Last year, we blogged about "The Spreadsheet" and talked a bit about Kevin's tireless and unrelenting quest to provide this invaluable tool to the fan community. Working selflessly & quietly, Kevin has continued to update & add to this amazing set of links including side shows. At some point last night, Kevin reports that the spreadsheet has surpassed the absolutely incredible goal of 1,000,000 downloads. All of that in less than three years. Stunning.

To give you an idea of how many downloads are done from the spreadsheet, and how many fans use it: As of Noon today, the download count was already up to 1,001,032.

Kevin says:

"Honestly, I can't believe the amount of time I've put into it, myself!
This seemed like such a simple idea back when it all started, but has
since blossomed into a full-time hobby. It is an extremely rewarding
use of my time, though, knowing how many people use it and appreciate
the efforts I put into it.

Another cool stats I just came across on mediafire's statistics page
is that links from the spreadsheet have been downloaded from 10
different countries. Here's the list (in order of amount of bandwidth
used):

1. U.S.
2. Canada
3. U.K.
4. Czech Republic
5. Germany
6. Australia
7. Spain
8. China
9. Poland
10. Israel

We will catch up with @hoydog23 in the coming weeks for a follow up to the blog piece from last year with some furthur information, stats and looking to the future.

So raise a virtual glass (or real one!) and let's toast to Kevin and his hard work!

And while you are at it...why not fetch a show you've been dying to hear? The Almighty Spreadsheet

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