I'm reserving my vote for a few days from now when things have calmed down, but I wonder if the poll should be whether should we be involved as a team in FB at all.
I might feel differently if people from some other teams were to acknowledge what happened and try to make meaningful changes to ensure it doesn't happen moving forward, but that hasn't happened at all. As long as the main teams we're competing against are okay with the type of stuff that happened then I have no interest in competing with them in anything.
I've justified it in my mind for awhile that some of the unethical behavior(cheating, essentially) we've observed(such as Scole creating a ton of fake high core instances on Wanless and letting all the tasks expire over and over so nobody else's tasks would validate to the point of being temp banned from the project) was not known by everybody on those teams. My thought process being "well, maybe _____ is shady, and _____ definitely cheated in ______, but _______ posts on our forum sometimes and seems like they're just trying to have fun and compete", but it's clear based on nobody speaking up against the clear and obvious cheating by Megacruncher that nobody on those teams are interested in a fair competition. If they are, they are not willing to go against their team to speak up for what is right, which is still unacceptable.
Even something as simple as Megacruncher coming out yesterday and saying something like "you know what, I bunkered ahead of time, I really didn't want to get up ass early the morning of the sprint announcement, I didn't think it would be a huge deal to do it the couple days before but obviously I messed up" would have went a long way to calm everything down. But that is not what happened, they're adamant that he was just "marathoning" ODLK 2 days before the sprint announcement despite knowing it was the sprint project and barely turning any tasks in and bunkering 57 instances. He is nowhere to be found, he resigned and everybody is adamant it's because he's so honorable. There has been zero acknowledgement of fault from anybody on any of those teams, and they're doubling down on what any reasonable person would agree is totally against the spirit o the FB committee.
Ultimately this type of stuff is what has driven people away from the FB competition and makes it difficult to get new users to stick with BOINC competitions. I have been on multiple forums today where people are having the same polls or discussing what we are as far as if they should even bother any more. It's a real shame too because the first sprint had a ton of participation and was close until the end - it really was a very fun sprint. Then this happens, and nobody from XS or TSBT has acknowledged it's wrong, and acts like we're complete idiots for bringing it up.