Those of you who sometimes look at our statistics displaying on the frontpage may have noticed this was coming.
As of today we have reached a unique milestone: we now have more than ONE MILLION dancesport results for you!
Several years ago, we have become the premier source of information in the world of dancesport. We have surpassed all other websites for the amount of results stored and displayed. You, dear readers, have followed - again, for years this is the Dancesport Media that is the most read in the world overall. Probably most people interested in dancing read 1-2 printed media, and go to 3-4 dancing websites - while most other media changes per person, DancesportInfo.Net looks to be on everyone's shortlist.
Since this has became a reality, we have not stopped to bring all of you as much information as quickly as we could. We have also been very careful to try to make this also quality information: removing duplicates and making sure it is easily readable for you all.
We are extremely happy with this milestone and promise not to stop.
So we thought we would celebrate. We are drinking some wine. However, as that is something we are not able to share with you, we thought we would share some statistics regarding the results on our database that you may find interesting.
Something about the background to help you imagine the amount of work required. It took us about 7 years to build up this many results. During this 7 years, 16 people have contributed their time and effort to physically populate the database (we have today 7-8 people actively adding results).
While we have some who are permanently entering results, we also have representatives in certain countries who take care of their own community and take care of those results. (By the way, if you want to help and become a representative, write to us!)
Of course, many, many of our readers have submitted us results to add. A thank you must go to everyone who have sent us new results, notified us if something is missing, or let us know that something needs to be corrected (yes, in this amount of data there are always mistakes and we are happy if you point these out so we can correct them). Please continue to do so.
So how much results are we adding? Here is a little graphic for you on how the database grew - the amount of results we added over the last 2 years was averaging above 22.000 results per month.
But then, let's talk about what is in there. What are we covering? Well, the results are spanning over 100 years (!) now, with the first result recorded from 1909. True, we only know the winners of this competition (the first ever World Championships). In fact, a lot of the earlier years results are very patchy. If you can expand this knowledge and have more historic results, please write us!
Below you will find a different graphic - this shows how much results we have from the different periods (click on the graph to download a larger version).
Everybody likes toplists, so here is a few from our database:
The 1,000,000th result entry is Andrzej Sadecki & Karina Nawrot who just been entered to the database with the 1st place at Silesiana Open 2009! To celebrate this unique milestone we would award a Gold Membership for both partners of the couple. Congratualations to Andrzej and Karina!
Top 3 couples with most results registered:
We have decided to award a Gold Membership to both partners of the couple with most results registered. So - congratulations Martin and Zuzana!
Top 3 Dancers with most results registered:
Top 3 Dance events of all time (most entries per event)
Top 3 Dance Competitions of all time (most entries per competition)
(for those who are curious, this year's Blackpool Dance Festival had the 6th most entries with 4788)
A personal touch that makes it interesting for us is that this 1.000.000th result came almost on the day when 2 of the DancesportInfo partners celebrate their birthday on the 15th of June.
So we wish all our more than 20.000 registered users and the many more readers who are not registered happy browsing. Remember we are here all the time - do not hesitate to write to us about anything - be that content, functionality of the website, and of course (we just had to mention this...) about advertising your competition, shop, anything that you want other dancers to see. Now there are more than a million reasons to do it on DancesportInfo.Net!