It is with great pleasure that I can announce the winner of PALIT Folding Challenge 2008. This contest surprised me with great enthusiasm by fellow members, and I cannot say how happy I am to be in position to give something back. Without further adue, the winners of inaugural Folding Challenge are:
Francisc Kurko, Romania – PALIT GeForce GTX280 graphics card, signed by Jen-Hsun Huang
Winners of 3DMarkVantage retail licenses are:
Radu Neagu, Romania
Boris Romac, Croatia
Jonathan Worrel (Furious Fandango), United States of America
Ivan Faj, Croatia
Nikola Peruncic (McPingvin), Croatia
Chad Hudson (Dragoon1101), United States of America
Nenad Miodrag (nmiodrag), Croatia
Goran Gjura (spikeygoran), Croatia
Eyvind Niklasson, Sweden
Joza Habijan, Croatia
In the end, I wish to congratulate each and every one for competing in PALIT Folding Challenge 2008. I am pleasantly surprised at the effort placed by all members of this small team. Also, bear in mind that the new giveaway is already planned, and this time I will focus on giving as much prizes as possible, with several tweaks in the contest rules. Rest assured, everything that I do will be global, so no exclusions. Everybody is welcome in the group, and as the new site starts to grow, you can be sure there are plenty more surprises. For starters, we’ll make sure that we have a dedicated place for all folders on the site, in the form of site section and forum section.
All winners need to contact me at FoldingChallenge@gmail.com with their shipping address, so that I could organize shipping of prizes.
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- Jen-Hsun signed the board as soon as winner was known…
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- Futuremark provides retail licenses for 3DMarkVantage Advanced Edition
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- The Final Table… congratulations to all winners..
Nice, card Francisko … cong…..
By: Boris on December 15, 2008
at 12:07
Yaaaaaaaaay!
Congratulations to everyone! Especially Fransisc. A great folding challenge and a merry Christmas to all!
10th place isn’t bad on a home built computer, 1+ year old!
By: Eyvind on December 15, 2008
at 12:14
^ yeah boris tough luck, you were leading for a while
By: Eyvind on December 15, 2008
at 12:19
hey theo, can you sign the 3D Mark licences for us? that way they can have a simbolic meaning
i mean you were the one who organized this contest 
By: Radu_Neagu_RO on December 15, 2008
at 12:42
I think that the licenses go directly from California so, they can not be signed by Theo … (more reasons to come in Croatia)
By: coguar on December 15, 2008
at 13:54
Gratz to the winners!
By: Darco on December 15, 2008
at 15:29
Well… I could do something with the licenses, it depends.. when US wakes up, I’ll talk with Oliver…
By: theovalich on December 15, 2008
at 15:53
Congratulations to everyone in team,we are all the winners
By: joza on December 15, 2008
at 19:45
So you submit anywhere?
Even Cambodia?
By: Eyvind Niklasson on December 16, 2008
at 10:48
please do that it would be great to have them as a memory even though we would run the benchmark after each overclocking session to score more points in the folding process
congratulations to all of the team members
By: Radu_Neagu_RO on December 16, 2008
at 23:14
Looking forward to sending out the licenses.
Cheers,
Oliver
Also known as Hillie O’ in the contest
By: Ollie on December 17, 2008
at 00:41
Actually Ollie, can you sign the licenses for the guys in the challenge?
I think it would be weird for me if I would sign them, but I think that a signature from Futuremark’s president adds memorabilia value to the copies
By: Theo Valich on December 17, 2008
at 00:48
I’ll be glad to. Just send me the addresses.
Ollie
By: Ollie on December 17, 2008
at 23:35
Boris: thanks, it was a nice contest, I had tough night sometime, keeping stable some cards
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Keep up the fight against diseases and see you and Radu and all the rest of the folding tram around, for other cool stuffs
Theo, once again, keep writing about good, nice things!
By: Francisc on December 23, 2008
at 14:38
Hello there. How’s it going Theo? R u ok? What is happening with the licences?
sorry had to ask. i’m proud to have folded with your team in this competition. What are you preparing for us in the nearby future regarding the Folding subject?
By: Radu_Neagu_RO on January 24, 2009
at 13:15
Hi Radu,
well, Futuremark sent out all of the licenses by snail mail, and it happened that one of winners did not receive it… probably due to overload of the post office for Xmas… if you didn’t receive it, oyu should have pinged me earlier, and we would work on it.
Sorry for this mishap, pinged Futuremark about your case as well. Same goes for all… I can’t personally check if somebody received his prize or not.
when it comes to future of Folding@Home on our site, the whole team is now dedicated in bringing BSN site to life, and distributed computing will play a great role on the site.
I plan for a community gathering in Croatia coming this summer, probably looking in late June/early July (so that everyone that wants – can come), and yes, there will be future giveaways that will be more user-friendly.
By: theovalich on January 24, 2009
at 13:37
P.S. As of next week, I am going to bring some folding computers to the frame… I’ve been plagued by hard drive and PSU failures – two 4870X2, one Antec and three Seagate Barracudas (250GB ones, not the latest batch) died…
All in different locations, so I wasn’t able to find the common denominator.
By: theovalich on January 24, 2009
at 13:39
Well i did not received…so this means that…mine is not coming?…:( can’t we do something about it? please?…
By: silvertuxx on February 1, 2009
at 19:06
Bloody hell… ok, anyone who did not receive his/her copy of 3DMark Vantage signed by Oliver Baltuch should contact me immediately.
Retail boxes were sent out on December 27th, and some people did receive, some didn’t.
Ping me at theo.valich@gmail.com and we’ll sort it out asap.
By: theovalich on February 1, 2009
at 19:24