Halfway to our Report Goal

Hello Trackers!

As we approach the final full week before Christmas I’ve got some good news…and some bad news. First, the good news:

We have crossed over the halfway point to our goal. As of late this morning, we are over 500 million tracker reports so far this season.

This is historic. We have never had so much good information before. Our analysts are busy stuffing the database Santa will use when he takes flight with information he’s never had before. If he left right now, he would have roughly ten times the amount of current information than he has ever had in the past.

If we were to stop everything right now, we’d have set a record and Santa would be flying more prepared than ever before. Congratulations and THANK YOU.

And, now the bad news:

We have crossed over the halfway point to our goal.

500 million is only half of what Santa says that we need. And it has taken us all year to get to this part. That leaves us just 12 days to get the other half billion.

Can it be done?

Well, we know that it always comes down to the last two weeks. Every year. But this year is different because we’re chasing a report goal, not an elf goal.

How many elves do we have?

In all five sectors we now claim a total of more than 46 million elves.

Doing straight math, if those 46 million elves just did about 11 reports EACH in our last 12 days, we’d meet the goal.

But that’s a really dumb way to think about it.

We’re going to get millions of new elves in the next 12 days. And those elves are going to give us more reports than just 11 reports, right?

So, relax. Listen to your elf supervisor. Send in the reports he or she is asking for. Be ready to report on something new once Santa takes flight. We’ll make that goal, don’t you worry.

Now, on a topic entirely different.

You might hear some weird stuff over the next 12 days about Santa’s sleigh. Don’t freak over it. It doesn’t concern us, okay. Let’s keep our eye on Santa and getting our job done in helping him get around the world no matter he flies, alright?

About this Elf: Elf Roger Star

Roger is an experienced sleigh pilot, designer and flight engineer who has worked the past 42 years as a flight supervisor in the Tracking Department at the North Pole. Previous to that Roger served as a designer in the Research and Development Department during the crucial years of 1947-1974, an era known for breakout designs in Santa’s sleigh that broke long standing speed records. Roger was the lead designer of Santa’s 1968 sleigh, famous for surviving a brutal blizzard in Bavaria. Elf Roger led the tracker elf as International Director of Santa Trackers from its inception as a pilot program in 2016 until 2023. He is now director of North Pole Flight Command.