JULY 25-29

Stats

RollerCon, Know Thyself
2011 numbers - so far.
These stats were updated 3/18/11 and probably changed about 10 min later.
Collected from dozens of google forms sprinkled throughout this site, excel spreadsheets, BPT ticket sales, and a couple feedback polls.
Commented upon & interpreted by Ivanna “stats are like chips & salsa for the brains” S. Pankin

ATTENDEES
So far we’ve got attendees coming from:

  • United States: 1349
  • Canada: 104
  • Australia: 57
  • United Kingdom: 9
  • Sweden: 9
  • New Zealand: 6
  • Belgium: 6
  • Austria: 2
  • Germany: 3
  • Netherlands: 3
  • Denmark: 3
  • Brazil: 1

- 1433 of attendees plan to SKATE
- 118 are not skating

- 1271 of attendees are WOMEN
- 222 are MEN
A few just didn’t want to say; cool.

- At least 326 of us have USARS
- 377 of us have WFTDA
… which is particularly interesting, since WFTDA leagues are a proportionally small percentage of the total leagues in the world!

And here’s our age:
18-20: 19
21-24: 170
25-29: 400
30-34: 446
35-39: 264
40-44: 130
45-49: 44
50+: 23

EVENTS

CHALLENGES

  • 35 Single-period slots available
  • 10 Full-length Bout slots available
  • 58 pairs of teams have applied for the slots
  • 29 (half) of the pairs of teams are Co-Ed matches

See the Challenges Registration page for which teams have applied.

TRAINING

  • 12 training classes per day on 3 concurrent tracks… 60 total for the week
    + 15 total overflow slots
  • MVP passes (which include training) are going to sell out in March at about 2000
  • Classes will be capped at 75 skaters each
  • They will be taught by about 40 coaches
  • There will be at least ONE “International” Class per day (maybe more)

More info about coaches, classes, schedule, etc.
Prediction: Classes will be better than ever and people will love them - and this will also be the source of the most complaints, too - because skaters want the classes to be both unlimited (so they can get in) and exclusive (so no one else but them can get in). We’ll keep trying to find the perfect grippy, fast wheel, and we’ll keep trying to please everyone in this regard, too!

STAFF
366 have volunteered so far on our Help Wanted page. Here are the jobs they’re interested in (staffing is just getting started):

  • Announcers: 34 (Announcers are smart! 32 of them have filled out the announcer page, too!)
  • Cleanup Crew (the Moms): 76
  • Dicks: 130
  • EMTs: 29
  • Inventory, Setup / Teardown: 62
  • Planning & Mgmt: 72 (54 have been hired)
  • Coaches: 39 (but only 26 have submitted classes)
  • On skates officials - holy shit: 101
  • Off skates officials - wow: 122
  • Registration: 97
  • Seminar leaders: 49 (but only 27 have submitted seminars)
  • Track Setup / Teardown: 94
  • Info booth: 82
  • Merch& raffle: 90
  • Photo / vid / media: 26 (and 23 of them filled out the media pass request)
  • Vendor Setup / management: 97

So far of all those volunteers, 250 are female, and 116 are male. Interesting when you compare to the attendee numbers!

268 of our potential staff members plan to play in the Challenges. They better hurry and get their teams registered…

FAVE STAFF EVENTS
We asked our staff what their fave events were (and we finally wised up yesterday and started asking attendees when they sign up for tickets, too).

  • Athletic training: 50
  • Bars & Nightclubs: zip
  • Black n Blue Ball: 17
  • Bouts: 73
  • Challenges: 84 - the winner!
  • Derby Wedding: 4
  • Pool Party: 12
  • Karaoke: 6
  • Scavenger Hunt: 13
  • Scrimmages: 36
  • Skatepark Tour: 2
  • Vendor Village: 6
RollerCon gets bigger, better and more awesome every year - and CHEAPER.
You can thank the Volunteer staff for that!
RC 2011 Earliest Bird MVP Pass Cost: $98
RC 2010 MVP Pass: $196.83
RC 2009 MVP Pass: $250.21
Anyone remember 2008 or earlier? I was there, but…

RollerCon 2010 by the numbers:

  • Hotels: 3 hotels with over 600 rooms counted towards our “blocks”
  • Tracks: 5 total; two training, one regulation at Sport Center and 2 more regulations at Fremont St & Flamingo Banks
  • Shuttles: 8, including 2 double deckers, 2 25-passenger van limos & 4 fancy pants big tour bus “coaches”
  • Different *types* of events (training classes, challenges, scrimmages, pool parties, etc): 15
  • On Skates Training classes: 14 coaches offering 52 hours of on-skates classes
  • Seminars & Off-skates training: 18 leaders offering est 52 hrs of seminars (still counting)
  • People who attended training & seminars: 3,030 (lots of peeps a lot more than once)
  • Peeps who attended Black n Blue Ball: estimated over 800
  • Estimated Hooters pool party attendance at midnight each night: est 200+
  • Vendors: 64 with over 40 vendor booths
  • Raffle prizes: We awarded an estimated $23,800 retail value in rad stuff, including 8 pairs of skates
  • Staff: We scheduled 326 staff members for 1964 hours. We ended up with 338 and we’re still calculating how many hours they actually worked… its going to be a lot more than scheduled.
  • Twitters sent before RC10: 74 over the course of 11 months, averaging one per month in the early months, once a week til the 2 weeks before, then 1 per day
  • Twitters sent during 5 days of RC10 (99% Challenge / bout scores & raffle winners): 78 in 5 days
  • Attendees: 1,591 & still counting, including our Guest List but not including peeps who just came to party at the pool
  • ONE & ONLY subject of complaints so far: Peeps wanted more training classes with less other people getting trained besides themselves
  • Areas of most compliments so far: ticket prices, Skate Court floor, volunteer shirt design, registration, Awesome vs SeXY bout and NUMBER ONE compliment: peeps loved the venues - especially Hooters pool

Ivanna’s favorite stats:

  • 2009 Registration line average wait estimates for Wed: about 5 hours
  • 2010 Registration line average wait estimates for Wed: about 20 minutes