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Scoring System
The team with the most victory points wins the IT Grand Prix! Victory points are earned by placing in each of the challenges, both on the ground and in the cloud:

1. First place team: 10 victory points
2. Second place team: 7 victory points
3. Third place team: 5 victory points
4. Fourth place team: 2 victory points

With 4 ground team challenges and 6 pit crew challenges, the maximum number of victory points a team can earn is 100 points.

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Virtual Pit Crew Challenges - Start Today!
The Gold team won the ITGP, but another $5000 is up for grabs for the three remaining teams.  Simply participate in the challenges until the end of TechEd, June 10, 2010.  The competition will only run until 5pm PDT Thursday, June 10.

Challenge: Take a certification exam

Criteria: The team with the most MCP exams taken by their pit crew during TechEd June 7-10, 2010 wins the challenge.  Exams taken at TechEd count - email erwinc@microsoft.com with the following information to have it count: Name, Live ID (email address), team, exam taken, date and time taken.

Action: Register with Prometric and take your exam by June 10, 2010 or email erwinc@microsoft.com if you took it at TechEd.

Challenge: Participate in Born to Learn Discussion Forums

Criteria: In the IT Grand Prix forum, your ground team will moderate discussion threads. Participate in those discussions and the team with the most relevant posts wins the challenge.

Action: Visit the ITGP forum, find your team's threads ( your team color will be in the title), and participate in the discussion.

Challenge: Did you know you can track the number of times your VBC is viewed? Create and promote your Virtual Business Card to win this challenge.

Criteria: The team with the most cumulative views of their pit crew's Virtual Business Cards wins.

Action: Create your VBC and share it. Make sure you have the VBC linked from our servers (image versions do not count)!

Challenge: Take the Are You Certifiable Challenge

Criteria: Play the Windows 7 track and the team with the highest cumulative score will win.

Action: Play Are You Certifiable, (make sure you login with the same Live ID you used to register for IT Grand Prix), and select the Windows 7 track.

Challenge: Update your newsletter subscription preferences

Criteria: We recently added the ability for you to choose how you want to receive your MCP or MCT newsletter: monthly, weekly, or even daily. The team with the most people who have updated or confirmed their subscription preferences wins. That's it!

Action: Update or confirm your subscription preferences.

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Challenge Complete and Closed

1st Place (10 points): Gold Team
2nd Place (7 points): Blue Team
3rd Place (5 points): Green Team
4th Place (2 points): Red Team

Challenge: Recruit friends and colleagues to join your pit crew

Criteria: Each certification held by each new pit crew member (though May 21, 2010) is worth points to your team.

1 point MCDST, MCSA, MCAD
2 points MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA, MCTS
3 points MCITP, MCPD
4 points MCM, MCA

Action: Recruit your friends and colleagues to join your pit crew by May 21, 2010

Ground Team Challenges
NPower, a non-profit organization that matches technical volunteers with local non-profits requiring technical support, will match each team with a local non-profit in need of assistance on a specific project. Teams will not be aware of their objectives for the day until their morning meeting with David Elfassy, the IT Grand Prix host.

Videos and blogs will be posted continually so you can follow the action. We’ll summarize the daily activities to keep you up-to-date.

Washington, DC
 The teams will face a “capitol” challenge in working with Washington DC non-profits. In this town, where laws are created, we’ll see what rules they’ll have to follow to complete their very first NPower engagement.
New York, NY
Welcome to the Big Apple – if the teams can make it here, they can make it anywhere (or at least through to the next city). In a metropolis with a thousand non-profits, where will the teams end up?
Houston, TX
 Houston, will we have a problem? Before they can blast their way to the finish line, teams will need to get direction from mission control to find out their challenge of the day.
New Orleans, LA
 From jazz to food to history to TechEd, New Orleans has it all, including the final challenge. Which team will discover that New Orleans really is “the big easy?”