Last week, I wrote that the November 14 National Gaming Day event had some outstanding participation, “easily doubling the number of participants from last year, NGD mastermind Jenny Levine told American Libraries.”
Even though NGD didn’t have any firm numbers at the time of my first post, it was clear that the 2009 event was the biggest NGD to date. Today, NGD released official counts, taken from survey results:
- Number of libraries that submitted # of players for NGD activities: 549
- Total number of players for NGD activities: 31,296
- Number of libraries in the national Super Smash Bros Brawl tournament (simultaneous): 42
- Number of libraries in the national Rock Band High Score tournament (asynchronous): 14
- Number of non-US libraries that participated (that we know of): 2 (Canada, Japan), with interest expressed from Morocco for next year)
- Total # of players for NGD2008 activities: 14,184
- Number of libraries that submitted # of players for NGD2008 activities: 557
- Number of libraries registered to participate: 1,365
- Total # of players for NGD2008 activities: 14,184