I’ve always wanted to improve my infographic game, but haven’t taken as many steps toward doing so as I should have. I’ve looked at a ton of data in a lot of different contexts as part of working on the project, and while many of them are best handled with a spreadsheet or table of numbers, that shouldn’t be the only tool in my box. Sometimes I also feel like my lack of infographic acumen constrains the kind of questions I’m willing to investigate, which is just bad science.

With the advent of Regional Championships feeding the Pro Tour, I’ve been interested in knowing which region’s participants have the best finishes. I guess the lack of World Magic Cup has left me with no outlet to root for players on geographic lines? I investigated this a little bit for PT March of the Machine, but vowed that for Barcelona I would make an interactive infographic so that you could see the data for yourself, or answer questions you didn’t know you had.

That infographic now exists, and I’m looking forward to building on this to tighten up some of the loose edges for future events. You can click on different invite types to see those players’ positions in the final standings, or you can do the deck equivalent of this—click on a deck archetype name and see the distribution of that deck’s finishes among the constructed standings. Wizards used to publish lists like “decks that had 27+ match points,” “decks that had 24-26 match points,” etc., but it didn’t provide the ability to see succinctly how all pilots of that archetype did. That was the issue I was hoping to solve. Each competitor’s circle also links to their decklist if you want to see the list exactly. I hope you have fun clicking around and turning the lights on and off!

One of the themes of Elo Project 2.0 is to better synthesize the data that we make available here—this could take the form of letting you see “Elo notables” from tournaments that happened a decade ago, or showing you a player’s performance season-by-season. This infographic points in that direction. More stuff like it is in the pipeline.

As for PTLTR results by region, I think Europe was the clear winner: of 40 players attending who earned an invite via a European Regional Championship, 23 made day two, and 9 reached 30 match points (10-6 or better); this is the number needed to earn an invite to the next Pro Tour. Europe also put two players in the top 8. China unquestionably was second, and you can make an argument they belong first: 13 in the field came from China, 11 made day two, 4 got to 30MP. In contrast, it was an up-and-down showing from players who came from Dallas: 16/33 made day two and only 4 re-qualified. In total, 24/150 players reached 30MP from regionals. Compare this to the “pros”—those players who were in Barcelona because they had 39+ Adjusted Match Points from the first two PTs of the year. There were only 34 of them, and 15 reached 30MP! I’ll be curious to see how AMP qualifiers parallel the old class of platinum pros as this organized play system continues to play out.