We are at the half-way milestone (or millstone, depending on view!) now. As a new thing, we’ll post the stats at the beginning of the month as a teaser of what’s to come in the waves… an ‘exit-poll’ if you will!

There are so many things one could number crunch here, with 35 participants origianlly signed up. Let’s have at who’s actually still with us. (I apologize in advance, but I have to rely on Google Spreadsheets).

How’s it going? Who’s still here?

Now, month 2 was a hard one with 4 outs – at least on the surface of things. But, since it was month two these outs were all people who never started. We have had this almost every year. It is very human to overestimate both your willingness when push comes to shove and your dedication in the long run. I had hoped that pushing the deadline for registration forward would lead to less, but it seems to be a natural law. I not also that every single casualty so far has been a newcomer to the challenge. This makes good sense. I could have shown stats where this was filtered on rookies and veterans and so on, but it really is very clear. Looking at where in the world people ‘fail’ the answer is simply: all over. So it is not discrepancies between work weeks across the globe that is haunting people.

Month 3 looks a bit alarming, as the Wachtmeisters Penal battalion (those who mulliganed) now counts 7 members. Again it is not so worrying, as out of the 4 mulligans 2 were more or less planned and announced earlier, and one is Jon McMaster. We did lose one Ork in Month 3 too: K-dog handed in the towel. Life I guess.

Overall stats so far: What has been achieved?

Let us turn our attention to the core of this thing: What has been done so far?

That is pretty OK for a group of old men I think. 767 models! On average people are spending 21.2 hours a month doing this thing. That is half a work week! Crazy! I have excluded ‘outs’ from the averages throughout.

If we then look at how the Rookies (1 or less challenges completed) compare to the veterans:

A couple of comments: We can see that veterans are really racing ahead with regards to model count. This is borne by a few individuals though, who all really pull high numbers. Interestingly, the veteran group also clock a few less hours – since this is an average the difference is actually quite pronounced in my opinion. Lastly, the Bingo averages for the two groups differs immensely. I guess, in some ways this reflects that people who have been a part of the show for longer, are used to my shenanigans and feel less ‘overwhelmed’ by the heavy prodding towards leopard print and what not. I can only say, as always, that everything beyond painting your pledge is purely voluntary and just for a bit of fun.

Lastly I’ve parsed the data on which part of the world the painters are from:

Obviously the totals reflect the shear amount of people in the locations. But I do note, that the Aussies are a bit higher in Crisis levels and a bit lower in bingo averages. And their average hours are higher. The most interesting thing, in my opionion, from this is when you compare America and Oceania. Same amount of hours roughly, vastly different amount of points and models!

Individual contributions

So after having looked at our combined efforts lets look at who did what and where? I have collected the individual contributions below. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a good way to exclude the ‘out’ but I hope they’ll survive being mentioned anyway.

It is probably no big surprise that there is an overlap between those who have finished the most models and most points. Other than that the findings are probably mostly of individual interest: I though you might find it funny to see ‘where’ you are on these maps.

That’s all I cared to do for stats this month! We’ll be back with more waves and bingo later this month! Enjoy!