still an insane level of production and if it were me I would be very proud. 

 

Fifth place is taken by _Rlocke, who has been active in all but of our events to date. He is certainly a man I like to see in events as he can always cause an upset if he wants. I do have to ask though, where was his mind this year? Nonetheless he takes the rank with 1,632,051,123 points. 

 

6th place is taken by Igor_Sinelnikov with 1,493,089,912 points, it is only his second time participating in an event and it is nice to see him continuing to place so well, even if he was higher in the event at his peak. 

 

7th place is taken by gordonbb with 1,447,548,447 points. He missed out on his fanatic badge this event by missing out on last years folding month. He has been involved in every other folding event and has even helped with the running of some of them. 

 

8th place is taken by Ben_F with 1,360,690,324 points. He did give us a good run to watch, seeing him climb the ranks day after day to take this spot. 

 

9th place is taken by LAR_Systems with 1,039,370,656 points. The man with all the data being in this rank goes to show there is no replacement for displacement... wait... this isn't a drag race... huh who knew... 

 

10th place is taken by Alex_Atkin with 1,038,109,630 points. I think it is safe to say if the event ran for just a few more hours he would have taken the number nine spot in the event. 

 

For the first time ever we can see that all top ten people in the event have passed the one billion point barrier. What an achievement worthy of celebration. 

 

 

Make sure you take the time to check if you have won a prize by clicking the link below. 

 

Folding Month V Daily Stats

 

If you don't see your name on the sheet above you either did not sign up for this event or you did not meet the minimum requirements. All event badges have been handed out already without any intervention needed from you guys, PLEASE DO NOT message me or the team about event badges. These badges are handled internally by the mod team and have been done already. If you ain't got one, then you didn't qualify. 

 

The winners will have 7 days from the publication of this post to claim the prize, if the prize goes unclaimed it may be raffled again, if it is not then it will be added to the community pool for future events. In order to claim the Prize you will need to PM me here on the forum, with the subject;

 

'Give me my prize, oh fair captain!'

 

To claim an Amazon voucher you will need to produce some details such as email and the amazon region you use. If you use a currency different to USD we will give you the closest amount in your own currency. 

 

So once again I want to take some time to thank you all for folding during the event, It has really been a great event as always and I hope to see you again in the future. In the meantime if you are wanting to keep up to date with any future events you can follow me on the forum, or/and follow the folding community board. 

 

This is Spectrum signing off,

 

Happy Folding,

 

Spec.