Competitive Innovations

Competitive Innovations in 9th: It’s not a Bug, It’s a Feature

This week we look at the Tyranids' rise to dominance after a quiet post-launch week, and examine the other impacts of Armour of Contempt on the meta in 9th edition.

Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: Skaven Win-Win an Event!

Just one tournament to cover this weekend in Scotland due to the bank holiday weekend - let's crush it. Fall of the Old World VII A two-day, five-round event which took place in Stirling, Scotland. It was a 31 player event...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Everything to Play For

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this article claimed that Steven Crawley had mis-played the Lurk ability in multiple rounds. After further investigation we have updated it to reflect that this only occurred in a single round and was...

Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: Turtle Power!

A great number of tournaments happened over the weekend, including an especially large event in Canada. Three tournaments made our normal 28-player cutoff, and Alice has also joined in this week to take a look at Warpstone Wars, since...

Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: April 20th, 2022

A Light Week Basically, only one tournament had lists available and was ran this past weekend with 28 or more players (our cut off point for coverage). As a result, let's take a bit of a closer look at the...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: The Curtain Falls

This week's edition of Competitive Innovations is going to be relatively brief - we only had three events this weekend due to it being Easter, and two of those were pre-Balance Dataslate and Tyranid Codex, and were dominated by armies...

Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: April 13th, 2022

LAST TIME ON COMPETITIVE INNOVATIONS So as you'll see in the results below, Stormcast Eternals are still a threat and it'll take more than a slap on the wrist from the Battlescroll update to knock them off podiums. That said,...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Joker Mode pt.2

As mentioned yesterday, there's been quite a few events this week, so we've split the post up. Today we'll look at: Fool's Errand (Major) Grand Onslaught 3 Black Heart GT ...

Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: April 6th, 2022

It's been a mixed bag for ol' Ellarr, reader. A fantastic weekend at Sanctuary Games for Quest of Champions Heat 2, as well as the underwhelming reveal of Arena of Shades weakening my precious Nighthaunt. But let's not talk...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Joker Mode pt.1

So the good news first - help is coming in the form of a Balance Dataslate about a month ahead of schedule, that will include changes to Harlequins, and we applaud GW for being ready to respond in an agile...