The Manchester GT Winter: Rankings Impact
- Charles Gould
- Feb 24
- 4 min read
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) - so when a 300+ player tournament lands, it doesn’t just hand out trophies… it shakes up the entire ladder.
The scale - adding new players en masse
Every event and weekend has the potential to add more new players, and supermajors do that more than most.
UKTC ranked players (overall):
Pre-event ranked players: 3,281
Post-event ranked players: 3,482
+201 new players added in the last week.
Manchester’s share of that growth:
Manchester roster: 306 registered players
Players who entered the UKTC rankings off the back of Manchester: 132
That’s 65.7% of all new ranked players this week coming from one weekend.
This is why Super-Majors hit different: a big event isn’t just “more points for the podium” - they inject a whole new cohort of ranked players into the ecosystem.
attend = climb, skip = slide
Already-ranked players who attended Manchester (166)
Median points gained: +86.0
Average points gained: +88.1
Median rank climb: +244.5 places
Average rank climb: +450.8 places
157/166 (94.6%) climbed the ranks
Players who did not attend (n = 3,115)
Median points gained: 0
Median rank change: -115 places
Average rank change: -93.6 places
97.0% dropped rank
This is the key lesson, by not playing events your ranking will rapidly slide as those that play improve their scores.
Podium to points
Manchester GT: Winter’s final standings were stacked:
Best General (Champion) Innes Wilson,
1st Runner Up David Gaylard,
2nd Runner Up Chris Kinnair,
and 4th Place Matt Langton
plus a huge list of undefeated Swiss runs in a deep field.
Here’s what the UKTC update looks like for the top finishers:
Player | UKTC Rank (pre) | UKTC Rank (post) | Places gained | UKTC points gained |
Innes Wilson (Best General) | 924 | 345 | +579 | +161.8 |
David Gaylard (1st Runner Up) | 356 | 165 | +191 | +161.0 |
Chris Kinnair (2nd Runner Up) | 257 | 120 | +137 | +160.2 |
Matthew Langton (4th Place) | 62 | 23 | +39 | +159.4 |
That’s the Super-Major impact in numbers: a strong weekend can catapult you into a new bracket.
The Unconquerables
Manchester GT: Winter had 9 players finish regular play at 5-0, which is absurd in a ~300 player field.
Those nine names also tell the rankings story perfectly:
Player (5–0 regular play) | UKTC Rank (pre) | UKTC Rank (post) | Places gained | UKTC points gained |
Scott Morris | 3 | 2 | +1 | +35.2 |
Ben Jones | 38 | 4 | +34 | +157.0 |
Kevin Davies | 25 | 12 | +13 | +63.3 |
Matt Langton | 62 | 23 | +39 | +159.4 |
Chris Kinnair | 257 | 120 | +137 | +160.2 |
Taff Jones | 234 | 143 | +91 | +115.7 |
Greg Chamberlain | 342 | 163 | +179 | +158.6 |
David Gaylard | 356 | 165 | +191 | +161.0 |
Innes Wilson | 924 | 345 | +579 | +161.8 |
A detail worth clocking: some top players are already on 6 results, so the results replace your weakest score. That’s why even someone as high as Scott Morris can still meaningfully gain points.
Not Just uktc
It is not just the UKTC rankings that these events impact, our events are also registered to the ITC ranking season, allowing you to gain points on the global leaderboards too.
Now What?
If you care about your UKTC standing, Manchester GT: Winter just showed us three things:
If you don’t attend, you will probably drop. (Median -115 places this update.)
If you attend a Super-Major and perform, you can climb hundreds (or thousands) of places.
UKTC events are where the biggest point opportunities live, because points scale with performance and attendance, and UKTC is running the biggest weekends on the calendar
Manchester GT: Winter was sold out.
So if you missed it and felt that rankings dip? The fix is simple:
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