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The Winter I. T. T. Recap: Podium, Awards, and story of the event.

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 exactly why they are considered one of the best teams in the world, taking down the competition in a very convincing fashion, scoring a total 477 Battle points, of a possible 600. With 26/30 game wins.


Defeating team Sigil in the final to remain the only 6-0 team at the whole event:


Björn Eriksson

Astra Militarum

Emil Söderholm

Deathwatch

Joel Larsson

Chaos Daemons

Jonathan Sleigh-johnson

T'au Empire

Jesper Unander-Scharin (c)

Necrons


1st Runner Up: Sigil


A valiant run from the 2nd place Sigil, falling only in the final hurdle after triumphing over the French favourites Team Yokai in round 5. Sigil had one of the hardest strength of schedules in the entire event:


Mickey Baird-Parker

Adeptus Custodes

Samuel Martin

Adeptus Mechanicus

Vincent Stein

Orks

Chris Cho

Space Marines (Astartes)

Gustavo Jose Branco Varandas de Sousa (c)

Astra Militarum


2nd Runner Up: Welsh Rare Bitz


A fantastic run from the Welsh here, narrowily missing out from the top cut by a single point in their only drawn round.

Fernando Soriano

Tau Empire

Joshua Townley

Astra Militarum

Tom Green

Orks

Liam Keane (c)

Genestealer Cults

Kev Hughes

Blood Angels


The story of the event


Winter ITT was a reminder of what makes UKTC super-events feel different: when you’ve got over 150 teams (750+ players) in the room, you don’t “get away with it.”

You don’t win on vibes, faction hype, or one hot pairing. You win by stacking two days of clean fundamentals, scoring, denial, and knowing exactly when to take the safe points and when to risk the push for more.


At this scale, the story isn’t just who hits the ceiling, it’s who avoids the floor. Teams 40k has some brutal moments: one bad individual result doesn’t just lose a game, it warps the whole round. And Winter ITT quantified that pressure perfectly. Across Swiss play (Rounds 1–5), the event produced:


  • 203 dead-even 10–10 draws (10.7% of all games)

  • 181 games decided by a single 2-point step (9.5%), the smallest possible margin in the 0–20 system.

  • 545 games decided by 4 points or fewer (12-8) (28.7%)

  • 1,029 games decided by 10 points or fewer (14-6) (54.2%)

  • 1,024 games where someone scored 5 points or fewer (15-5) (53.9%)

  • 739 games with a 17+ score on one side (38.9%)

  • 377 perfect 20–0s (19.8%) — nearly one in five games hit the absolute max.


That mix is telling, a huge volume of tight games and a huge volume of catastrophic swings is exactly why Winter ITT feels like a pressure cooker. It’s not one narrative, it’s two happening at once: most tables grinding out inches, while a few favourable pairings go for the 20–0 throat.


And the faction picture told the same story. The field converged hard: the top 5 most-played factions accounted for 33.7% of all players, and the top 10 made up 56.3%. But popularity didn’t automatically equal performance, the weekend rewarded factions that could print points reliably and threaten ceiling results when the pairing was right:


  • Necrons were both the most played and the most convincing big-sample winner: 63.2% win rate, 11.85 average points, and a strong ability to avoid disasters.

  • Adeptus Custodes matched them on “teams reliability”: 62.2% win rate and 11.48 average points.

  • Chaos Daemons and Blood Angels brought the push potential, with Daemons hitting 17+ in 27.1% of their games, and Blood Angels leading the event at 31.1%.

  • Meanwhile, some staples were simply fine: Astra Militarum sat at 52.7%, while Space Marines (Astartes) landed basically dead even at 50.8%, present everywhere, but not defining the weekend.


And at the sharp end of the pain scale, Winter ITT was unforgiving: Votann (40.4%), World Eaters (41.4%), Chaos Space Marines (42.7%), and Adepta Sororitas (43.0%) all had rough big-sample weekends.


That’s the Winter ITT story in numbers: massive scale, constant pressure, and a meta that didn’t just “show up” ... it got stress-tested. This is why the event creates so much buzz every time: it generates real narratives, real data, and real stakes, and it’s exactly why people scramble for tickets when the next UKTC big weekend goes live.


Sportsmanship shout-outs


We also want to recognise a group of players who—despite not winning Best Sports—received exemplary sportsmanship scores from their opponents across the weekend. These are exactly the kinds of competitors who make events better for everyone, and they deserve to be highlighted.


Special thanks and recognition to:

  • Adam Wright

  • Alex Ede

  • Alex Wilkins

  • Christopher Chedotal

  • Daniel Berris

  • Daniel Latham

  • Darren Chapman

  • David Boyle

  • Ed Benson

  • Edward Shilcof

  • Gareth Lane

  • Gerard Purcell

  • Greg Blackburn

  • Howard Perry

  • Ian Picker

  • Ian Tesh

  • Jack Allen

  • Jack Green

  • Jamie Buckley

  • Jeremy Hill

  • Joel Hansson

  • John Swallow

  • Josh Kneale

  • Kevin Spencer

  • Liam Fenn

  • Liam Royle

  • Louis Ballington

  • Luca Kordbache

  • Luke Neill

  • Mark Whetton

  • martin brown

  • Matthew Jemmerson

  • Matthew Matt Williams

  • Max Berry

  • Michael Duff

  • Mike Hutchinson

  • Nic Verdino

  • Phil GC

  • Rees Darvill

  • Reiss Jarvis

  • Ross Wilson Jennings

  • Sam Dickinson

  • Sam Edmonds

  • Tony House-Corradine

  • Will Tiddy



We strongly encourage all attendees to complete the sportsmanship nomination/complaints form at the end of each round. It directly helps us recognise more of the players who consistently deliver great games—and it helps us maintain the standard we all want UKTC events to represent.


Award winners



And now, please digitally put your hands together for our award winners:


  • Best Team — Veizla

  • Best Painted Army — Ben Martin

  • 1st Runner Up — Sigil

  • 2nd Runner Up — Welsh Rare Bitz


Best Team Brackets

  • Best Team (Bracket 3 wins) — 6 ++

  • Best Team (Bracket 2 wins) — Wessex Wyverns

  • Best Team (Bracket 1 win) — Carnage Chaos


Sports & Hobby

  • Most Sporting Player — Ben Raven

  • Best Painted Unit — Lewis Johnston

  • Best Painted Single Mini — Mark Whetton


Other

  • Wooden Spoon — LWG - Big puns never Tire


See you at the next one

Coming up we have a range of events, with the next international teams tournament being the I. T. T. Spring. And for singles we have the Manchester GT: Winter and Windsor GT... the catch is they are all SOLD OUT.


You can sign up for the waitlist today, or to ensure you don't miss out, grab your ticket to one of our other upcoming events now.





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