- Team Europe has been improving their performance little by little every year, starting with a 13-17 in 2015, improving to 14-16 in 2016, 16-14 in 2017, 17-13 in 2018, and now 18-12 in 2019. 30-0 Team Europe in 2031? No other team has managed any similarly consistent improvements.
- Team UK is the only team to have never made playoffs amongst the ones with 4+ participations in the last 5 years. They also haven't been able to match, let alone beat their best record of 14-16 set in 2016, so there aren't many signs of this changing anytime soon. :(
- Spain had a very polarized performance in 2019, with the best SM in the tournament (10-2, with the second best only reaching 8-4), but their oldgens tied for 2nd worst across the board (6-12, only second to Greece's 5-13). US Northeast takes the record for best oldgens (13-5), while Greece unfortunately also takes the record for worst SM (2-10).
- In 2015 US Central managed to win 17 games and place themselves above US East, as they only managed 16. Since then, the top 2 US teams in round 1 have always been Northeast and West, with all of Central, Metro, Midwest, and South failing to outright outperform them despite occasionally achieving some ties. 2019 has not changed this statistic, with South only managing to tie West. While we're talking about US teams, all four of them managed to repeat or improve their records from 2018 to 2019 - could we see 4 US teams make top 8 next year?
- If the last game of the round, Vore Gidal vs Valentine, went the other way, then we wouldn't have had a single team repeat their record from 2018 - but since Vore Gidal won, both Oceania and US West matched their exact records from 2018 (17-13 and 16-14 respectively).
- Many great players were eliminated in this Round 1, but it looks like the GSC fans will not lose out on much: the bottom 7 teams combined for a miserable total 4-17 in the tier, a complete outlier from all the other tiers, which were all in the range of 8-13 to 10-11. (Can't include the 9th place in the calculations because it will only be decided after the tiebreakers.)