It's time again to present the awards and the results for this season of the Tabletop Republic Warhammer 40k 2000pt league! This blog will go through the missions, the results, and the statistics from Season 4, which ran from October to December 2023.
THE LEAGUE
The 2000pt Tabletop Republic 40k league is comprised of 6 games played over 3 months, with each round lasting 2 weeks. This season had 16 players.
TABLE
Sam won his second league title in a row with an undefeated run only stunted by a 78-all draw with former champion Sid.
Greg achieved a league podium for the first time, finishing 2nd place with some very impressive scores.
Steve also got his first ever league podium with his 3rd place finish - making it 2 CSM armies in the top 3!
The final table above shows the full standings for each player - with their placings based on the following criteria
1. Total wins
2. Oppt. Game Win %
3. Battle Points scored
Each rounds pairings was based on the following: wins > path to victory > random.
THE MISSIONS
AWARDS
And finally, we get to the awards - in this first section, all the winners will recieve a small award, plus in-store credit using the prize pool money
LEAGUE WINNER: Sam Smith (Chaos Space Marines)
LEAGUE RUNNER-UP: Greg Wall (Aeldari)
LEAGUE THIRD PLACE: Steve Flood (Chaos Space Marines)
BEST PAINTED: Steve Flood (CSM)
PLAYER'S PLAYER: Rob Steenkamp
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Then these awards are just blog-exclusive fun:
WOODEN SPOON: Radal Andruszkiewicz (Orks)
MOST POINTS SCORED: Sam Smith (1st, 556pts) - 56pts more than his last
LEAST POINTS SCORED: Rafal Andruszkiewicz (16th, 173 pts) [note; 3 games were 0pt bye losses)
BIGGEST WIN: Gavin Blackshire 25 - 98 James Koch (R4, 73pt difference)
CLOSEST GAME: Hristo Nikolov 77 - 77 Steve Flood (R2), Sam Smith 78 - 78 Sid Sidhu (R2) & James Koch 70 - 70 Nick Hooper (R5)
HIGHEST SCORING GAME: Greg Wall 98 - 89 Sid Sidhu (R5, 187pts)
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BEST IMPERIUM PLAYER: Nick Hooper - Iron Hands (6th)
BEST CHAOS PLAYER: Samuel Smith - CSM (1st)
BEST XENOS PLAYER: Greg Wall - Aeldari (2nd)
AVERAGE IMPERIUM POSITION: 7.75
AVERAGE CHAOS POSITION: 8
AVERAGE XENOS POSITION: 9.8
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The 'Most Improved Player' Award: Rob Steenkamp (14th last season -> 7th)
The 'This One Doesn't Count' Award: Carl Stabler (5th last season -> 14th)
The 'Submarine' Award: Greg Wall (highest position after opening loss, 2nd)
The 'Best Newcomer' Award: Tom Parrin, 4th
...and that's the league report done! The next season starts early Jan and hopefully I'll be able to join it subject to player numbers and availability!
Let me know if I got anything wrong - otherwise see you very soon for the next 1k league blog and in 3 months for the next 2k blog!
- Tom M
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