Market Report · September 2026
September was the month of the camper van.
A month-end look at the UK competition scene from our ticket tracking. One house took the top spot, then vans most of the way down.
September's story · vans everywhere
The top of the board keeps changing. Supercars in July, houses in August, vans this month. A £600,000 home still led our board, but after that it was campers all the way: a VW Crafter with an Audi RSQ8 at £140,000, another Crafter with a BMW X5 at £115,000, then a Roller Team T-Line 750 with an Audi Q3 at £100,000.
Three of the twenty biggest prizes anywhere had a camper or motorhome in them, and caravans and campervans accounted for £833,000 across 51 draws.
None of them are just a van, either. It's a van plus a car plus a few grand in cash, bundled together until the headline reads well.
The biggest real prizes
Our pick of the month's biggest prizes, and three of them are vans.
Three of these six were campers with a car attached.
Where the money was
Cars took the most value again. Property is the odd one: eight competitions all month, £2.6m between them.
Total prize value of competitions that drew in September, grouped by what the prize was. Worth noting the counts behind them: 388 car draws made £7m, while 2,983 instant-win draws made £1.3m between them.
New this month · operators on camera
A trust grade shows you whether a site publishes its odds or offers a free route. It won't show you who runs the place. So we've started filming operators and asking them all the same questions. Ruby Competitions A went first.
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Chris takes seven of them, including how he keeps his draws fair and what he'd change about the industry.
Watch the interview →"People buy from people, they don't buy from businesses. So stand by what you do, stand by what you say, and do everything above board."
Chris, Ruby Competitions
A few more are recording now. If you run a site and fancy doing one, get in touch.
Worth knowing · the number on the poster
The biggest number we saw in September was a competition billed at £750,000. That figure is the combined value of 249,032 instant-win prizes spread through 665,225 tickets. The end draw, the bit one person actually wins, was £250.
The site isn't hiding any of it, the breakdown is right there on the page. But £750,000 is what goes in the title. We take these pools out before ranking anything, which came to about £1.5m in September, so our board won't match the adverts.
Who was busiest
Competitions drawn in September. Rev Comps ran well over twice as many as anyone else on this list.
The odds
This one barely shifts. In September 8% sold every ticket, 37% finished under half sold, and the middle of the pack closed at 62%.
If a competition doesn't fill up, your odds were better than the page said. Most of them don't fill up.
The cheap end
There were 1,159 free entries in September across 368 sites, and you could still get in for a penny. The quiet comps that never sell out tend to be the better odds.
See what's live now →One to watch · October
Our October pick is Hittin' It Big, an A+ site that publishes your current odds as well as your odds on a sellout, which almost nobody does. The prize is a luxury Spanish villa or £175,000, tickets are 95p, and it closes on 11 October.
Enter on Hittin' It Big →Put together by CompWatch from our live tracking of UK competition sites through September 2026. Every site we list is independently rated across 12 trust indicators. Figures cover competitions that reached their draw during the month, with instant-win pools excluded from prize values. Market-wide totals count every site we track. Anywhere we name an operator, including the prize board and the busiest sites, we only include sites rated C or above.