And the final results are in!!
Our apologies for the long wait - our countries features are not quite worked out yet, so Pietro worked for a day or two to semi manually determine all these numbers, and then I worked to make the leaderboards! 😄
We had a total of 398 catchers join us this year!! That's more than double compared to Catchathon 2017 💜 And here's the Top 20 catchers, by research movies analyzed!!
![](https://blog.hcinst.org/content/images/2023/02/Copy-of-Copy-of-catchathon-2018-countries-leaderboards.png)
42 teams competed this year, compared to 23 teams in 2017! Here's the Top 20 teams by research movies:
![](https://blog.hcinst.org/content/images/2023/02/20-teams.png)
And here's how countries did!
Note: Your contributions were counted towards a country if you told us via the google form which one. If not, then your score was included in the "Earth"!
![](https://blog.hcinst.org/content/images/2023/02/countries-leaderboards.png)
During the Golden Hour (17-18:00UTC, September 21), which was streamed live (replay it here ), here's how countries did...
![](https://blog.hcinst.org/content/images/2023/02/Golden-Hour.png)
Note: We included Austria's own Golden Hour that they held at a different time (10-11:00 UTC, September 21) into the results above. Their Golden Hour was also streamed live (and attended by Pietro) and you can replay it here.
A number of countries worked hard to max out on contributions in the last hour of the catchathon, especially Nigeria, who were rallying their catchers & buying more data until the last minute! Here's how countries did in the last hour of the event:
![](https://blog.hcinst.org/content/images/2023/02/Final-Hour.png)
And finally, here's more fun info on the countries that participated!
![](https://blog.hcinst.org/content/images/2023/02/COuntries-by-catchers.png)
![](https://blog.hcinst.org/content/images/2023/02/Movies-per-catcher.png)
Way to go Israel with 998 movies per (the one and only!) catcher! Right behind are two other "I's" - Ireland & Iran.
Thank you all again for such an exhilarating and inspiring catchathon this year - for standing together as a planet, breaking Stall Catchers, records and fighting Alzheimer's together! 💜
Final Catchathon 2018 infographic & update on the progress on the new dataset are coming next! Stay tuned!
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