[StephLee]

The full stats spreadsheet isn't ready for posting yet, but here's a taste of what I've found out:

Average ringers per alliance (all matches): 2.5
Average ringers per alliance (elimination only): 2.7
Average points per alliance (all matches): 18.6
Average points per alliance (elimination only): 35.9

Throughout the entire competition...

408 ringers
9 keepers
1 spoiler (thrown by a human player)
79 twelve-inch lifts
31 four-inch lifts
3943 points scored (after penalties)


Here's something I found interesting...

In the eliminations, there were 1292 points after penalties. Unpenalized, however, the score was 1462*. Of those 1462 points, 1020 were scored by 12" lifts and 90 were scored by 4" lifts. This leaves only 352 points scored by ringers and keepers for all of the eliminations.

So it breaks down like this, in percentages of total points:

12" lifts - 70%
ringers/keepers - 24%
4" lifts - 6%

It would seem ramps are exceptionally important in the eliminations, at least at VCU. I'll be interested to see if the same is true for other regionals as well.




*This number could be slightly off due to the fact that I didn't write down the unpenalized scores, so I had to go back and add points back in. The cause of inaccuracy is when an alliance scored 3 ringers; this could be either 6 points if they weren't directly in a row or 8 points for a row, but I had no way to tell since all penalties were 10 points. However, the variation is minimal; 1462 assumes all the sets of 3 were in rows, and if you assume they were not, it comes to 1447.