Originally Posted by SterlingBen

FORMAT WARS

NOTE: As with previous years only lists with the majority of formats listed were included.

Online/Streaming/Downloads/VOD:
For better or worse streaming is how the majority of participants watched their horror this year.
Total: 1808
Participants Providing Info - 59

2014 Total: 1,484
2014 Participants Providing Info - 59
2013 Total - 1,672
2013 Participants Providing Info - 61
2012 Total - 1570.5
2012 Participants Providing Info - 48
2011 Total - 3813
2011 Participants Providing Info - 43



NOTE: NWI which was previously tallied separately has been combined in the previous totals. Original data is spoilerized below.
Blu-ray Viewings:
Slipping to second place this year after finally gaining the number one spot in 2014 (8 years after the introduction of the format).
Total - 1766
Participants Providing Info - 64

2014 Total - 1,889
2014 Participants Providing Info - 74
2013 Total - 1,715
2013 Participants Providing Info - 77
2012 Total - 1,778
2012 Participants Providing Info - 80
2011 Total - 1,212
2011 Participants Providing Info - 67
2010 Total - 810
2010 Participants Providing Info - 57
2009 Total - 326
2009 Participants Providing Info - 22



DVD Viewings:
Total: 1408.75
Participants Providing Info - 61

2014 Total: 1,727
2014 Participants Providing Info - 70
2013 Total - 2,126
2013 Participants Providing Info - 79
2012 Total - 3,160
2012 Participants Providing Info - 87
2011 Total - 2,924½
2011 Participants Providing Info - 80



Television Viewings:
Total - 439.5
Participants Providing Info - 38

2014 Total - 574
2014 Participants Providing Info - 42
2013 Total - 638
2013 Participants Providing Info - 54
2012 Total - 842½
2012 Participants Providing Info - 59
2011 Total - 577½
2011 Participants Providing Info - 47



Theatrical Viewings:
Total - 77
Participants Providing Info - 31

Dead Formats:
VHS - 23.5
HD-DVD - 2
LaserDisc - 1
VCD - 1

Originally Posted by Surfinhank

Here's the totals for the sections I calculated. I've pasted them into the previous challenge totals like Chad does, if that helps.


Total Movies Watched:
2015 - 8,018
2014 - 8,074
2013 - 8,622
2012 - 9,691¾ (Hurricane Sandy outages probably prevented hitting 10,000)
2011 - 9,459¼
2010 - 8,864½
2009 - 8,558
2008 - 7,015
2007 - 7,672
2006 - 5,013
2005 - 2,394

GRAND TOTAL - 83,371

NOTE: As always, numbers are believed to be considerably higher as
some lists are incomplete.

Participants Providing Written Reviews in Lists:
2015 - 32
2014 - 47
2013 - 52
2012 - 60
2011 - 59
2010 - 67
2009 - 65

Participants Providing Formats Viewed:
2015 - 77
2014 - 81
2013 - 90
2012 - 100
2011 - 90
2010 - 76


And a few random things worth noting:

Discussion thread favorite "Wolf Cop" graced 15 lists this year.

Honorable mention to member JennandTheCats for watching 69 episodes of "Supernatural" during the challenge.

Originally Posted by Trevor

So last year, Chad decided that the 728 hours he put into creating the Challenge for us was enough, and did not have another 300 hours to create a results thread. Several of us volunteered to put together a small semblance of one.

Dick Laurent, undeadcow, Surfinhank, and SterlingBen worked on some great statistics. They were mostly posted in last year's final discussion thread. Perhaps we can repost them here.

I volunteered to go through and total up the count, and try to add funny/informative comments for each Challenger like Chad always does. Well, I made the mistake of taking pages and pages of notes for this job while at work, and those notes disappeared. My own fault, never should have left, or even done, them there. I gave up in disgust.

Well, guilt has prevailed and I've recreated a pale imitation of what I initially planned, which is of course a pale imitation of Chad's usual gem of a thread. I've only tabulated view and posting totals, the pithy comments may be added at a future date if I get really bored someday, but I doubt it.

Table and tabulations still a work in progress, but I'll go ahead and post the beginnings. I hope to finish it by tonight. Edit to add: Done for now, might add more comments in the future.

Originally Posted by BobO'Link

Nice job! BUT - You missed my buddy lrend with 49 viewings. I didn't go back and count her posts.

Originally Posted by DaveyJoe

I didn't post much last year, but making those montage videos is time consuming!

Originally Posted by Trevor

Well, I made the mistake of taking pages and pages of notes for this job while at work, and those notes disappeared. My own fault, never should have left

Originally Posted by Trevor

Nope, I have her in there.

I hope I didn't miss anyone, because that alternate row coloring will screw it all up.
Edit to add: Nevermind, I already screwed up the rows! And I forgot to add the centering formatting before inputting everything. Doh!

Originally Posted by BobO'Link

Yep... I see it now - I'd done a search and it didn't return any results. That's because her username is lrend (with a lower case L) and not Irend (upper case I). I blame it on her for the way she created the username.

Originally Posted by Chad

Yeah, those missing entries on the 'horror challenge history" table were bothering me too.

Originally Posted by davidh777

I always thought it was El-rend, like the elf king.

Originally Posted by Dick Laurent

I like the total posts contributions. I don't think we had that stat before?

Originally Posted by davidh777

I always thought it was El-rend, like the elf king.

Originally Posted by Trevor

Nerd!

Jealous I didn't remember that first.

Originally Posted by SethDLH

Seeing that I failed to break 100 may have just lit a fire under my ass.

Originally Posted by indiephantom

I've never hit that number. I think around 87 was my peak. So painfully close, but I was really pushing it and pretty maxed out by the end of the month. Still, one of the challenges that I enjoyed the most.

Originally Posted by indiephantom

I've never hit that number. I think around 87 was my peak. So painfully close, but I was really pushing it and pretty maxed out by the end of the month. Still, one of the challenges that I enjoyed the most.

Originally Posted by SethDLH

I know the feeling- the burnout is real haha.