Interesting TWD note

According to my script, the year-on-year TWD entries currently look like:

1997	4
1998	15
1999	22
2000	35
2001	74
2002	92
2003	117
2004	99
2005	115
2006	113
2007	200
2008	221
2009	237
2010	211
2011	239

so 2011 has overtaken 2009 as the year with the most TWD entries, and this is before all the EC tournaments have been added.

What is the number of players in each year ? Still, not bad for a dead game.

I gave my 0.1%.

Since not every entry reports numbers, and the format isn't always standardised, these figures are not absolutely correct, but should be close:

2008	21.984
2009	20.597
2010	21.434
2011	19.293

So there appears to be a bit of a drop, but I'm not sure it's significant and may be due to new groups reporting tournaments in the 10-15 player range.

A more interesting exercise would be looking at breaking numbers down geographically over the last few years, to see where the games growing and where it might be struggling, but that I'll leave to someone else.