Will we find out how many entries were there for GT Academy 2014?

gitslautriv · Jun 18, 2014

Hi Kaz,

I don't expect you to remember and reel off figures, but I would like to know how many people entered this year's event worldwide, by country and by eligible region.

I admit, I have taken the idea from https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/2014-final-participation-numbers.311460/ but did enjoy knowing my relative success during the previous two runnings (I started on the 2012 event).

TRLWNC7396 · Jun 19, 2014

I ran a long time in each of the first three events, and the numbers were over 400K for round 1, over 280K for round 2, and over 130K for round 3. Someone else did a slow run for round 4, and it was over 10K.

gitslautriv · Jun 19, 2014

TRLWNC7396
I ran a long time in each of the first three events, and the numbers were over 400K for round 1, over 280K for round 2, and over 130K for round 3. Someone else did a slow run for round 4, and it was over 10K.

If these figures are fairly accurate at the end of the event, that's quite a drop from the 1500K from last year. Could this be down to not being a "free demo"?

TRLWNC7396 · Jun 19, 2014

I'll do the check again later to make sure and get exact numbers, but, yeah, I imagine so. They wanted only those who are serious.

TRLWNC7396 · Jun 20, 2014

Okay, just checked. Final numbers:

Round 1: 411991
Round 2: 256915
Round 3: 148481
Round 4 (according to my friend): 105871, with the USA taking up 11627 of those numbers.

Quite a lot entered, and quite a few made it to the final round!

Samus · Jun 20, 2014

No surprise really that the numbers decrease, if you're not one of those 100 people with an actual shot of progressing in the event there is very little motivation to do them. There is no reward for the 99% except the free car in Rd4.

gitslautriv · Jun 22, 2014

Cheers TRL. :cheers:

Samus
No surprise really that the numbers decrease, if you're not one of those 100 people with an actual shot of progressing in the event there is very little motivation to do them. There is no reward for the 99% except the free car in Rd4.

At least in 2012, a car was available for each round. Also short learning sectors leading up to the final test was more like an Academy.