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Well, because I was bored, I spent the last 15 minutes reformatting the Vegas GT score report (http://gwuscommunity.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/vegasgt40k.pdf) and did some data crunching. Here's what I came up with. Unfortunately, the sample sizes are way, way, too small to provide any useful analysis, but here's the results.

Total Number of Armies: 128

Most Popular Army: Chaos Space Marines (21 players - however, SM are split into codexes, which affects those numbers)
Least Popular Army: Daemonhunters (2 players)

MEQ armies (primarily T4/3+ save): 61

Overall Average Battle Points Earned: 56.039

Highest Average Battle Points: Chaos Daemons (67.166)
Lowest Average Battle Points: Dark Eldar (43.333)

Armies that averaged above the overall average:
Chaos Daemons, Witchhunters, Orks, Daemonhunter, Black Templars, Blood Angels, Eldar, Space Marines

Armies that averaged below the overall average:
Imperial Guard, Chaos Space Marines, Tau, Space Wolves, Tyranids, Necrons, Dark Angels, Dark Eldar

In the Top 10% (scoring 75 or more battle points):
Orks, Chaos Daemons, Eldar, Witchhunter, Chaos Space Marines, Tyranid, Tau

might be a tiny sample set, but i still appreciate the work... thanks!

Demons did well, orks did well, sisters did well. The big surprise for me was how chaos marines didn't do all that well.

There were some stand out players in the other armies, but the first row of tables were thick with exorcists, shoota boys and bloodthirsters.

the dark eldar results were disheartening. Also, dark angels were there in force but were universally worked over...

lets hope GW is analyzing this data as much as we are

Like I said before, Dark Eldar overall suffer in 5th just as bad as Tau and Necrons.

I reformatted and analyzed the scores as well. Been a past time of mine for awhile now (although I didn't do it at all last year for some reason).

Another interesting anecdote: Dark Angels were more popular then regular Space Marines. They also had the worst showing after Dark Eldar, and this was with a significant number of people using them (15) as opposed to DE (3). It was not the tournament to be "Dark" at, that is for sure (ok that was a bad joke, sorry).

Any case, both the popularity and low scores were pretty interesting to me. Maybe Dark Angels do suck as much as the internet grognards have proclaimed.

I am more interested in the collected data after the other GTs have taken place, since only a few armies have any data that is worth considering. I was hoping they'd all happen before the SM dex was legal but it sure looks like Baltimore will probably allow it. The changes in that dex will have a significant impact I'd wager.

Shep wrote: The big surprise for me was how chaos marines didn't do all that well.

They were the most popular army. With more people playing them you're going to get more mediocrity.