Sep 9, 2026 · 21 min · 8 segments
In this 40K Fireside episode, Dave takes a step back to talk about the state of Warhammer 40K 11th Edition after its first few months.We look at the early signs of tournament growth, including huge…
David GaylardHost
Okay, so in my opinion, 11th edition seems to be off to a very popular start amongst the tournament players.
I think it was 46 teams and quite a few of them were new ones and some teams could make it.
And then LGT, like I've just said before as well, is sold out at 1,200 players.
You know, maybe I feel like at the start the 10th edition the game grew the most I've seen it personally and you know we used to have tournaments the last LGT I think we played was like 1100 this one is 1200 but I used to play at the beginning of 10th edition tournaments that were like 220 players 230 players and those were reasonably sized like relatively big tournaments but now There are so many tournaments that are kind of 300 to 400 players.
It really feels like we are kind of embarking on a new event canvas for how people compete in these tournaments.
A tournament is an average of 500 to 600 players, which we could get to, right? Like all the super majors are 500 to 600 players.
You know, that's a much harder prospect in some ways of getting to the end, getting to the top four and...
At the moment, I guess we don't really think about top four, top eight as much as we could otherwise, but I think I've been playing a bit of Magic recently.
Reflecting on that, I think getting top four, top eight in some of these larger tournaments is going to be a bit more of an accolade, especially when they're so big.
Okay, so in my opinion, 11th edition seems to be off to a very popular start amongst the tournament players.
I think it was 46 teams and quite a few of them were new ones and some teams could make it.
And then LGT, like I've just said before as well, is sold out at 1,200 players.
You know, maybe I feel like at the start the 10th edition the game grew the most I've seen it personally and you know we used to have tournaments the last LGT I think we played was like 1100 this one is 1200 but I used to play at the beginning of 10th edition tournaments that were like 220 players 230 players and those were reasonably sized like relatively big tournaments but now There are so many tournaments that are kind of 300 to 400 players.
It really feels like we are kind of embarking on a new event canvas for how people compete in these tournaments.
A tournament is an average of 500 to 600 players, which we could get to, right? Like all the super majors are 500 to 600 players.
You know, that's a much harder prospect in some ways of getting to the end, getting to the top four and...
At the moment, I guess we don't really think about top four, top eight as much as we could otherwise, but I think I've been playing a bit of Magic recently.
Reflecting on that, I think getting top four, top eight in some of these larger tournaments is going to be a bit more of an accolade, especially when they're so big.
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