With pairings now live for the first round of the Windsor Super-Major 2026 the hype is real, only a few days to go until nearly 250 competitors descend and start competing for the first victory in the UKTCs latest new event! This article is going to look at a few players that I have picked to keep an eye on and expect to be seeing at the top tables this weekend. First lets take a quick reminder of the overall faction spread: At a Glance Space marines and Necrons are the most

List submissions are locked and revealed now for the upcoming Windsor Super-Major, the first of many new debut events for the UKTC 2026 season. We can take a first look at what people have brought and how the overall meta is shaping up. With nearly 250 players signed up and most having submitted their factions we get a good first look. At a Glance Space Marines remain the most popular faction, dominating the field as their own faction - accounting for over 20% of the field wh

The Ladder Moves Constantly Manchester GT: Winter was a proper Super-Major weekend: 306 players , 29 factions , playing over our 7 round format that crowned Innes Wilson as our back-to-back champion for UKTC events. This post takes a look at the impacts these results have had on the UKTC rankings. UKTC rankings are a summary of your season, reported on BCP. They are built from your top 6  event results, with points being driven by placing + wins + event size  (BCP scoring) -

With list submission locked for the Manchester 40K Winter GT, we can take a first look at the roster and the story about what players expect to be good. Currently there are 306 Players with only a small handful not having submitted a list - means we can get a pretty good look at how the meta is shaping up. The big picture First up, let's take a look at the whole field. Here’s the split by the macro factions buckets: Faction Players Share % Imperium 122 40.4 Xenos 97 32.1 Cha

Winter ITT is the kind of event that exposes everything. With 150+ teams  in the room and 1,885 individual games  played over the weekend, you don’t “ride” a good matchup or sneak through on reputation, you have to keep producing results round after round. And at the very top of that pressure cooker, Veizla  didn’t just win - they dominated . They finished as the only 6–0 team  at the entire event, beating Team Sigil  in the final. The Veizla headline numbers Veizla’s weekend

Winter ITT didn’t just hand out a trophy. It rewrote the UKTC National Team Rankings . When an event is this big, the rankings don’t move politely. They surge . Teams that showed up and scored points didn’t just climb, they flew up the ladder. And the teams that didn’t attend didn’t “stand still”… they got overtaken in bulk. Here’s what the numbers say. The headline stats: Teams now ranked:   203 Teams with an Autumn ITT result:   115 Teams with a Winter ITT result:   152 Tea

The WINTER INTERNATIONAL TEAM TOURNAMENT has concluded, and what an event it was! The largest event in the world had everything that we love about teams 40k: camaraderie, competition, and most importantly some of the best looking models I have ever seen! This post will be short on words, as pictures tell the story in no way that I ever could - so let's take a look at some of the highlights of the weekend. Best Painted Army - Ben Martin. A truly iconic necron scheme, incredib

The WINTER INTERNATIONAL TEAM TOURNAMENT has concluded, with the visiting Swedes claiming the trophy at the BIGGEST team event in the world. A weekend full of memories, fun, and friendship. Not to mention the highest level of competitive teams 40k, over 1885 individual games were played across as more than 150 teams battled it out. This post is going to dive into the stats behind the results and how the factions performed. Representation: what Teams picked The field was wide,

A sincere thank you to everyone who attended the Winter I. T. T. this weekend, and congratulations to all our winners. It was a fantastic continuance of the UKTC Teams season, and we hope the rest of the year’s events continue to showcase such excellent standards of sportsmanship, gameplay, and camraderie. The biggest teams event in the world delivered some of the best names and moments that simply can't be matched. Best Team: Veizla — Sweden The travelling Swedes showcased e

Lists for The UKTC Winter International Teams Tournament (ITT) are now live, with list checking underway. Today we are going to take a first look at the data, what it tells us and how the meta at the event is going to be shaken up. With 158 registered teams, this event boasts a 790 total player sign up, making it the biggest teams event in the world. The first look for this gives us a clear and interesting read of what is popular. At a glance, the faction distribution across

A sincere thank you to everyone who attended Nottingham this weekend, and congratulations to all our winners. It was a fantastic start to 2026, and we hope the rest of the year’s events build on the same energy, sportsmanship, and quality of games that made Nottingham such a standout. With a huge field, Nottingham delivered exactly what a UKTC super-major should. Best General: Innes Wilson — Space Marines (Astartes) Best General – Innes Wilson capped off an exceptional weeken

1) Faction representation: what the room looked like Top 10 factions by representation (players with recorded games): Faction Players Share of field Space Marines (Astartes) 32 9.4% Blood Angels 24 7.0% Chaos Daemons 20 5.9% Aeldari 19 5.6% Astra Militarum 17 5.0% Emperor’s Children 16 4.7% Dark Angels 16 4.7% Space Wolves 15 4.4% Orks 15 4.4% Death Guard 15 4.4% This was not a “two-faction meta.” It was wide and that makes conversions and top-table presence far more meaningf

The NOTTINGHAM 40K SUPER-MAJOR has been and gone, with 355 players in the field, it acted like a rankings gravity well: it pulled attendees up the ladder and pushed some non-attendees down. Below is a data-led breakdown of what changed, why it changed, and what it means if you care about your UKTC position (or want to start climbing fast). The headline numbers Using the rankings snapshot before Nottingham and the updated snapshot after Nottingham: Players previously on the ra

Introduction Greetings to all Warhammer enthusiasts and strategists! Welcome back to another blog post with one of our deep dive into the...