30-01-2014, 01:27 PM
Jonathan Livingstone Wrote:Re the interesting stats post by Phil, is there anyway to further extend that to tournament entry numbers, year by year? That would be a more accurate measure. We have some small tournaments on the current circuit, such as Inverness/Oban for example. Grangemouth in particular was a big loss, I seem to remember that being quite a big congress. If there is no historical records of combined congress attendance figures, we can always start recording this data to effeciently monitor trends.
Plenty of data on the grading section to analyse. Results of a quick look at one congress during half a lunch hour follow. Congress selected Glenrothes because its the next long established event coming up on the calendar.
Total entrants in the adults events at Glenrothes in the years when there were 3 adult sections have been.
2013: 98
2012: 94
2011: 99
2009: 101
2008: 84
2007: 101
2006: 90
2005: 129
Once again 2005 was a bumper year.
Once again I see no significant drift upwards or downwards since then.
Does anyone with spare time want to do the same summary for other long established congresses?
They might of course give different conclusions.