Congrats to the Winners from Today’s ‪#‎GeekWeek‬ Games 24 Hour Challenge!

31 Players won bonuses — as we wait for trailblazing points to roll in overnight, we’d like to congratulate all 400 players who participated! 56 people submitted over 25 non-tutorial cubes – you can see how your stats stack up here.

Together, the EyeWire community completed 8,273 cubes in the past 24h and 25,500 cubes since the Geek Week Games began. You finished a new cell (and a new Geek Week Starburst is live!).

Record Breakers

@Crazyman4865 tops out the leaderboard with over 118,000 points! This is a new all-time record for daily (pre bonus) score in EyeWire. According to the GeekWeek Challenge Day Rules, he wins a +50,000 point bonus plus his choice of Science Swag from the new EyeWire Braingear Shop for winning a GeekWeek Games Challenge Day.  The next chance to win is coming on Thursday.

@Crazyman4865 also beat the previous all-time record for most cubes completed in one day by one player. Today he completed 1,256 cubes on a previous week’s accuracy of 91.9%. Crazy mode awesome! Check out the EyeWire Record Book for other epic players making substantial gameplay toward revolutions in neuroscience.

Together, the EyeWire community completed 8,273 cubes in the past 24h and 25,500 cubes since the Geek Week Games began. You finished a new cell (and a new Geek Week Starburst is live!).

Final Challenge points will be posted tomorrow.

Tomorrow we’ll also post the first stat report for the overall Geek Week Games. Who will be crowned champion?

More than a Game

YouTube’s Geek Week has inspired us here at Seung Lab to a number of actions celebrating brains. Today we hosted a Neuroscience of Memory Hangout with Steve Ramirez of Nobel Prize winning Tonegawa Lab. Below he talks about their research into memory formation, answers viewers’ questions and tells an awesome story about how Hollywood movies inspired his group to brainstorm interesting questions, one of which led to their research project currently on the cover of Science.

We also released the first EyeWire animation, which we’re pleased to share has been featured by YouTube in a Brainiac Highlights Playlist. This animation will get a post of it’s own; for now we’re simply delighted to show you some of the beautiful nurons that EyeWire players have discovered.

Keep playing — the Geek Week Games run until Saturday, April 10th at Midnight!

Round Two Challenge is coming up on Thursday

Thurs, Aug 8 @ 1pm ET: Twitter Livechat on Gaming with YouTube. Use hashtag #geekweekgames and tweet us @eye_wire.

Thurs, Aug 8 @ 2pm ET: Behind the Scenes @ EyeWIre: MIT Neuroscience Gamelab Tour for Geek Week Gaming Day.

24 Hour Challenge Day Bonuses

Make history. Play the Geek Week Games on http://eyewire.org/