Some simple stats on Tromso Olympiad

At the Tromso Olympiad , the women's section yields fewer surprises than in the open section. In the top 50 teams, most of the teams performed very much in keeping with their seeding rankings. As an example, 14 teams earned final standings just one notch above or below their seeding rankings. (±1=14) . What’s more interesting, we arrive at this pattern: ±0=3 ; ±2=3 ; ±3=3 ; ±4 =3; ±5=3; ±6=3. Taken together, these true-to-prediction results account for 32/50 or 64% of the top 50 teams.

Hungary performed badly and landed on the 45^th slot despite a high seeding ranking of 13. On the other hand, three teams performed 20+ over their low ranking: Paraguay ( 49/75 =+26 ), Egypt ( 37/59 = +22) while Tajikistan is even better : 50/83 = +33.