With Campaign done and dusted and me being in need of a break from writing up 3 consecutive sets of competition match reports here's the "once a year" annually updated "fast becoming a thing" analysis of the relative popularity of various "competition" Ancients sets in the UK taken as a snapshot right now.
Last year's analysis came at the beginning of May, so this covers a smidge later 12 month period this time. As usual, all the data is compiled using actual, observable factual numbers of players taking part in events in the UK – well, those events that have a web footprint of some sort anyway. I also freely admit that ts not going to be perfect, so if you think some of the numbers are out by 1 or 2, that's well within the tolerances of rounding and data collection errors, its the bigger picture that counts.
Each year I also stress that this is just competition data – what gets played a your club, or in your basement isn't visible and isn't measurable so this is just a count of those weird people who enter UK-based competitions.
So, whats' been going on?
As of today there are still a host of viable Ancients competition sets out there all attracting north of 30-odd players and hosting events throughout the year. L'Art de la Guerre is firmly established and still growing, we are more than a year into the era of V3.0 for FoG Ancients, MeG is about to start its 4th full year of being played in the UK, To The Strongest! is rolling out an increasing number of competitions and the venerable DBA, DBM and DBMM scenes are still ticking along nicely too.
What does that mean for each set in turn?
Let's have a look shall we… more at:
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finally paints the first of his Gauls...
