the winds change to the next position at 5am and 5pm est. Expect big shifts then. Other than that, you are sailing in what you see. I made it up to 1,200th place this afternoon but have dropped back a little to 1,800th place once the breeze filled in to the south. A big righty is expected for tomorrow morning which isn't going to do me much good on the leaders.

I have the idea that the positions are measured in a straight line to Singapore and in no way represent your actual finishing place.
Last night I went from 70.000 to 13.000 just because I changed to a SE tack.
There is really no telling who will win this race.

I'm on the Just got kicked off and can't log back in . Every time I want to change cource it kicks me off.

I get the non responsive message a lot and just log off and back in or sometimes can get it to work by refreshing the screen. I have both gained, lost and regained 60,000-70,000 positons over the last couple of days. Set the autopilot two nights ago to find it off and me back 72,000 places. Gained all that and more back yesterday.

looks like something is majorly hosed. I was right next to Roxy earlier this afternoon. Since then, I've jumped out to a huge lead in front of the whole fleet. It appears I'm sailing normally but that the other boats have stayed still. What are you guys seeing?

It shows me 23 miles closer to the finish than the 1st place boat but has me in 2,546th place.

Something is scrwewy.

Not that I am in contention for anything...but there is a new Volvo car at stake here for the winner. They should be a little more refined than this.

On my site im 100 miles closer than on my wifes site.
Who knows.

1095 on mine 1176 on hers.

I'm more upset that the wind shift never happened. Now im 20 deg off cource that i was looking forward to

Its not limited to the Volvo game either, apparently the VendeeGlobe game has the same issues at the moment (they share the same platform).
They also mention there is some problem in their datacenter and it will take 2 weeks to get more capacity to handle the 100K players reloading
at the same time (Guess they didn't make the whole system very easy to scale up).

Uhhh...hasn't this been the theme of this race???

Or is it just me?

their scoring system is seriously effed... if it wasn't already, check this out.

Ok, you can view it easily if you use firefox, right click, "view image" or if you use IE, right click properties copy the image path and paste it into your navigation bar.

Jake is up today to 955!, nice work.
Anyone notice the AWA autopilot isnt working? Left it on overnight but lost a lot of places, the wind seemed updated though.

THe whole thing is falling to bits; I bet Volvo are well pissed about this.

Up to position 628 now (not feeling too bad about that in a fleet of 90,000!).

I had really hoped to make a jog north in the middle of last night sometime after the evening wind update. Then I would tack back at the morning shift that was supposed to see a lefty. When the whole thing went to pot and the wind wasn't updating, I didn't know what to do so I "held the course" and kept going south. I'm a little further south than I want to be - I was hoping to be able to tack for the gate with the left shift we're expecting at tonight's evening update - but I think I'm going to be too far south to wait that long and will have to eat a bad tack for several hours later today. You guys have good angle on me at the moment if I have to tack back in this stuff - I wish I was on your line!

If you look at the leader board at the top of the ranking sheet it has you as 1st.

no kidding? Where is that? I'm seeing me now in 496th place. The guys in the top 5 are way south and are really going to struggle to get back to me.

I wonder, though, how many people are right around me that I can't see. Hard to tell how close this really is.

Right after I posted I vwent back there and it had changed. I did see it and it was cool to see you at #1 Even if it was wrong.

I wish I had a screenshot of that! I'm in 359th place now and still climbing slowly. I now see the 1st and 4th place boats just in front of me and I'm gaining. However, it's going to take a miracle for me to hang on after the next tack tonight. The catsailor fleet to the north has a terrific line to the gate. I really wish I had taken that north hitch last night.

290th place (but I think my run up the leaderboard is about to end at around 200).

265!