A new year -just look at the banner above- and new competitions too.
Bit first our carry-overs:

December 27, 2012 to January 03, 2013 - Show your supercruncher !!!
Another very late entry from GPU Users Group, who want to see whether their nVidia GTX 690 are as good as the nVidia marketing boys have promised.
For those of us with non-DP capable or HD 38xx Ati/AMD cards or Llano/Trinity APUs: this is your chance! You can't use them for MilkyWay anyway. 450 participants from 15 teams so far. Most participants seem to be tied up at MilkyWay, WCG and/or Seti at this moment.
Name Rank Team Score
Vaughan 83
Dirk Broer 90
Ded1o1 147
Kagaya Kyo 339
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/299


December 28, 2012 to January 04, 2013 - 2012 - 2013
SETIKAH@Korea must have thought about their team name when they organised this challenge.
We'll be going out the old year with Seti@Home and we're beginning the new year with it as well.
There are already 4209 participants from 23 teams and Wingless Wonder strikes again!
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/277



January 01 to January 06 - A Small Step to Infinity
IBM wishes a happy new year to us all with a challenge for NumberFields@home.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/268


January 01 to January 08 - Happy New Year
The Polish National Team wishes a happy new year to us all with a challenge for OProject@Home.
Better not wait too long starting up, as some WUs have a long validation track.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/308


January 01 to January 08 - SIMAP January 2013 New Year's Scramble
Our monthly classic.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/290


January 05 to January 07 - The first Weekend of the year: Do you have everything needed to get your targets?
Dutch GPU Cows wants you to test your hardware on DistrRTgen in this first weekend of the year. Only real heavy GPUs will make any impact in a mere two days.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/301


January 05 to January 12 - Seti Forever
Boinc Russia offers an opportunity for those who've done not enough Seti@Home last weeks.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/309


January 13 to January 19 - 13 January 1993: STS-54 Shuttle mission 8:59.30 am EST (13:59:30 UTC)
Dutch GPU Cows organizes a complete week for Einstein@Home.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/303


January 13 to January 20 - WUProp works parallel with other projects (NOT USES CPU ¶ GPU)
Team Russia promotes the WuProp project. This project provides information by and and for Boinc users about projects, CPUs and GPUs.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/311


January 20 to January 27 - FreeHAL works parallel with other projects (NOT USES CPU ¶ GPU)
Team Russia promotes the FreeHAL project. Their claim about not using CPU needs some correction: you can choose for nci or normal WUs.
My own experience is that you do need plenty of free RAM to run it too, especially with 32-bit systems. Sometimes HAL is the only left thing runing...
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/313


January 25 to February 01 - January (also known as: ice-month) is named after Janus, the Roman god of gates and doors.
Janus is also known to have two faces, but that aspect of him is not mentioned by Dutch GPU Cows, who organize a complete week forMilkyWay@Home for him.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/305


January 29 to February 01 - Crunch with the best, or lunch with the rest ! [Season 1 - Episode 1¶12 : Happy New Year !]
This seems to be the month of the long challenges names! Brigade du Cosmos wants you for Seti@Home again.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/279