Battlegrounds Hack

[Tyler Bannowsky]

Thetable below contains a list of all candidates in U.S. House battlegrounds in 2024. Major party candidates will not appear here until that primary is complete. The table is fully searchable by candidate, party and candidacy status. Depending on the size of your screen, you'll either see a menu to the left of the table or an arrow at the top right corner, which you can use to select a state.

Vulnerable Democratic incumbents receive campaign support through the DCCC's Frontline program. This chart lists each district that the DCCC has announced it will seek to defend via the Frontline program in 2024, alongside the margin of victory in each district in the 2022 congressional elections.[2][3]

Candidates participating in the Red to Blue program receive financial and organizational support. Participation in the program requires that a candidate meet certain fundraising and organizational goals. This chart lists each candidate that the DCCC has announced it will support via the Red to Blue program in 2024, alongside the margin of victory in each district in the 2022 congressional elections.[4] Past results in Alabama are not included for races that took place before 2023 redistricting.

On March 13, 2023, the NRCC released an initial list of 37 Democratically-held districts it would target in the 2024 elections. The table below lists the target districts and incumbents leading up to the 2024 elections, as well as 2022 margins of victory in those districts.[5]

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To better understand what tech talent will matter most in the next three to five years, we spoke with hundreds of global CIOs, analyzed talent developments over two years across three global markets, and reviewed more than 30 cross-cutting tech trends. We then mapped relevant skills and roles to the most significant emerging tech trends and business needs. For example, given the increasing importance of using data to make better and faster decisions, the ability to rapidly build infrastructure and architecture for data (data-engineer skills) is likely to become more of a bottleneck than the ability to generate insights (data-scientist skills).

Through this analysis, we identified about 4,000 tech skills, which we broke down into seven battlegrounds, or clusters of need. (Note: while cultural and change-management aspects, including social and emotional skills, are also important, our research honed in on tech skills only).

Significant skills gaps in these seven areas already exist, and we expect them to become more severe over time. Executives expect skills mismatches in functions that have already started adopting automation and AI technologies, according to McKinsey Global Institute analysis.The largest percentage of survey respondents (more than 30 percent) ranked data analytics, IT, mobile, and web design as the skills with the highest expectation of a mismatch over the next three years.

Extensive skills gaps paired with an inability to attract top talent predisposes this archetype to focus on upskilling and reskilling existing employees. Digital learning platforms can help to make training scalable, applicable across locations, and also feasible during COVID-19 restrictions.

This archetype in general still has a large tech-skills gap, especially in quantity of skills, with a slightly smaller gap in quality of skills. In addition to reskilling employees, the focus is on hiring new tech talent, though that can prove to be a challenge.

According to the World Economic Forum, around 54 percent of all employees will need reskilling and upskilling by 2022. Of these, 35 percent will require up to six months of training, 9 percent will need six to 12 months, and 10 percent more than a year.8The future of jobs report 2018, World Economic Forum, September 2018, weforum.org. The best programs will focus on the following practices.

Reskilling is cheaper than hiring. While reskilling an internal employee may cost $20,000 or less, the cost of hiring often costs $30,000 for recruitment alone, in addition to onboarding training. And new hires are two to three times more likely to then leave.9Josh Bersin, Rethinking the build vs. buy approach to talent, General Assembly and Whiteboard Advisors, October 2019, joshbersin.com. Large tech players understand this and often opt to invest more significantly in reskilling their workforce.

A learning journey is a set of connected learning experiences that drive sustained performance improvements (exhibit). Learning journeys have been highly effective in closing skills gaps, as they blend a variety of different training formats, such as digital, cohort-based, or on-the job learning.

COVID-19 has accelerated the full digitization of all learning-journey components. These dynamics not only make it possible to scale learning efforts more cost effectively but also offer greater personalization for learners.

For example, a leading US insurer identified 15 to 20 critical talent pools among its more than 17,000-strong workforce, to determine the potential of displaced individuals to be reskilled and redeployed. The insurer designed learning journeys to upskill and reskill current roles to the roles of the future, such as the business translator. This learning-journey approach made it possible to reskill or redeploy 40 percent of the overall workforce.

Skills adjacency is defined as the proximity between the skills required for two different jobs. Among students at Udacity,1McKinsey has a nonexclusive partnership with Udacity. a for-profit educational organization offering online technology courses, 67 percent showed high skills adjacency between their previous job and the one they found after completing their courses. Interestingly, however, a significant 33 percent found a new job with only medium or low skills adjacency, indicating that reskilling someone from a nontech role to a tech role can succeed (exhibit).2Udacity data analysis, nonenterprise, private customers, n = 463, August 2020.

The authors wish to thank the team of Jutta Bodem-Schrtgens, Florent Erbar, Teresa Keller, Anna Lena Robra, Hannah Mayer, Eileen Ralenberg, Michael Scherbela, Surbhi Sikka, and Thaksan Sothinathan for their ongoing support and drive.

The authors also wish to thank Sapana Agrawal, Kerstin Balka, Sven Blumberg, Andrea Del Miglio, Anusha Dhasarathy, Vito Di Leo, Amadeo Di Lodovico, Karel Drner, Desiree El Chebeir, Peter Jacobs, Shweta Juneja, Naufal Khan, Harald Kube, Mahir Nayfeh, Angelika Reich, Wolf Richter, Scott Rutherford, Henning Soller, Gisa Springer, Richard Steele, and Steve van Kuiken for their contributions to this article.

Battlegrounds are instanced areas used for player versus player combat (PvP). In them players can participate in team PvP, struggling for victory in one of a number of battlegrounds against a similarly capable team of players from the opposite faction. Battlegrounds are the main way for players to earn honor points, used to purchase PvP rewards. Players can also gain experience points through participating in battlegrounds, making them a viable option for leveling. The first battlegrounds become available at level 10, with new battlegrounds becoming available as the player levels. Players can queue for battlegrounds through the PvP interface.

Battlegrounds can also be experienced as rated battlegrounds or War Games. Rated battlegrounds are fought between two highly-organized teams of dedicated players, offering additional rewards in the form of conquest points, as well as the chance to acquire a personal and team rating, and rise to the top of the regional PvP ladders. War Games offer a similar experience, but with no rewards or rating adjustments involved, giving organized players a chance to play just for fun against a team of their choice. These types of battleground often vary slightly in their rulesets - see those pages for information. PvP zones are also very similar to battlegrounds, sharing many of the basic features.

There are a number of battlegrounds in World of Warcraft. Each has its own design, location, and context, as well as its own rules, objectives and special objects. Battlegrounds range from small encounters of 10 players to a side, to large-scale conflicts featuring 80 players and dozens of NPCs. Battlegrounds are categorized as capture the flag matches, resource races featuring multiple nodes, or general warfare involving the attrition of reinforcements and elimination of enemy objectives. Different battlegrounds may focus on individuals carrying mobile objectives, squads holding fixed objectives, pilots operating siege vehicles, or whole raids killing NPCs, as well as countering those actions by the enemy. Two things all battlegrounds have in common are player versus player combat, and the necessity for teamwork and coordination to achieve victory.

Battlegrounds represent major staging posts in the ongoing conflict between the Alliance and the Horde. Fighting for the rights to valuable resources, access to powerful technologies or control of strategic ground, these battles rage endlessly. Each faction struggles to assert their dominance in these battlegrounds in the name of their faction and for personal honor, gaining rank and standing among their allies as a result of their actions on the field. Those who demonstrate their bravery and prowess will be rewarded handsomely, with the most powerful gear and weapons in their faction's armories.

The two initial battleground areas, Alterac Valley and Warsong Gulch, went live June 7th, 2005. Arathi Basin was added to the list in Patch 1.7 on September 13th, 2005. A fourth battleground, named Eye of the Storm, was released with The Burning Crusade. A fifth battleground, the Strand of the Ancients, was added in Wrath of the Lich King but later removed in Battle for Azeroth. The sixth battleground, the Isle of Conquest, was added in Patch 3.2 on August 4th, 2009. Two new battlegrounds, Battle for Gilneas and Twin Peaks, were added with the launch of the third expansion, Cataclysm. Mists of Pandaria introduced Temple of Kotmogu and Silvershard Mines, as well as Deepwind Gorge in patch 5.3. The Seething Shore was introduced in patch 7.3.5 in order to conclude the story arc of Legion and introduce the one of Battle for Azeroth.

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