Hey there Hat Lovers,
Many players bemoan the low-attendance Premier Challenges (PCs), Premier Challenge distribution, and how easy Championship Points are to get in certain areas relative to others. I wanted to know just how common low-attendance events were, which areas had better access to PCs, and what the trends in attendance looked like as the season progressed.
Today’s article is going to go over how the Premier Challenge system has gone since its introduction in the pilot series back in April-June 2014. Since then, we’ve had three more Premier Challenge series, the Kickoff Series, the Alpha Series, and the Omega Series. The dataset I’ve compiled comes from organizer reports of attendance in each series, and is not a complete dataset but just a representative sample. That said, my numbers aren’t too shabby; I have tallied attendances from 306 PCs worldwide, with 200 being from Canada and the USA.
What I’ve done is compared the series to each other within Canada and the USA, and characterized what attendances looked like within each series. I will look at the distribution of states reporting events, and also the trends in attendance, how the Junior/Senior attendances stack up, and what attendances in other countries look like. So without further ado, let’s dive in!
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