126 players brought 28 different factions to Phoenix, AZ for 6 rounds of Warhammer 40,000 on August 22–23, 2026. Gwenn Godfrey (T'au Empire, Making Saves) and Travis Finell (Deathwatch, Smite Club) both finished 6–0; Gwenn took the event on tiebreakers.
PodiumFinal placings after 6 rounds — wins, then strength of schedule, then battle points.
Champion
Gwenn Godfrey
T'au Empire · Reconnaissance Making Saves
6–0 · 584 battle points · avg 97.3 per game
2nd place
Travis Finell
Deathwatch · Take and Hold Smite Club
6–0 · 562 battle points · avg 93.7 per game
3rd place
Alex Spathopoulos
Chaos Space Marines · Reconnaissance Xenos Petting Zoo
5–1 · 487 battle points · avg 81.2 per game
Top 8
Place
Player
Club
Faction
Disposition
Record
Battle pts
1
Gwenn Godfrey
Making Saves
T'au Empire
Reconnaissance
6–0
584
2
Travis Finell
Smite Club
Deathwatch
Take and Hold
6–0
562
3
Alex Spathopoulos
Xenos Petting Zoo
Chaos Space Marines
Reconnaissance
5–1
487
4
Jacob Wagner
Smite Club
Necrons
Priority Assets
5–1
544
5
Justin Aguilar
Smite Club
Orks
Take and Hold
5–1
553
6
Tyler Hayes
Making Saves
Chaos Space Marines
Take and Hold
5–1
530
7
Anthony LoGrande
Smite Club
Chaos Space Marines
Take and Hold
5–1
530
8
Jason McKenzie
Xenos Petting Zoo
Chaos Daemons
Purge the Foe
5–1
566
AwardsTrophies handed out on Sunday evening.
Tournament awards
Best Overall
Jason McKenzie
Chaos Daemons · Xenos Petting Zoo · 8th place
Best General
Gwenn Godfrey
T'au Empire · Making Saves · 1st place
Best Army
Edwin Mehta
Dark Angels · Making Saves · 22nd place
Best Imperium
Travis Finell
Deathwatch · Smite Club · 2nd place
Best Chaos
Sabastian Warnas
Emperor's Children · Making Saves · 13th place
Best Xenos
Jacob Wagner
Necrons · Smite Club · 4th place
Best Rookie
Brian Heiberger
Chaos Space Marines · Wasteland Dice Rollers · 36th place
Best Display
Logan Haga
Orks · Flagged for Heresy · 11th place
Best Model
Jason Peck
Thousand Sons · Guild of One · 99th place
Phoenix Miniature Painting Open
Open painting competition run alongside the tournament floor.
Best Fantasy
Gareth O'Neal
Best Sci-Fi
Ben McDonald
Emperor's Children · Smite Club · 18th place
Players' Choice
Ian Bushwood
Blood Angels · Warp Nexus Gaming · 63rd place
Entries on the Phoenix Miniature Painting Open tableBen McDonald's entry — Best Sci-FiGareth O'Neal's entry — Best Fantasy
Faction metaWho showed up, and who won.
The most-played faction was Orks with 12 players (9.5% of the field) — with 28 factions on the floor, no single army came close to dominating the sign-up sheet. Among factions with at least 4 players, Chaos Daemons posted the best win rate (67% across 33 games, 3 top-16 finishes) and Blood Angels had the toughest weekend (33% across 36 games).
Factions: players and win rateSorted by players. Win rate counts ties as half a win and excludes byes; factions under 4 players are shown but not ranked.
Sort by
Players10%50%90%Top 16
Orks1254%2
Chaos Space Marines958%3
Tyranids954%1
Space Marines747%1
Necrons741%1
Blood Angels733%0
Chaos Daemons667%3
T'au Empire665%1
Emperor's Children657%1
Leagues of Votann557%0
Death Guard548%0
Thousand Sons537%0
World Eaters462%1
Adeptus Custodes450%0
Dark Angels448%0
Aeldari447%0
Black Templars446%0
Grey Knights440%1
Space Wolves434%0
Drukhari267%0
Astra Militarum246%0
Imperial Agents246%0
Adepta Sororitas242%0
Imperial Knights227%0
Deathwatch1100%1
Chaos Knights133%0
Adeptus Mechanicus117%0
Genestealer Cult10%0
playerswin rate above 50%below 50%too few players to rank
Table view
Faction
Players
Share
W–L–T
Win rate
Avg place
Top 8
Top 16
Avg pts
Best finish
Orks
12
9.5%
34–29
54.0%
60.8
1
2
79.3
Justin Aguilar (5th)
Chaos Space Marines
9
7.1%
29–21–2
57.7%
46.9
3
3
75.7
Alex Spathopoulos (3rd)
Tyranids
9
7.1%
24–20–1
54.4%
61.2
0
1
80.6
Kennith Onyeabor (16th)
Space Marines
7
5.6%
16–18–1
47.1%
70.3
0
1
69.3
Ava Regalado (14th)
Necrons
7
5.6%
15–22
40.5%
74.3
1
1
78.5
Jacob Wagner (4th)
Blood Angels
7
5.6%
12–24
33.3%
89.4
0
0
70.7
Ryan Kelly (44th)
Chaos Daemons
6
4.8%
22–11
66.7%
30.7
1
3
85.9
Jason McKenzie (8th)
T'au Empire
6
4.8%
22–12
64.7%
43.0
1
1
86.3
Gwenn Godfrey (1st)
Emperor's Children
6
4.8%
17–13
56.7%
60.8
0
1
74.8
Sabastian Warnas (13th)
Leagues of Votann
5
4.0%
13–10
56.5%
61.4
0
0
82.5
Michael Prasky (31st)
Death Guard
5
4.0%
14–15
48.3%
56.6
0
0
71.5
Don Hooson (42nd)
Thousand Sons
5
4.0%
9–16–2
37.0%
85.0
0
0
67.4
Matt Zelus (51st)
World Eaters
4
3.2%
13–8
61.9%
50.5
0
1
77.0
Mark Whittaker (12th)
Adeptus Custodes
4
3.2%
12–12
50.0%
54.2
0
0
71.5
Jason Kavetsky (20th)
Dark Angels
4
3.2%
9–10–1
47.5%
65.2
0
0
84.3
Edwin Mehta (22nd)
Aeldari
4
3.2%
9–10
47.4%
71.2
0
0
71.8
Michael Azer (47th)
Black Templars
4
3.2%
11–13
45.8%
63.0
0
0
70.0
Anthony Neundorff (24th)
Grey Knights
4
3.2%
8–12
40.0%
78.5
0
1
69.7
Donovan Sailo (9th)
Space Wolves
4
3.2%
6–12–1
34.2%
80.2
0
0
68.0
Tyler Mccormick (45th)
Drukhari
2
1.6%
6–3
66.7%
54.0
0
0
86.7
Stephen Corrales (34th)
Astra Militarum
2
1.6%
5–6–1
45.8%
54.0
0
0
64.2
Mark McKnight (39th)
Imperial Agents
2
1.6%
5–6–1
45.8%
58.5
0
0
72.8
Armando Gutierrez (38th)
Adepta Sororitas
2
1.6%
5–7
41.7%
64.0
0
0
78.2
Ryan Hayes (41st)
Imperial Knights
2
1.6%
3–8
27.3%
97.0
0
0
74.8
Eric Coleman (88th)
Deathwatch
1
0.8%
6–0
100.0%
2.0
1
1
93.7
Travis Finell (2nd)
Chaos Knights
1
0.8%
1–2
33.3%
103.0
0
0
71.7
Brian Byrd (103rd)
Adeptus Mechanicus
1
0.8%
1–5
16.7%
107.0
0
0
63.5
Seth Yeo (107th)
Genestealer Cult
1
0.8%
0–2
0.0%
120.0
0
0
55.5
Daniel Ricks (120th)
Imperium · Chaos · Xenos
Imperium made up 35% of the field, won 43% of its games, and put 3 players in the top 16; Chaos made up 29% of the field, won 55% of its games, and put 8 players in the top 16; Xenos made up 37% of the field, won 53% of its games, and put 5 players in the top 16.
43%Imperium win rate
44 players (35% of field) · 3 in the top 16 · 1 in the top 8
55%Chaos win rate
36 players (29% of field) · 8 in the top 16 · 4 in the top 8
53%Xenos win rate
46 players (37% of field) · 5 in the top 16 · 3 in the top 8
Mirror matches (same faction on both sides): 17 of 332 games. Same super-faction on both sides: 111 games (33%).
Force DispositionsPopulation, win rate, and how each matched up against the others.
Take and Hold was the most popular Force Disposition (45 players, 36%) and won 47% of its games. The most lopsided head-to-heads: Reconnaissance beat Priority Assets 18–8–2; Purge the Foe beat Reconnaissance 16–7; Priority Assets beat Take and Hold 37–23–1.
Dispositions: players and win rateWin rate counts ties as half a win and excludes byes.
Players30%50%70%Top 16
Take and Hold4547%9
Priority Assets3150%3
Purge the Foe2552%2
Reconnaissance2052%2
Disruption555%0
playerswin rate above 50%below 50%too few players to rank
Table view
Disposition
Players
Share
W–L–T
Win rate
Avg place
Top 8
Top 16
Avg pts
Best finish
Take and Hold
45
35.7%
110–122–4
47.5%
67.2
4
9
74.8
Travis Finell (2nd)
Priority Assets
31
24.6%
83–83–3
50.0%
61.2
1
3
76.9
Jacob Wagner (4th)
Purge the Foe
25
19.8%
70–64–1
52.2%
58.2
1
2
76.5
Jason McKenzie (8th)
Reconnaissance
20
15.9%
53–49–2
51.9%
62.5
2
2
76.4
Gwenn Godfrey (1st)
Disruption
5
4.0%
11–9
55.0%
74.8
0
0
76.8
Patrick Brown (19th)
Head-to-headRead across: the row disposition's win rate against the column disposition. Mirror matchups are left blank.
vs T&H
vs PA
vs PtF
vs Recon
vs Disr
Take and Hold
—
39%61 g
58%49 g
45%42 g
38%8 g
Priority Assets
61%61 g
—
46%35 g
32%28 g
40%5 g
Purge the Foe
42%49 g
54%35 g
—
70%23 g
67%6 g
Reconnaissance
55%42 g
68%28 g
30%23 g
—
0%1 g
Disruption
62%8 g
60%5 g
33%6 g
100%1 g
—
row disposition's win rate vs column · ≥75%65–75%55–65%45–55%35–45%25–35%≤25%· cells with under 8 games stay neutral
How the games playedScoring, margins, and round-by-round tightness across 332 games.
Players averaged 76 points per game, and someone reached the 100-point cap in 33% of games. The median margin of victory was 28 points: 10% of games were decided by five points or fewer, while 24% ended 50+ apart. Round 5 was the tightest of the weekend (median margin 22).
76avg points per game
33%games with a 100
28median margin
5ties
Score distributionEvery player score from every game (664 scores), in 10-point bins. The 100 bin is the scoring cap.
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100
Table view
Score
Scores
Share
0–9
3
0.5%
10–19
9
1.4%
20–29
16
2.4%
30–39
26
3.9%
40–49
47
7.1%
50–59
55
8.3%
60–69
69
10.4%
70–79
82
12.3%
80–89
105
15.8%
90–99
143
21.5%
100
109
16.4%
Margin of victoryHow many points separated the two players.
0–5 pts34 · 10%
6–10 pts31 · 9%
11–20 pts64 · 19%
21–30 pts48 · 14%
31–50 pts76 · 23%
51+ pts79 · 24%
Table view
Margin
Games
Share
0–5
34
10.2%
6–10
31
9.3%
11–20
64
19.3%
21–30
48
14.5%
31–50
76
22.9%
51+
79
23.8%
Median margin by roundLower means closer games. Tooltips carry the full round summary.
Round 136
Round 228
Round 330
Round 432
Round 522
Round 625
Table view
Round
Games
Avg score
Avg winner
Avg loser
Median margin
100s
Ties
Round 1
63
73.8
92.6
55.0
36
24
1
Round 2
62
75.6
92.2
59.1
28
20
0
Round 3
58
75.5
91.9
59.1
30
19
0
Round 4
54
76.3
93.1
59.5
32
22
0
Round 5
52
79.6
92.2
66.9
22
14
1
Round 6
43
75.4
90.5
60.4
25
10
3
ClubsWho travelled together — and how they did.
24 clubs were represented, plus 19 unaffiliated players. Making Saves brought the most players (17); among clubs with at least 3 players, Smite Club had the best win rate (70%).
Clubs with 3+ playersSorted by players. Every club (and unaffiliated players) is in the table view.
Sort by
Players10%50%90%Top 16
Making Saves1765%5
Smite Club1270%4
Midtable Mercenaries959%1
Inner Circle942%1
Xenos Petting Zoo768%4
The Tabled658%0
Warp Nexus Gaming647%0
Wasteland Dice Rollers644%0
Flagged for Heresy540%1
Las Vegas Mind Goblins456%0
10 Points for Paint344%0
Bad Gamblers339%0
Space Junkies338%0
The Warbound328%0
playerswin rate above 50%below 50%too few players to rank
Table view
Club
Players
Share
W–L–T
Win rate
Avg place
Top 8
Top 16
Avg pts
Best finish
Unaffiliated
19
15.1%
30–61
33.0%
92.5
0
0
68.2
Dustin Chavez (32nd)
Making Saves
17
13.5%
59–32–1
64.7%
38.6
2
5
82.2
Gwenn Godfrey (1st)
Smite Club
12
9.5%
48–21
69.6%
29.0
4
4
83.6
Travis Finell (2nd)
Midtable Mercenaries
9
7.1%
22–15
59.5%
68.8
0
1
80.2
Mark Whittaker (12th)
Inner Circle
9
7.1%
21–29
42.0%
69.1
0
1
77.1
John Topping (10th)
Xenos Petting Zoo
7
5.6%
28–13–1
67.9%
26.7
2
4
84.9
Alex Spathopoulos (3rd)
The Tabled
6
4.8%
19–14
57.6%
46.5
0
0
81.5
Steve Hughitt (23rd)
Warp Nexus Gaming
6
4.8%
16–18
47.1%
64.8
0
0
77.8
Wes Bushwood (17th)
Wasteland Dice Rollers
6
4.8%
13–17–1
43.5%
74.0
0
0
69.9
Anthony Neundorff (24th)
Flagged for Heresy
5
4.0%
11–17–1
39.7%
68.8
0
1
65.8
Logan Haga (11th)
Las Vegas Mind Goblins
4
3.2%
9–7
56.2%
70.2
0
0
79.6
Matt Zelus (51st)
10 Points for Paint
3
2.4%
7–9–2
44.4%
68.7
0
0
68.1
David Wattle (67th)
Bad Gamblers
3
2.4%
7–11
38.9%
75.7
0
0
64.5
Jake Goswick (49th)
Space Junkies
3
2.4%
5–9–2
37.5%
84.7
0
0
73.2
Daniel Trakes (68th)
The Warbound
3
2.4%
4–11–1
28.1%
91.0
0
0
62.2
Austin McAvoy (37th)
4 Horsemen Gaming
2
1.6%
7–5
58.3%
39.5
0
0
76.7
Patrick Brown (19th)
Hard Luck
2
1.6%
5–7
41.7%
61.0
0
0
79.4
Tyler Mccormick (45th)
Daddy’s of Doom
2
1.6%
4–8
33.3%
91.0
0
0
70.4
Ethmundo Rosales (87th)
Warboyz
2
1.6%
1–3
25.0%
116.0
0
0
52.2
Eric Covill (109th)
Hardened Casuals
1
0.8%
3–3
50.0%
66.0
0
0
80.0
Evan Clause (66th)
Heroes and Villains
1
0.8%
3–3
50.0%
44.0
0
0
81.8
Ryan Kelly (44th)
Kastle Krashers
1
0.8%
2–4
33.3%
91.0
0
0
79.3
Adrian Astorga (91st)
WarpStorm
1
0.8%
2–4
33.3%
80.0
0
0
74.8
Hansol Ko (80th)
Guild of One
1
0.8%
1–4–1
25.0%
99.0
0
0
61.8
Jason Peck (99th)
The Drangle Sessions
1
0.8%
0–2
0.0%
119.0
0
0
40.5
Seth Davis (119th)
NotablesNumbers worth a second look.
Highest average score
97.3
Gwenn Godfrey (T'au Empire) across 6 games
Most 100-point games
5
Tyler Hayes and Logan Haga
Most battle points outside the top 8
581
Donovan Sailo finished 9th at 5–1 with more battle points than 7 of the top 8 — strength of schedule decided it
Highest-scoring game
196
combined points · Michael de la Torre 100–96 Daniel Trakes · R4
Lowest winning score
44
Thomas Bernard 44–34 Caden Frisch · R1 — a grind
Closest games
7
decided by 1–2 points: Armando Gutierrez 71–70 Blake Davis · R3; David Wattle 87–86 Eric Coleman · R4; Steve Hughitt 81–80 Ryan Kelly · R5; Armando Gutierrez 64–62 Jason Peck · R2…
Ties
5
Austin McAvoy (75) tied Armando Gutierrez (75) · R6; Daniel Trakes (93) tied Matthew Wattle (93) · R5; Hayden Hodge (59) tied Derek Patt (59) · R6; Jason Peck (44) tied Erick Adams-Molina (44) · R6; Ava Regalado (70) tied Brian Heiberger (70) · R1
Most common list shape
10
players ran Orks with Take and Hold
Mirror matches
17
same faction on both sides — 5% of games
Finished with 4+ wins
35
players · 2 at 6–0, 11 at 5–1, 1 at 4–1–1, 21 at 4–2
The weekend in pictures
Full standingsAll 126 players. Record is wins–losses(–ties); byes count as wins. Players who left early show their rounds played.