Winter Champions Slot Review

Winter Champions Slot Overview

I have spent a fair bit of time with Winter Champions, and it came across as a relaxed sports slot rather than a hardcore grind. The action sits on a 5x4 grid with 1024 ways to win, framed by snowy mountains, a busy ski slope, and a hockey rink. Instead of human athletes you get a squad of animal contenders, which keeps the tone light even when the balance swings about.

Winter Champions leans on frequent nudging reels and three distinct bonus games rather than overloading the base play. Wins trigger Rolling Respins that move the reels down and can string several hits together from a single paid spin. When three wilds land, you choose between Ski Jumping, Ice Hockey, or Curling bonuses, each built around those same rolling mechanics, all chasing a headline prize of 6000 times stake.

Winter Champions Slot Information

On the numbers side, Winter Champions runs with a 5 reel, 4 row layout and 1024 payways. Stakes start at 10 pence and climb up to 150 per spin, so there is room for low and high rollers. The default RTP sits at 96.10 percent, though operators can pick lower settings of 94 or 86. Hit frequency is quoted at 22.39 percent, with medium volatility and a max win of 6000 times bet.

Winter Champions Symbols and Paytable

Ice block style royals handle the low end in Winter Champions, with 10, J, Q, K, and A paying 0.30 to 0.40 times stake for five of a kind. Above them sit the animal athletes, which cover the stronger picture symbols. Penguin, walrus, polar bear, and tiger characters pay from 1 to 3 times bet for a full way, so decent clusters can shake up the balance in both base and bonus play.

The trophy icon in Winter Champions works as both wild and scatter. As a wild it replaces regular paying symbols and can appear once per row, which helps to tidy up awkward gaps during Rolling Respins. When three or more trophy wilds land on the same spin they also act as scatters, triggering the bonus selection screen where you pick which winter sport feature to run with.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	5	x3
	4	x1
	3	x0.4
	5	x1.4
	4	x0.6
	3	x0.2
	5	x1.2
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.2
	5	x1
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.2
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	Wild

Winter Champions Slot Features

In live play, the standout feature in Winter Champions is Rolling Respins. Any win makes all reels drop by one symbol while a fresh row appears above, which can repeat as long as new wins form. It feels similar to cascading reels but with a slow, sliding effect that suits the snowy theme. Long chains are not constant, yet they arrive often enough to keep standard sessions from feeling flat.

Triggering the Winter Champions bonus games relies on lining up three or more trophy wild scatters on one spin, either in the base game or during a Rolling Respins sequence. When that happens you are taken to a menu where Ski Jumping, Ice Hockey, and Curling sit as equal choices. Non UK jurisdictions can also pay 50 times bet for direct access, skipping the grind and heading straight to that pick screen.

Winter Champions Bonus Games

In the Ski Jumping Bonus on Winter Champions you start with six Rolling Respin chances. Each non winning roll removes one chance, while every successful cascade climbs you one step up a 29 rung prize ladder. Threshold prizes begin at 5x, 10x, 25x, 50x, 100x, and 1000x stake, and wild symbols can raise these up to 25x, 50x, 125x, 250x, 500x, and 5000x before you are paid the best reached.

In the Ice Hockey Bonus on Winter Champions you again receive six Rolling Respin chances. Puck shaped coin symbols appear with values from 1x to 500x stake and can attach themselves to regular pays. Goal collector symbols land with multipliers from x2 to x10, sweeping up every visible coin and multiplying their combined value. After a collection, the goal turns into a wild, giving the round another way to connect lines.

The Curling Bonus in Winter Champions strips things back to coins and blockers only. You start with three 1x coins and six Rolling Respin chances, while new coins drop and slide down the grid, stacking up when they reach the bottom. Each respin that fails to add a coin removes one chance, and when the round ends full columns apply x5, while full rows apply x2, x8, x40, or x150 to every coin in that line.

Winter Champions Slot Verdict

Walking away from Winter Champions, I see it as a pleasant winter sports slot that leans heavily on its trio of bonuses. The base game feels quite steady, carried by Rolling Respins rather than extra modifiers, and can drift into patches of dead spins before the next feature. I had the most fun in the Ice Hockey mode, though all three bonuses mix things up enough to make longer sessions playable.

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