I’m playing with Microsoft MapPoint. It is pretty awesome, except for the fact that some smaller cities don’t register. Anyway, I finished compiling the location of all fans of ANZ Champship teams on bebo, blogger, LiveJournal and LiveJournal clones. Interest in this particular competition is small compared to the NRL, AFL and A-League. For a few people, fans didn’t list a city which makes getting an accurate idea of where fans are difficult. Two cities didn’t appear as they were really, really rural so they were excluded. I took this data and the output was the following map.
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Australia Test by City
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2 |
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1 |
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Adelaide Thunderbirds |
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Melbourne Vixens |
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New South Wales Swifts (Sydney Swifts) |
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Northern Mystics |
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Southern Steel |
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Sydney Swifts |
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The map has that limited perspective because there were no Queensland based fans. That includes people who just listed state, not city. The same situation existed for Western Australia, Tasmania, the ACT and Northern Territory.
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New Zealand has several professional sports teams that compete in Australian and New Zealand based leagues. The leagues that are involved with include the the A-League, ANZ Championship, National Rugby League, and Super 14. The teams include Wellington Phoenix, Northern Mystics, Southern Steel, Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic, Canterbury Crusaders, and New Zealand Warriors. The map below only includes bebo and blogger users who list the team as an interest and list a city in New Zealand as their place of residence. (I haven’t done LiveJournal and there were no fans on LiveJournal’s clones.) The city communities involved are really small compared to some of their Australian peers. Brisbane has 121 compared to Auckland’s 11. To be fair though, Auckland had fans of Australian based teams and if those were included, they’d be at 22 instead of 11. (Those 11 fans are all NRL fans of the following teams: Brisbane Broncos, Canberra Raiders, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Gold Coast Titans.
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New Zealand
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18 |
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4 |
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1 |
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Wellington Phoenix |
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Northern Mystics |
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Southern Steel |
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Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic |
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Canterbury Crusaders |
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New Zealand Warriors |
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