Talk:Tournaments/@comment-93.84.182.96-20180814083059/@comment-30967537-20180814095218

There are no recorded WTTT participation statistics that I know of. There were usually about 100 people in group A which was the top 0.1% of players meaning that there were about 100,000 WTTT participants. But participation has very much depended on the events and cars involved and whether or not players have those cars e.g. it dropped drastically earlier this year when they had the Daytona NASCAR event featuring the new NASCARs which a lot of players didn't have, I think the same thing happened with the Formula E cars. Also, participation in the separate events varied widely, I remember last year a Mount Panorama event which had about 160,000 participants.

The new format will probably be closer to the recent one-off TT events which, based on the number of people in group A, have attracted far greater participation in excess of 200,000+ players. Maybe they were the test-runs to see if players enjoyed them which, based on participation, they did. And don't forget that with the new WTTT format having a loaned car, a different reward structure and Gold for all participants there are likely to be more people taking part. I reckon participation will climb to around 300,000 which means all the groups will be larger.

The top players will most likely be the same as those in the old WTTT i.e. good RR3 drivers who can afford to upgrade the top car. But those lower down will now get those important Gold rewards, not so much but maybe enough to incentivise/allow them to invest in acquiring better cars and upgrading them.

Remember, this is all about increasing participation which drives FM's advertising revenue.