Free Spirits CTC Participation and Leaderboard

[K_Cat]

Thanks for fixing it, Rodger!!

Peggy

[ejtma]

I have only just got back into rowing and thought I would have a crack tomorrow is it too late to register for December or should I wait till jan?


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[Paul Victory]

I have only just got back into rowing and thought I would have a crack tomorrow is it too late to register for December or should I wait till jan?


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Welcome back Marc.

You can enter a time for the CTC at any stage during the month. Your team affiliation should still be there or you can use a new username if you've forgotten your password.

[Rodger]

Well, that was 2014.

First let’s round off this month’s challenge: 39 Free Spirits took part, one lady short of an eighth boat. We saw five new entries in this last month of the year, two of which are debuts (unless different names were used in the past): Emma Chetwynd-Jarvis and hornetfan. Welcome!
Three were members returning to the CTC board: Gerard Robinson (first since 2011!), Olaf E. and Dan Apps. Nice!

The leaderboard took its final shape: Liefcat (Erik) is the winner (again). Consistently strong through the whole year, missed boat 1 only once.

Ranked 2 through 9 are:
thornmaster (thanks for putting up a compelling fight for first spot!), Barbara H (best female), John Steventon (best lwt), SanderJRoosendaal, Paul Victory, Laura Fairbairn, Peter Weiß, alan wisniewski and haaico.

The Dry Paddle Award 2014 goes to Roger Burrell and Carol Lamb who both landed ashore three times. Well done nonetheless, or even more so! =D>

We had a total of 92 Free Spirits making an effort in the CTC this year.
Nine FS did all 13 of them: Liefcat, thornmaster, Barbara H, SanderJRoosendaal, Paul Victory, Peter Weiß, alan wisniewski, RGelissen and Andrew Stanway. =D>

As always, the full list is here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... MTWc#gid=4

The participation comparison over the years hasn’t changed much since I last posted it, but for the sake of completeness:


No big changes in the Club 50 either:


Finally, these Free Spirits went off the radar in 2014 after at least three consecutive years of service, in the order of their total number of CTC’s for FS :
Paul Gould, David Taylor, Alan Strang, Boris Bossi, SimonJ., Petr Oliva, RachelR, Trish Wright. Christine Wojcik, MrsJ, Claire Haynes, Laurence Casey, Lee_Winslow, John Reeves, Jonathan Ashmore, Morten Haugseng, San-J and Radek Zaruba.

Hope to see you all back in 2015!

[Paul Victory]

Roger, thank you for all the work you have put into setting up the spreadsheet and analysing the results. It certainly helped to motivate me to make sure I was in a floating boat each month.

My next challenge is to figure how I'm going to break into the top five!

[sander]

Well done to all. I certainly intend to do all CTCs of 2015. I wouldn't mind if a few of them were straight distance or time trials, though.

Happy rowing in 2015 to all. May you achieve all your erg goals.

[thornmaster]

Roger - thanks for all the work you put into this throught the year. It has helped greatly with my motivation during the year and completing all CTC's has been the only one of my targets completed for 2014. I enjoyed being in the lead for a short time until injury and a couple of bouts of man flu knocked me back for the last couple of months. Hopefully I will get back into shape enough to get back int boat 1 and keep Eric on his toes again this year.

[Stan]

I would like to add my thanks to Rodger for doing this as well

[Phil Lamb]

I would like to add my thanks to Rodger for doing this as well

Ditto. Well done Roger, stats are the oxygen of motivation, many thanks.

Phil

[Rodger]

A very good number of 46 Free Spirits took part in January. It’s our highest participation since January of last year, when 53 of us did the 5k. Now 5k, that's a popular challenge and ranking distance. But to get a good turnout on an interval challenge like this month, that's very encouraging. I think that with a straight 20 minutes in February, we should be able to fill 10 boats. Please don’t let January's higher participation be just down to new year resolutions. [-o<

I counted a surprising number of five full debuts: Michelle Housenga, Jill Underwood, Richard Underwood, Steve Selwood and Steve Ramsay. Great, and welcome!
There was also the welcome return of Felton Humble (first CTC since September 2008) and Jason Lewis (first since January 2009)! As always, please correct me if I’m wrong (e.g. if you have used a different name in earlier CTCs.)

I have started the new leaderboard: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... MTWc#gid=6
Hopefully it will provide some motivation again to those who can use it in 2015!

In the last couple of months the total number of boats on the CTC (all teams) has been increasing. February could easily see that number exceed 100, which would necessitate a rethink of our leaderboard scoring method. I say we tackle that when the need arrives. Still, suggestions are welcome.

Finally, if there is a one-day challenge on 14 February, as there has been since 2008 (except in 2012), I'm thinking of excluding that from the leaderboard scores. Last year we used half scores (50 points for participation plus a maximum of 50 for boat ranking), but there is an element of unfairness in using scores from a challenge with a one day restriction. What do you think?

[JonT]

My debut too Rodger so an even more surprising 6

[Rodger]

My debut too Rodger so an even more surprising 6

I can't believe I missed that.

[sander]

Any news on whether there will be a special CTC on Valentine's day?

[Rodger]

I haven't read anything about it, not on the iss website and not on Facebook. Last year it was announced late January. That makes me suspect there won't be one this year.

[plummy]

I thought there was a basic C2 challenge to row 14k on Feb 14th. There is always a 1 day Carol McNally memorial CTC row around then (I know as it was the only one I missed last year)

[Paul Victory]

I thought there was a basic C2 challenge to row 14k on Feb 14th. There is always a 1 day Carol McNally memorial CTC row around then (I know as it was the only one I missed last year)

The basic C2 challenge is to row at least 14k between 9 February and 14 February. As far as I know, this challenge is still in place this year. The Carol McNally challenge is to row exactly 1402m on 14th February. I don't know the status of this challenge, but I guess we'll find out if we log onto the CTC site on 14th February.

Paul V

[redshell]

Rodger

Thanks for the work you've put into these spreadsheets

I love a good stat!

Cheers

[strider77]

Great job as always Rodger thank you

[Paul Victory]

Any news on whether there will be a special CTC on Valentine's day?

There's nothing about it on the CTC thread on the UK forum. I've posted a question on the thread and I'll let you know the response.

Paul V

[K_Cat]

There's a FB group for it now, put up by Paul Buchanan. "The 2014 Carole McNally Memorial." I'm guessing he sent notifications to anybody in the CTC or C2 Logbook groups.

Peggy

[Rodger]

There's a FB group for it now, put up by Paul Buchanan. "The 2014 Carole McNally Memorial." I'm guessing he sent notifications to anybody in the CTC or C2 Logbook groups.

Peggy

In that case I repeat my earlier question:

Finally, if there is a one-day challenge on 14 February, as there has been since 2008 (except in 2012), I'm thinking of excluding that from the leaderboard scores. Last year we used half scores (50 points for participation plus a maximum of 50 for boat ranking), but there is an element of unfairness in using scores from a challenge with a one day restriction. What do you think?

[K_Cat]

I'm going to row it, but whichever way you decide is fine with me...

Peggy

[Paul Victory]

It was me who prompted the Facebook exchange by posting on the ISS forum. I've sent a PM to Dougie Lawson who organises the CTC and I presume he will set up up for Saturday,

Rodger, having put so much effort into making sure it happens, I think it should count towards the year long totals on the same basis as before.

Paul V

[sander]

I will row a 1402m on Saturday whatever the verdict.

[dr3do]

In that case I repeat my earlier question:

Finally, if there is a one-day challenge on 14 February, as there has been since 2008 (except in 2012), I'm thinking of excluding that from the leaderboard scores. Last year we used half scores (50 points for participation plus a maximum of 50 for boat ranking), but there is an element of unfairness in using scores from a challenge with a one day restriction. What do you think?

Whichever way you decide, I'm fine with.