The Winter I. T. T.: Rankings Impact
- Charles Gould
- Feb 5
- 4 min read
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
Teams who attended both Autumn + Winter: 64
New teams added to the ladder by Winter ITT alone: 88 (that’s 43% of the entire current rankings list)
Winter didn’t just “add a result.” It expanded the scene.
If you weren’t there, you didn’t just miss points, you got pushed down by an entire new layer of teams entering the season.
How the ranking score makes attendance matter (a lot)
The national ladder is driven by your event results from across the teams series.
Crucially:
Scores per individual event are capped
A no-show is always worse than attending.
That means there’s a hard ceiling on what you can do if you skip a super-major:
If you’re chasing the sharp end of the rankings, you don’t get to “pick and choose” any more. The math won’t let you.
The Top 10 after Winter ITT
Every team in the current Top 10 has perfect attendance so far, Autumn + Winter. That’s the new baseline.
Rank | Team | Total BP | Autumn Place | Winter Place |
1 | Team Sigil | 691 | 6 | 2 |
2 | Fire and Dice - Targaryen | 651 | 4 | 6 |
3 | Warmasters | 676 | 9 | 5 |
4 | Mind Goblins | 680 | 5 | 12 |
5 | Crow Team Six | 630 | 3 | 19 |
6 | [REDACTED] | 604 | 12 | 16 |
7 | DeadRedGaming | 645 | 15 | 20 |
8 | Carnage | 599 | 20 | 17 |
9 | Vanguard Tactics | 642 | 33 | 4 |
10 | Carnage Behemoth | 593 | 18 | 23 |
Two things jump out:
The title race is already gated by attendance.
Tie-break pressure is real. The second metric after placing is battle points, and that has already decided the placing for over 20 tie breaks already.
Winter ITT Champions: Veizla
Let’s celebrate the Winter ITT winners properly: Veizla took the Winter ITT title, and did it with a statement - 412 battle points, the top Winter total in the dataset.
Here’s the top end of Winter ITT and where it lands them nationally:
Winter Place | Team | Winter BP | Current Rank |
1 | Veizla | 412 | 20 |
2 | Team Sigil | 349 | 1 |
3 | Welsh Rare Bitz | 390 | 21 |
4 | Vanguard Tactics | 363 | 9 |
5 | Warmasters | 357 | 3 |
And here’s the brutal (and motivating) bit:
Even winning Winter ITT only gets you to #20 overall if you missed Autumn. That’s not a knock on Veizla - it’s proof that the overall race is now a season-long grind, and every super-major weekend matters.
That is the reason I have pointed it out so much, if you don't play your ranking will only get more and more limited.
Among the 115 teams ranked after Autumn ITT:
64 attended Winter
51 did not
Every single one of those 51 teams dropped in the national rankings
Their drop was 23 to 54 places, with an average fall of 38 places
If you want one line that captures the reality:
Skipping Winter ITT cost Autumn teams ~38 ranking places on average.
Biggest movers
But for those who did attend, the Winter ITT rewarded teams who turned up and delivered.
Top ranking climbs among teams who already had an Autumn ranking:
Team | Autumn-era Rank | Current Rank | Rank Change | Winter Finish |
Sigil Reloaded | 51 | 17 | -34 | 7 |
Wessex Wyverns | 86 | 54 | -32 | 34 |
Vanguard Tactics | 33 | 9 | -24 | 4 |
Team Stonehammer | 49 | 27 | -22 | 31 |
The Grimdark garage B(eer) | 65 | 47 | -18 | 33 |
Sigil Reloaded is the clearest case study: a mid-pack Autumn into a Winter Top 10, and suddenly they’re #17 nationally. That is exactly why the biggest events are the biggest ranking accelerators.
Why UKTC super-majors are the best way to climb
Whilst this post has focused mainly on the impact of the team rankings, the facts ring just as true for the singles rankings too! All the players at this event will also have recieved a score on their UKTC individual ranking, based on their teams performance.
Winter ITT is a perfect demonstration of two truths:
Big events create big ranking movement. With 152 teams at Winter, you don’t just gain points. One strong run can leapfrog dozens of teams.
Not attending doesn’t freeze your position - it opens you up to being overtaken. Winter added 88 new teams to the season rankings. If you weren’t there, you effectively let the ladder expand underneath you.
If you care about your standing, the strategy is simple:
Attend the majors
Stack scores
Don’t give away weekends
don’t let your ranking slip by default
Winter ITT made it obvious: the teams that attend UKTC super-majors are the teams that control their ranking.
If you want to climb (or even hold position), get your calendar locked in and grab tickets early. UKTC events are the biggest weekends in the country, and they’re where the rankings are won, lost, and rewritten.
Check the UKTC event store and secure your next major - because the tickets won’t wait for you.
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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