This topic deserves more posts.
- In the last two editions, there have been 7 different mode winners! Only Neo has won two modes, with BM 2022 and GP 2022. For the vast majority of CDX history, any given combination of two consecutive editions had 4 different mode winners. The exceptions are 2003/2004 with 5 (2 mode winners in 2003 and 3 in 2004 with no overlap), 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 with 3 each (extreme dominance by Neo and Kartie interrupted by BM wins for Harold in 2006 and Drew in 2008), 2012/2013 and 2013/2014 with 5 each (4 different mode winners in 2013), and 2019/2021 with 6 (4 different mode winners in 2021, with only Geo having won a mode in 2019).
- The last 5(!) GP events (2017 - 2022) have been won by 5 different players. For comparison, there were only three distinct GP winners in 2006 - 2016, and 6 in total if you extend that to 2002 - 2016. The longest such streak among all modes is 6 different winners in 6 consecutive editions for BM 2004 - 2009. This ongoing GP streak is the record in the international era, tied with BM 2013 - 2017. TT and MR have each had streaks of 3 at various points, but nothing longer. The most recent ones are TT 2018 - 2021 and MR 2019 - 2022 (and is thus ongoing).
- Within the last two editions, three countries qualified to Top 16 for the first time: Ireland in 2021 (all modes), and Australia and Norway in 2022 (TT and BM respectively). Furthermore, Ireland also reached Top 8 for the first time (TT 2021), and Japan reached Top 4 for the first time (GP 2022). Finally, the Netherlands obtained their first gold medal (TT 2021), becoming only the fourth country to do so after France, USA, and UK.
- Two countries were represented for the first time within the last two editions: Poland in 2021 and Croatia in 2022.
- 2022 was the first championship ever with representation from South America, Asia, and Oceania all in one edition. With all of these continents qualifying in at least one mode, this led to some other firsts in the KO stages: the first Top 16 featuring players from 5 continents (TT with 12 Europeans + Takashi, Sumner, GAS, and Lafungo), the first KO stage match between North and South America (Lafungo vs GAS in GP LR2), and the first KO stage match not involving Europe or North America (Takashi vs Kasmo in BM Lower Eighths). This last match was particularly noteworthy, as it featured two Japanese players facing off against each other in Top 8, and doing so at the first possible opportunity, as this was the first 2P mode ever with two Japanese entrants!
- With the introduction of TT barrages in 2021, Mark became the first person to qualify for TT Top 16 despite not finishing in the Top 16 for group stage (#17). Sumner and Zarkov then one-upped this in 2022 by qualifying for Top 16 after finishing #18 and #19 in group stage respectively. On the other side of the coin, in 2021 MVH became the first person to fail to qualify for TT Top 16 despite finishing in the Top 16 for group stage (#7!).
- In 2022, Barrage King Zarkov tied his record of playing 6 barrages in a single CDM (initially set in 2019), although this no longer represents the maximum possible barrages played. Zarkov missed MR Q1 (by qualifying directly to Q2 as #15) and GP Q2 (by losing in Q1 to Mike Hulscher). There was at least one major challenger to the throne in 2022, as Sumner played 5 barrages (having not played BM and missing out on GP Q1 due to finishing #14).
- In 2021, not only did FF qualify for the first time in his 13th participation, but he did so twice and even won a KO stage match! He first qualified in BM and won 5-1 against Sjors in the Lower Bracket, then qualified again the next day in MR.