WQC-2013: a bit of statistics
Russian- and Latvian-speaking players participate in WQC since 2008 when Steven de Ceuster contacted Yura Shatz and the Riga ChGK Club. This year was the first when I got relay baton for supervising Russian version of the tournament.
Venues
My aim was to do my best and to bring the game to everyone who wanted to take part in it. Therefore, I was registering venues till almost the last possible minute. As the result 39 venues in 9 countries were recruited and 37 of them actually took part. (It's really pity that neither Odessa with its brilliant Oleg Tarasenko, nor Navoiy, Uzbekistan with remarkable Nail Farukshin managed to stage the event, though registered).
Those 37 venues were located in 8 countries (Latvia. Russia. Ukraine. Belarus, Estonia, Armenia, Germany and the Netherlands). Alluring three more (Azerbaijan, Australia and Uzbekistan) remains my aim for WQC-2014. Possibly, more focus on Georgia is needed as well. Six out of those 8 countries were regular WQC participants. Belarus made its international debut and due to enthusiasm of Russian Jeopardy! player Kolya Maksimov the Netherlands joined the list of countries with Russian-speaking venues for the first time.
Those 37 venues were located in 33 cities. Traditionally, Russian-speaking community is the only one in the world that has several WQC venues within single city. Of course, it comes from our tradition to have several venues for ChGK tournaments in some major game centers. And there is nothing bad in it until everything is under control. As expected Moscow, Saint-Petersburg and Yerevan opted to arrange 2-3 venues per city.
20 out of 37 venues (54%) were regular (i.e. participated in WQC-2012 and/or earlier editions). Riga and Nizhnevartovsk are in since the very start. My kudos to Yury Shatz, Marina Jermaka, Anita Zalaiskalne and Anton Katermin!
4 venues (11%) joined WQC after their positive experience with international quizzing after the advent of Hot-100 in Russian.
13 venues (30%) were absolute debutants.
19 of 24 venues (79%) participated in 2012 Championships returned back in 2013.
Riga venue was the largest with 37 players. Moscow's Kontsert venue with 21 quizzers was the second and Nizhnevartovsk, Chelyabinsk and Bryansk with 18 attendees followed. The tiniest venue was in Rostov-on-Don with only one, though very honest participant.
Participants
348 participants took part in WQC-2013 in either Russian or Latvian. It means +21% increase from 2012.
79 players (23%) were female.
46 players (13%) were under 20 years old.
6 participants (2%) were 60+ years old. Irbe Arijs of Latvia was the only player in 70+ age category.
One player - Irina Bikina from Saratov - was blind.
The top player was Anatoly Belkin of Moscow with 112 answers (see him below in International Jeopardy! 1997).
Scores
Though WQC-2013 was significantly tougher than WQC-2012 the new all-time records were set for Russia (112), Armenia (89), Russian-speaking Estonia (88), Belarus (80) and Russian-speaking Germany (69).
What is even more remarkable, the outstanding majority of Russian- and Latvian-speaking quizzers even despite sometimes poorer results than in 2012, finished placed significantly higher. And Anatoly Belkin in his debut year became the third Russian-speaking player ever to penetrate international top-100. Two others - Oleg Tarasenko of Ukraine and Maxim Krainov of Latvia - did not participated this year. Generally speaking, it means that we are more competitive on international arena when it comes to tougher quizzes, because easy questions from Anglo-Saxon world (especially in lowbrow categories) are our Achilles' heel.
The highest average (7.6) suprisingly was scored in Lifestyle, the lowest (3.4) for the 6th year in a row - in Entertainment.
Traditionally, best players scored 20+ in Arts, Media and History and nearly so in Sciences.
Anatoly Belkin of Moscow was #19 globally in Arts and #49 in Sciences. Maxim Feoktostov of Saransk was #21 in History. Konstantin Rukhani of Nizhni Novgorod was #40 in Sciences and #55 in Sports. Vladimir Pecheroga of Kiev was #44 in World. Stanislav Malchyonkov of Saransk was #51 in Media and then... Alexander Federyakin of Chelyabinsk was #162 in Entertainment with 12 points. And he was the best here. Out of 348 players from 8 different countries. Something is definitely wrong with the category. Or, probably, with us because the situation is similar from year to year.
272 players (70%) scored in every category.
318 players (91%) scored in at least seven categories.
336 players (97%) scored in at least six categories.
The worst categories were:
Entertainment - for 49% of players.
Sports - for 34% of players.
History - for 12% of players.
Cultire - for 10% of players.
World - for 6%.
Sciences - for 4%.
Lifestyle - for 3%.
(Notice: Some players had several equally worst categories)
The data clearly shows that the more recent and lowbrow stuff the category covers, the poorer the results for Russian- and Latvian-speaking players are. And results in highbrow categories, on the contrary, are close to world-level. Especially taking into account that Belkin, Feoktistov and Malchyonkov are debutants.
That was WQC-2013. We'll see what WQC-2014 will bring for us. I hope, that even more players will come to take part in this cute event next year and that their performance will continue improving ever further. But what is more important, I hope, they enjoyed the event this year and will enjoy in 2014 as well.
Come on and play!
Venues
My aim was to do my best and to bring the game to everyone who wanted to take part in it. Therefore, I was registering venues till almost the last possible minute. As the result 39 venues in 9 countries were recruited and 37 of them actually took part. (It's really pity that neither Odessa with its brilliant Oleg Tarasenko, nor Navoiy, Uzbekistan with remarkable Nail Farukshin managed to stage the event, though registered).
Those 37 venues were located in 8 countries (Latvia. Russia. Ukraine. Belarus, Estonia, Armenia, Germany and the Netherlands). Alluring three more (Azerbaijan, Australia and Uzbekistan) remains my aim for WQC-2014. Possibly, more focus on Georgia is needed as well. Six out of those 8 countries were regular WQC participants. Belarus made its international debut and due to enthusiasm of Russian Jeopardy! player Kolya Maksimov the Netherlands joined the list of countries with Russian-speaking venues for the first time.
Those 37 venues were located in 33 cities. Traditionally, Russian-speaking community is the only one in the world that has several WQC venues within single city. Of course, it comes from our tradition to have several venues for ChGK tournaments in some major game centers. And there is nothing bad in it until everything is under control. As expected Moscow, Saint-Petersburg and Yerevan opted to arrange 2-3 venues per city.
20 out of 37 venues (54%) were regular (i.e. participated in WQC-2012 and/or earlier editions). Riga and Nizhnevartovsk are in since the very start. My kudos to Yury Shatz, Marina Jermaka, Anita Zalaiskalne and Anton Katermin!
4 venues (11%) joined WQC after their positive experience with international quizzing after the advent of Hot-100 in Russian.
13 venues (30%) were absolute debutants.
19 of 24 venues (79%) participated in 2012 Championships returned back in 2013.
Riga venue was the largest with 37 players. Moscow's Kontsert venue with 21 quizzers was the second and Nizhnevartovsk, Chelyabinsk and Bryansk with 18 attendees followed. The tiniest venue was in Rostov-on-Don with only one, though very honest participant.
Participants
348 participants took part in WQC-2013 in either Russian or Latvian. It means +21% increase from 2012.
79 players (23%) were female.
46 players (13%) were under 20 years old.
6 participants (2%) were 60+ years old. Irbe Arijs of Latvia was the only player in 70+ age category.
One player - Irina Bikina from Saratov - was blind.
The top player was Anatoly Belkin of Moscow with 112 answers (see him below in International Jeopardy! 1997).
Click to viewScores
Though WQC-2013 was significantly tougher than WQC-2012 the new all-time records were set for Russia (112), Armenia (89), Russian-speaking Estonia (88), Belarus (80) and Russian-speaking Germany (69).
What is even more remarkable, the outstanding majority of Russian- and Latvian-speaking quizzers even despite sometimes poorer results than in 2012, finished placed significantly higher. And Anatoly Belkin in his debut year became the third Russian-speaking player ever to penetrate international top-100. Two others - Oleg Tarasenko of Ukraine and Maxim Krainov of Latvia - did not participated this year. Generally speaking, it means that we are more competitive on international arena when it comes to tougher quizzes, because easy questions from Anglo-Saxon world (especially in lowbrow categories) are our Achilles' heel.
The highest average (7.6) suprisingly was scored in Lifestyle, the lowest (3.4) for the 6th year in a row - in Entertainment.
Traditionally, best players scored 20+ in Arts, Media and History and nearly so in Sciences.
Anatoly Belkin of Moscow was #19 globally in Arts and #49 in Sciences. Maxim Feoktostov of Saransk was #21 in History. Konstantin Rukhani of Nizhni Novgorod was #40 in Sciences and #55 in Sports. Vladimir Pecheroga of Kiev was #44 in World. Stanislav Malchyonkov of Saransk was #51 in Media and then... Alexander Federyakin of Chelyabinsk was #162 in Entertainment with 12 points. And he was the best here. Out of 348 players from 8 different countries. Something is definitely wrong with the category. Or, probably, with us because the situation is similar from year to year.
272 players (70%) scored in every category.
318 players (91%) scored in at least seven categories.
336 players (97%) scored in at least six categories.
The worst categories were:
Entertainment - for 49% of players.
Sports - for 34% of players.
History - for 12% of players.
Cultire - for 10% of players.
World - for 6%.
Sciences - for 4%.
Lifestyle - for 3%.
(Notice: Some players had several equally worst categories)
The data clearly shows that the more recent and lowbrow stuff the category covers, the poorer the results for Russian- and Latvian-speaking players are. And results in highbrow categories, on the contrary, are close to world-level. Especially taking into account that Belkin, Feoktistov and Malchyonkov are debutants.
That was WQC-2013. We'll see what WQC-2014 will bring for us. I hope, that even more players will come to take part in this cute event next year and that their performance will continue improving ever further. But what is more important, I hope, they enjoyed the event this year and will enjoy in 2014 as well.
Come on and play!