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The Treaty of Rome

Posted on | July 25, 2009 | No Comments

europeanunionOver half of Europe’s nations are now members of the supranational entity, the European Union. YGO Online International takes a look at the hypotheticals to see how a one Europe representation would affect the online world rankings.

As of the time of writing, 19 of the European Union’s 27 member states are represented in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Online World Rankings. (It’s easier to list the ones that aren’t represented so here we go; Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia) Some have come close, or are very close, to breaking into the top 1,000 TP ranked duelists but for the moment, 19 is what we have to play with.

An easy way to play with statistics is then simply to add up the current TP of these 19 member states are compare. So let’s do just that.

As of the June 28th rankings, a joint European Union representation would hold 1,957,498 TP, almost two million points total. This would place this hypothetical European Union representation second in the world rankings, behind Japan. Of course, this is no great surprise seeing as second is currently held by an EU member, Germany anyway.

Other interesting things to note; Germany would provide over 50% of a European Union’s TP alone, further showcasing a dominance which, as we’ve already discussed, owes a lot to Konami’s physical presence in the nation. While Germany does have the largest population of any EU state (80,000,000 or so), it is certainly not more than half of the EU’s entire population (just under 500,000,000).

Hwever, population distribution does play a role to a certain extent. The five largest EU member states (Great Britain, Germany, Italy, France and Spain) are also the five highest ranked EU nations in the game. After that, however, things become a lot more muddled (although it also true that many of the nations have similar population size, adding a certain level of randomness the lower you go), although it should come as little surprise that 64th placed Cyprus is the third smallest nation in the Union too.

Adding the 13 non-EU European nations in the world rankings would only increase this hypothetical groupings score by 109,513 to just over 2,000,000 TP (2,067,011 to be exact), a negligible influence at best.

The conclusion, therefore, is that rather than shake up the online game, a European Union representation would only serve to stagnate it by reducing the number of nations competing while also entrenching itself in second place far more firmly than Germany has at present and all without really competing against Japan, despite doubling its TP.

Whatever the pluses and minuses of the European Union as a supranational entity, it appears its impact and overall use in the world of Yu-Gi-Oh! Online would not be very helpful at all.

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