A few calculations

[stellar_muddle]

[insert rant/calculations on SCA player numbers and if a majority of people in Lochac make it to Festival]

Well, no actually. Just ended up posting the numbers to the Lochac Shambles list directly. If you care, you can probably read it there.

I should probably stop poking now...

Majority, HAH!!!

Though if I look now, I was out by 1 on the NZ members (sorry)... Given the rest of the rounding, doesn't matter overall.

Ok, so I get pedantic over weird things...

Comments

[teffania.livejournal.com]

Thankyou for doing that!
I read the message and had exactly the same reaction to the word majority.

I know the truth is no event will ever have the majority of members there, and that festival is likely to have the highest number of members ever at an event, which doesn't invalidate their remarks, but using the wrong words is wot leads to discrimination.

The other thing I think no-one in NZ realises is that when they think of the east coast events having lots of events, as a melbournite it feels like there are actually two political blocks: adelaide-tas-melb and from canberra north. I doubt it's reality, but that's the way it sometimes feels like from here, especially when people say things like "everyone goes to festival". It's part of the language - brisbane people talk about how they had to travel further to yass (that was a bloody long drive I hear), but only compare the drive to us melbournians, and forget that we are only halfway to tasmania or adelaide. I guess it's because from brisbane (or anywhere in NSW), you have to look towards sydney, but from melbourne we don't: adelaide is closer, tassie is sometimes an easier trip.

And it's still cheaper to fly to NZ than WA.