This page documents the history of the bi-annual GA Cup, an article improvement event for editors of Wikipedia. The competition began in 2014 as a means to help reduce the backlog of good article nominations. The first ran from October 1, 2014 - March 28, 2015, and had 49 participants at the start of Round 1. A rule change implemented in the middle of this round led the judges to allow all participants who reviewed at least one article to advance to Round 2. The winner of this Cup was Jaguar. The second Cup ran from July 1, 2015 until October 29, 2015, and was expanded to include good article reassessments. The second Cup also had fewer participants than the inaugural contest, with only 35 participants at the start of Round 1. The winner for this Cup was Zwerg Nase. The third Cup ran from March 1, 2016 to June 30, 2016, and had contestants earning more points than ever. The winner for this Cup was Sainsf. Throughout all of these contests, the primary key to success was reviewing older nominations that had been languishing for months on the nominations list. The fourth Cup began November 1, 2016 and ended April 1, 2017. Shearonink took first place. Not only did the review older nominations, but tended to outnumber competitors in the quantity of reviews. |