Fun Fact of the Week #601

Over the course of the Laff-A-Lympics, there are 48 different event locations. For today's fun fact, I took the time to calculate out how many competitions took place on each continent. Since many of the competitions take place in the US, I would have expected North America to have had the most competitions! However, calculating it out, Europe is the continent that had the most competitions.

What's even more interesting is that it essentially comes down to a technicality. Russia is both in Europe and Asia. It's never said which part of Russia the events take place in, so I double-counted Asia and Europe.

South America has a surprisingly low number of competitions. The continent was only visited one time during the series. Here's the full rundown of how many times each continent is visited:

Europe - 14
North America - 13 (worth noting that 10 of these are in the US!)
Asia - 10
Africa - 4
Australia/Oceania - 3
South America - 1

If you enjoyed this stats-based fun fact, you're in luck! To celebrate the release of Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics: The Complete Series tomorrow, I'll be posting a special project I've been working on over the last couple weeks! With a series as formulaic as Laff-A-Lympics, it was hard to think of a topic for an article. I thought it would be fun to do a more non-traditional post providing basic stats for each team, including how many Laff-A-Lympics competitions were won by each team, how many events each team won, and a character breakdown of how many events each character participated in throughout the series. Objectively it's not a huge amount of info, but it took a while to calculate out, so I'm excited to share the post with you tomorrow!