As my contribution to the debate over competitiveness vs spirit, I'd like to post some hard data from 1999 World Clubs in St Andrews (open division).
Average Spirit Score per team by region (bigger is better): North America (8 teams) 95 Europe (23 teams) 93.15 (British Isles (7 teams) 95.5) Rest of World (8 teams) 94.31 Since this is misleading as it doesn't account for competitiveness of team/games played, here are the average sums of final placing and spirit rank per team by region (smaller is better): North America 29.88 Europe 42.57 (B.I. 45.72) Rest of World 42.75 Perhaps subjective impressions of North American spiritlessness are misleading? ODB (CU #6) P.S. source http://www.geocities.com/~thelittlepunks/wfdf/mainindex.htm. P.P.S. Couldn't resist being the boffin that I am ;) ------------------------------------------------------ Department of Zoology University of Cambridge Downing Street Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK Tel: +44 1223 336673 Fax: +1 240 3688208 Mob: +44 7789 221401 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/larg/pages/SASHA.HTM ------------------------------------------------------ -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pootle.near.me.uk/mailman/listinfo/britdisc
