Let's take a look at the stats for the first ever London GT where as the title already spoiled someone took New Mutants to a 4:0 finish. That someone is one of the hosts of the fantastic Rapid Fire Podcast Redcathal, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at last year's WTC. I'm sure he'll cover his run on his podcast but otherwise I'd be very interested in hearing more about his list and play style with this not much loved affiliation. Importantly he didn't win day 1 of the GT but got second place because of SOS. That honor goes to another Irish player in Mike Porter who brought Inhumans, which were very popular at the event as we'll see.
Not seeing Brotherhood, Convocation, Hellfire Club, Legion of the Lost, Sentinels and Winter Guard isn't a shock but no X-Men certainly is. Also Thralls of Dracula could've been played but weren't.
There's a pretty good spread of people with the majority of attendees coming from England and London specifically which isn't a surprise at all. Many more Irish players than Scottish which does surprise me a bit. And very cool to see a French player and two Spanish ones at the event. I'd love to go to some of these but there's currently no chance I can finance that... You could help me by joining my Patreon 😉
44 of the 48 players achieved the first and for these kinds of articles most important task: submitting their roster as MCT Code. So let's look at the top 10 characters brought in Rosters:
It's a shared first place between Shang-Chi (no surprise), Toad (even after his nerf absolutely no surprise) and Doctor Voodoo. Voodoo is definitely more of a surprise as his home affiliations aren't super well represented and he doesn't really fit in a Steve 1 led Avengers team. He's just an extremely good 4 threat in his own right so I don't question anyone who brought him.
Baron Zemo at 4th is maybe only a surprise in the sense that he isn't part of the shared #1 spot.
Hulk is the most competitive 6 threat choice and functions well in every roster you take him in so again not a surprise.
Rhino is core in Criminal Syndicate and Spider-Foes. Making up 11 of his 12 uses already.
Basically the same can be said for Lizard. Bullseye, again even after his nerf, makes 9 teams definitely helped by the 6 Criminals.
Namor, less universally seen than at the start of the year, shows up a lot with 9 uses as well.
And rounding out the top 10 is the star of the Inhumans Royal Court pack in Gorgon who makes it into rosters as a splash (and rightfully so).
Skrulls remains the most taken crisis card followed by Infinity Formula, Hammers and unsurprisingly Inhuman Weapons.
And as expected the best designed crisis in the game, Terrigen Canisters, isn't taken a lot because very few team actually want to play on it.
Both New Mutants and Dark Dimension (played by Chris Wills ) went a perfect 4:0.
Apocalypse was successful too.
20 wins in 28 games gives Inhumans an unbelievable 71% win rate.
Untypically Doc Ock was less popular but more successful than Green Goblin and pushes the overall stats for the Spider-Foes up.
Avengers were almost exactly even if it wasn't for the single Sam game, that increases the overall percentage to 53%.
Exactly even performances for A-Force, Cabal, Unaffiliated (I don't get it) and Web Warriors.
Event and Across the Bifrost co-host Jaime did play leaderless Weapon X in multiple games but I'm not sure the other Weapon X player actually played Wolverines and not Logan the Wolverine as his leader since he was among those who failed to put in their roster as MCT Code...
Doctor Strange Defenders come out positive but Defenders overall didn't.
X-Force went relatively even and have possibly been played leaderless once?
Nick Fury didn't have a good day at all.
M'Baku and Wakanda also didn't really.
Asgard, while still quite popular didn't see a tonne of success.
My poor Guardians...
Oh my even poorer Midnight Sons!
Playing Black Order at the moment must feel like playing with your feet while both your hands are tied behind your back.
Loads of Wedding Parties in London this weekend. And Scoundrels as well.
Very even spread between Prio and non Prio. And as expected 17 is the most common threat level followed by 20 which makes sense when Wedding Party and Scoundrels combine for 30 of 89 games.
Lastly we just take a quick look at how the top 8 pod played out on day 2:
Congratulations to William for taking the event down and I'm sure everyone has loads of fun. I'd love to one day attend an event run by Norbert and Jaime but for that the Patreon has to get going 😃
That's it for today.
Next we'll cover the June 2025 stats, a half year stats overview my roster for our War of Kings TTS League, cheap terrain alternatives and many more.
Cheers from Germany 🍻
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