Winners and finalists

2023

WINNER: Riki Msindo
RUNNER-UP: Josh Adkins
FINALISTS: Daniel Petrie, Emmerson Young, Katie Carrig, Alex Knipe, Hannah Yarwood, Ivo Pope, Muhsin Yesilada

2022

WINNER: Caitriona Dowden
RUNNER-UP: Stepan Mysko von Schultze
FINALISTS: Sascha LO, Hasan Al-Habib, Ethan Willmer-Anderson, Henry Shannon, Alex Mason, Jin Hao Li, Jack Dearnley, Charlie Humphrey and Henry Whaley

2021

WINNER: Joe Kent-Walters
RUNNER-UP: Sam Williams
FINALISTS:  Omar Badawy, Andy Bucks, Charlotte Cropper, Hamish Duff, Isaac Kean, Grace Sanders, 
Scott Redmond, George Tothill, Sharon Wanjohi

2020

Competition was interrupted by the Covid pandemic. Finalists competed in 2021 instead

2019

WINNER: Erika Ehler
RUNNER-UP: Tom Short
FINALISTS: Dan Allum-Gruselle, Emman Idama, Tim Thompson, Finlay Christie,  Mamoun Elagab, Rosa Handscomb

2018

WINNER: Bexie Archer
RUNNER-UP: James Trickey
FINALISTS: Ania Magliano, Alex Franklin, Jamie Dalgleish, Lulu Popplewell, James Allen, Rhiannon Shaw

2017

WINNER: Riordan DJ
RUNNER-UP: Jack Gleadow
FINALISTS: Dillon Mapletoft, Harrison Charles as Alexander Feisteisterberg , Frank Foucault (real name Luke Smith), Haydn Jenkins, Tony Wright and Sam Knights.

2016

WINNER: Tom Gidman
RUNNER-UP: Rahul Kohli
FINALISTS: Adam Mastroianni, Roya Shadmand, Michael Odewale, Eric Rushton, Josh Jones and Morgan Rees.

2015

WINNER: Andy Field
RUNNER-UP: Liam Pickford
FINALISTS: Stephen Ryan, Cilleian Farrell, Lauren Pattison, Stuart McPherson, Joe Bowley

2014

WINNER: Jamali Maddix
RUNNER-UP: Jack Gillespie
FINALISTS: Alan Irwin, Elie Kraft, Red Redmond, Stephen Ryan, James Ball, Daniel Harvey as Pierre Pierre, Alex Oliver

2013

WINNER: Rio Bauer
RUNNER-UP: Nathan Willcock and Adam Todd (shared)
FINALISTS: Conor Neville, Evelyn Mok, Tim Renkow, Matilda Wnek, Richard Perry

2012

WINNER: Kwame Asante
RUNNER-UP: Jonny Pelham
FINALISTS: Pierre Novellie, Dalia Malek, Sebastian Bloomfield as Johnny F Monotone, Hari Sriskantha, Adam Mitchell, David Elms

2011

WINNER: Adam Hess
RUNNER-UP: Glenn Moore
THIRD:Richard Hanrahan
FINALISTS: Richard Stainbank, Richard Hanrahan, Rob Carter, Richard Gadd, Chris Quaile, Matt Winning as Steph E Graph

2010

WINNER: Phil Wang
RUNNER-UP: Matt Rees
FINALISTS: Matt Richardson, Ed Patrick, Matt Winning, Emerald Paston, Ian Smith, Nicholas Cooke, Max Dickens

2009

WINNER: Joe Lycett
RUNNER-UP: Iain Stirling
FINALISTS: Mat Ewins, Gabriel Ebulue, Tom Rosenthal, Nicola Bolsover, Sam Gore, Laura Lexx, Max Dickens, Dominic Cross, Laurie Blake, Will Scrambler

2008

WINNER: Jack Heal
RUNNER-UP: Simon Bird
FINALISTS: Jez Scharf, Ian Smith, Danny McLoughlin, Gareth Morinan, Richard Stainbank, Paul Longley, Joseph Wilson, Jon Brittain and Chris Ramsey

2007

WINNER: Tom Deacon
RUNNER-UP: Rodney Marques
THIRD: Prince Abdi
FINALISTS: Andy Vaugham Dave Steele, Ed Patrick, Dean O’Callaghan, Kerry Howard, Thomas Neuemark, Mickey Anderson, Dave Howarth, Ed Gamble as Selsdon Krupp, Bethany Black

2006

WINNER:: Donnchah O’Connail
RUNNER-UP: Chris Martin
FINALISTS: Paul Hayfield, Darren Richman as Mr Headmaster, Tony Richardson, Simon Bird, Andy Vaughan

2005

WINNER: Nathan Caton
RUNNER-UP: Luke Catterson
FINALISTS: Paul Byrne, Ian Hunter, Tony Richardson, Symon Garner, Idil Sukan, Ben Travis, Kai Barron

2004

WINNER: Lloyd Langford
RUNNER-UP: Mike Belgrave
FINALISTS: Dave Sayers, Ian Hunter, Dec Munro,, Tom Bright, Bullett and Gunn, Elliott Tiney, Luke Buckley, Jarlath Regan, James Bench Capon, Demitris Deech, Paul Byrne

Published: 3 Sep 2015