I think it's pretty neat that 4500 people went to GP Vegas. Here are some complaints about an infographic that tried to illustrate what "4500 people" means.
Graphs that don't fit the numbers:
By the criteria of "most players over 4200," we can see that GP Vegas has about doubled the previous record. By "most players over zero," the numbers are much closer:
The category of "most people at a trading card game event" restricts it to between Magic and pseudo-Magic. I'm more surprised that there was ever such a big YuGiOh tournament than that 4500 people is a record.
The GP Vegas square is 70% taller than the GP Charlotte square, but it's also 70% wider than the GP Charlotte square. So a 70% increase in GP size is illustrated by a 189% increase in square size, so this graphic is pretty much a lie.
Meaningless reference points:
There are 16,000 cities in the US with a lower population than the attendance of GP Vegas.
This tells us that 16,000 communities are called "cities" despite having less than 5,000 people. If I consider a rock to be a city of 0 people, then there are literally millions of U.S. cities with a smaller population than GP Vegas.
The registered VIPs would be the 175th largest GP ever run.
This is kind of impressive if you know that there have been, like, 400 GPs, so the hypothetical "GP of VIPs" would be in the top half. But we do not know this. The "175th-largest GP ever run" is not really a benchmark for anything.
The pile of cards opened at the tournament would stack 455 feet high, which is taller than the 30th-largest building in Las Vegas.
Stacking cards in a column (or lining them end-to-end down the highway) doesn't tell me how many cards there are. What would be meaningful is if they said they were "opening enough cards to fill all the shelves at the StarCityGames warehouse" or if they were opening enough cards to fill every room in my apartment with cards.
Also, comparing the stack to the 30th-tallest building Vegas is completely silly. They could say, instead, that the stack of cards would be taller than the venue they were playing in, or that the stack of cards would be taller than the Wizards of the Coast building in Washington.
10 countries represented in the judging staff.
Probably there are more countries represented at pro tours. What would be interesting is how many countries were represented by players in the tournament.
GP Vegas Stats that were actually interesting:
- 1 of every 9 players in GP Vegas was from outside the U.S.
- 241 of each mythic rare expected (including 16 foil Tarmogoyfs).
- 160 judges (enough to staff every PT + Players' Champs + WMC this
year).
- All 4 of the Level 5 judges active this weekend (2 judging, 1
playing, 1 in Bangkok).
Most unreal GP Vegas stat (from reddit): The # of cards opened at this GP is ~1/2 the size of the Alpha print run. http://t.co/D0wKEhYUnN
— Ari Lax (@armlx) June 21, 2013
Also the photo gallery in the coverage has some nice birds-eye shots of the whole tournament (plus the great Kyle Ryc drinking from a licorice straw.)
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