Hello, fellow Warhammer 40k fans! SaltyJohn from TFG Radio, and one of the Las Vegas Open Head Judges, here to bring you a wrap up of this week in the ITC!
If you’re following this series of articles I have been writing then you might have noticed I missed last week’s installment. I lead a trip to D.C. each year for my 8th-grade students and last week saw me off doing that and not able to complete an article. In that extra week’s time there were some very interesting developments in the ITC standings! Firstly the ITC and Best Coast Pairings introduced the Hobby Track! You can now see tracking within the ITC of player’s Hobby scores from various events, this is a very cool new tool for seeing what is going on in the competitive side of the Hobby that takes place outside the table top and with a paintbrush instead of dice.
Hobby Track
Overall Rankings
1k Sons (Kieren Howard)
CSM (Jared Friedman)
Jared Friedman is a name that’s popped up in this article a few times so far, and it’s no surprise given his dominating performances with Chaos Space Marines so far this season. Jared, and fellow top 10 player Daniel Sansone are slugging it out to see who can sit on the top spot in the CSM faction with Daniel currently holding the edge over Jared by a mere 14.24 points! Jared has put together an impressive showing of results so far and I will be following this faction closely to see is either Daniel or Jared can hold of Nick Nanavati and his brown magic…
Sean Nayden
Sean Nayden is a household name, if you only count households with more than 1 competitive 40k player, he’s a very well known and well-liked member of the Competitive 40k community. He is currently sitting in 6th place overall and his spread of armies he has used so far is pretty impressive. Aeldari, Haemonculus Coven, Drukhari, and Ynnari; 4 separate armies with 4 separate but equally impressive finishes so far. Sean is always a player to watch in the ITC, or any event he is playing in, Sean is one of those players who would be considered a safe bet to win any event he’s entered. I look forward to seeing if Sean solidifies his army and list as the season progresses or if he continues this trend of hopping around within the general theme of space elves.
Custodes (Geoff Robinson)
Team Ranking
The Team Rankings are no exception to the shake-up since the last time we covered them. All but one of the teams is a very well known team from last season, and all of the teams have been teams that are familiar to you if you’ve been following the top 20 teams this season. Mugu Legion taking the top spot this week with Beast Coast only 35.76 points behind them! If the Team Rankings turn out to be anything like last year then this is going to be a fun top 10 to watch as the season progresses. Last year the top 3 shifted all way down to the very end of the season with LVO being the deciding factor in which team took 3rd place. The team rankings are one of my favorite parts of the ITC rankings to watch develop as the season goes on down the tracks toward LVO 2019.
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