Global Warhammer Rankings are GW’s rebrand of the ITC, now running five game systems through Best Coast Pairings on two scoring tracks.
New name, new logo, same rankings? Mostly, but GW has now tied the whole thing directly into the World Championships. The old ITC, or International Tournament Circuit, is now the Warhammer Global Rankings, and most of the leaderboard works the way players already know. The bigger changes underneath that rebrand are what can actually affect your next event.
GW has been steadily bringing more of the tournament scene under its own banner. If you’ve been following it absorbing the ITC and then reshaping Warhammer 40k tournaments and Age of Sigmar play, this is the next obvious move. It’s the same direction we saw when GW started reshaping the ITC tournament calendar.
- The rebrand: the ITC is now the Warhammer Global Rankings, covering 40k, Age of Sigmar, Kill Team, Spearhead, and Underworlds, while Best Coast Pairings continues handling the rankings.
- Two tracks: generalship is scored through the Competitive Track, while painting and conversions go through the Hobby Track, so your tournament army lists aren’t the only way onto the board.
- The Worlds change: your Global Rankings position now helps seed the World Championships pools, while each country’s highest-ranked unqualified player gets a golden ticket around June.
GW Finally Put Its Name on the Rankings
The new logo isn’t really the interesting part, honestly, but it does make GW’s direction pretty obvious. The Warhammer Global Rankings are still the year-long, season-based rankings players knew from the ITC, only now they cover five systems under one name: 40k, Age of Sigmar, Kill Team, Spearhead, and Underworlds. The good news is that Best Coast Pairings is still doing the number crunching and handling event details, while GW gets its name on the rankings and the road to Worlds.
Two Tracks Decide Where You Land
Before your next local event starts rolling dice, this is the part worth checking out. Every ranked event feeds into two separate tracks. The Competitive Track scores your finish while also factoring in the event size, number of rounds, and how you got there, with only your best results across the season counting.
Approved TO events and World Championship Qualifiers get a little extra weight, and the Hobby Track uses the same setup for painting and conversions instead of generalship. Our tournament army lists coverage follows many of those same events, with takeaways on the current meta and more.
Getting onto the rankings is pretty simple. Play at an event that’s been given a Global Rankings token through Best Coast Pairings; the organizer submits the results, and your points get added.
The leaderboard also breaks things down by country and faction, so you can see where you stand against other Ork players, for example, in your country or the regulars you keep seeing at Warhammer 40k tournaments.
The Real Change is How You Get to Worlds
This is where the rankings rebrand starts mattering beyond the leaderboard. Starting this year, pools at the World Championships of Warhammer are formed and seeded using where players rank inside their country and worldwide. So those standings can now help determine who you’re playing once you get to Worlds.
Around June, each country’s highest-ranked player who hasn’t already earned a golden ticket gets one now too. Finish the season on top of the Competitive Track, Hobby Track, or Best Team standings, and you’re named a Champion, earn a trip to Worlds, and get added to the Roll of Honor.
With GW already having moved the 2026 World Championships abroad, there’s a lot more riding on those rankings now for sure.
The New Events Hub Ties It Together
Warhammer Community also has a new Events section covering everything from the road to the World Championships to the paperwork for running your own event. UK players get three National Tournament Series stops coming up.
Our Warhammer 40k tournaments guide has the wider calendar, following the same ITC tournament calendar changes we’ve been watching.
Final Thoughts on the Warhammer Global Rankings
Changing the ITC logo and name isn’t going to affect anybody’s weekend by itself, but using those rankings to seed the World Championships absolutely can. If your national position helps decide your Worlds pool, skipping a token event can now cost you more than a few spots on a leaderboard.
It’ll be interesting to see what those first seeded pools look like, and whether the Hobby Track gives painters a reason to care about rankings even if tournament wins were never their thing.
See the new Global Warhammer Rankings on their new home now.
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What do you think of the new Warhammer Global Rankings and the way they seed the World Championships now?
