At first I hosted the files from Dropbox until they temporarily locked the account because I had exceeded bandwidth. I then moved the files over to Wuala on April 23, 2010. There, it says that the file 1PDC 2010 Winners was “viewed” **2512** times.
What else do we have...
+----------------------------+------+------+------+ | Stat | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | +----------------------------+------+------+------+ | Number of forums contacted | ? | 22 | 24² | | Number of sponsors | 14 | 20 | 12² | | Number of judges | 6 | 7 | 7 | | Number of submissions | 112 | 64 | 61⁴ | | Number of categories | 21¹ | 18 | ? | +----------------------------+------+------+------+
¹ In 2009 we only had three winners, the rest were “honorable mentions” and “runner-ups”
² Have suggestions? Let me know!
³ Including multiple bundles!
⁴ There is still time! 😄
What do the numbers mean? How many gamers are there, how many dungeon crawlers? What is the ratio of RPG bloggers to RPG gamers? Nobody knows. I remember people joked about there being but **137** old school role-playing gamers out there — but I’ve collected **300** blogs on the Old School RPG Planet. _Numbers don’t mean much_… 😄
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Interesting stats Alex. Glad to see your at the helm of the contest again.
– Tim Shorts 2011-03-04 12:12 UTC
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There has to be at LEAST 1337 old-school gamers out there ;P
You know, if you count people who play 1st edition and 2nd edition (doesn’t it seem strange?) I know about 20 of them personally and have witnessed another 10 in a single game shop at once. I’m in a medium-size town on a US coast (the only Tacoma in the world apparently) and I’d estimate there are at least 100 in my little metroplex (between Olympia and Seattle), probably 500 in the state. This ignores all the people who play 3rd edition, effectively, the ones who play out of print games.
While that’s a good number for coastal cities, inland cities have lower populations and are less urban. I assume that reduces tabletop gamership, but who knows? Let’s say based on proportion there are 6,000 coastal OS gamers and some 1,500 inland OS gamers in America. Again, I think these are low estimates. I don’t know how popular these games are in other parts of the country, or certainly in other countries.
I suspect there are more old-school D&D players than railroad modelers. Maybe more than DBA players. Who knows? We need to add some questions to the census ;P
– 1d30 2011-03-04 18:06 UTC