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SASO Participant Data
I'm someone who loves statistics, so I've taken it upon myself to organize some data on how well represented different fandoms are within the SASO. I've broken this down both in terms of number of teams per fandom, and number of participants associated with each fandom. Below is the data as I have organized it.
The very first thing I did was tally up how many of the competing teams belong to each fandom represented in the shipping olympics. Out of forty teams (not counting the grandstand) the results were as such:
If you look at these numbers, what this means is that when main rounds happen, more than a third of the fanworks created will be from Haikyuu, while one-quarter of the fanworks will be from Yowapeda. While Free and Kuroko no Basuke are also well represented, two-thirds of the fanwork in main rounds will be about Haikyuu or Free.
If you're someone who likes visuals, let me put that in a pie chart for you.
And if you're someone who likes lists and want to see which ships within each fandom are being represented, I drew up some nice lists organizing eligible ship teams by their parent fandom.
From the team roster, I was able to determine how many participants are on each of these teams, and therefore how many participants are representing some ship (or general sports team) from each of these fandoms. Those numbers broke down like so:
As the purpose here is to track participation by fandom, these numbers exclude the 39 participants placed in the grandstand, as they do not have an obvious fandom affiliation.
Again, if you like visuals, have a pie chart:
However, for the sake of accuracy, I can also provide the numbers with the 39 grandstand participants included.
What does all of this mean? In the end, whatever you want to take away from it. These numbers function roughly as a popularity sampling of the fandoms nominated to the SASO (and it's therefore worth considering which fandoms were nominated without finding representation by a team), but it is my personal opinion that they do not entirely accurately reflect the popularity of each nominated fandom within the participant base of the SASO.
But hey, hopefully this was an interesting read for someone besides myself! More statistics potentially forthcoming (if I remain ambitious) as the SASO progresses.
The very first thing I did was tally up how many of the competing teams belong to each fandom represented in the shipping olympics. Out of forty teams (not counting the grandstand) the results were as such:
If you look at these numbers, what this means is that when main rounds happen, more than a third of the fanworks created will be from Haikyuu, while one-quarter of the fanworks will be from Yowapeda. While Free and Kuroko no Basuke are also well represented, two-thirds of the fanwork in main rounds will be about Haikyuu or Free.
If you're someone who likes visuals, let me put that in a pie chart for you.
And if you're someone who likes lists and want to see which ships within each fandom are being represented, I drew up some nice lists organizing eligible ship teams by their parent fandom.
From the team roster, I was able to determine how many participants are on each of these teams, and therefore how many participants are representing some ship (or general sports team) from each of these fandoms. Those numbers broke down like so:
As the purpose here is to track participation by fandom, these numbers exclude the 39 participants placed in the grandstand, as they do not have an obvious fandom affiliation.
Again, if you like visuals, have a pie chart:
However, for the sake of accuracy, I can also provide the numbers with the 39 grandstand participants included.
What does all of this mean? In the end, whatever you want to take away from it. These numbers function roughly as a popularity sampling of the fandoms nominated to the SASO (and it's therefore worth considering which fandoms were nominated without finding representation by a team), but it is my personal opinion that they do not entirely accurately reflect the popularity of each nominated fandom within the participant base of the SASO.
But hey, hopefully this was an interesting read for someone besides myself! More statistics potentially forthcoming (if I remain ambitious) as the SASO progresses.
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When I participated in this event's predecessor, I helped a friend compile spreadsheets of bonus round prompts. The HSWC had much higher participation numbers (I want to say in the neighborhood of 700-800 people) and it was an INCREDIBLE undertaking. I told myself I wouldn't do that this year, even with the smaller numbers, and yet...
(I am at least considering it, because I do not love my own sanity.)
With main rounds, I'm definitely expecting a lot of art + writing combos, but I'm also really curious to see anything made that's outside the digital art/writing box. What any given team CAN make depends a lot on the skills of each member, so it may be the case that some teams will be geared strongly towards art, or strongly towards writing, just from the team makeup.
With collabs vs individual efforts, I'd like to see a comparison but know it'll be dependent on captains stating who made what after the anonymity period ends. Depending on how and where captains give credit (or creators take credit) it may be really inconvenient gathering that info.
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Ah, I'd forgotten about the anonymity thing. Again, not really familiar with how these types of things traditionally work. XD It'd be too annoying to go back and compile stats on these things after the fact, especially if it's dependent on captains editing the work with credit. Oh wellll.
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I have a lot of respect for anyone organizing an event with participation in the multiple hundreds of individuals, let me tell you.
Tbh I feel like if creators were revealed on the comm, checking the stats on 40 works after the fact wouldn't be bad. But if that doesn't happen, we may have to go without, just for practicality's sake. :')