Talk:Sophie and Fitz/@comment-37879183-20190519014344

So does everyone hold a Winnowing Gala? So almost everyone who registers for the match holds them. Let's break it down.

Someone has 500 matches. For each list, you hold one Gala, generally.

Let's estimate that 4/5 people who register for the match hold them (honestly, it's probably a lot more).

Let's say that out of those 400 people, not all of them pick up all their lists.

Let's say they pick up an average of 2 lists (Most elves find their match on their first list, but if I were them I'd at least pick up 3 lists to figure out my full list of contenders, although I'd probably marry someone on my first list).

That gives us 800 Winnowing Galas that any given person is invited to. Let's say they only attend 1/4 of the Galas they're invited to.

That still has them attending 200 Winnowing Galas. And let's say they're all spaced out over a span of 10 years. They'd attend an average of 1.6 a month.

And that's on the lowest end possible. If they all held 5 Winnowing Galas each and got their lists one month apart and held them each time they got a list and everyone attended, they'd end up attending 3.33 per night, which obviously wouldn't happen. Anyways, imagine attending a Winnowing Gala every 20 or so days.