First, congratulations to Avast for being awarded 2018 Product of the Year by AV-comparatives. That's great, being honored like that by the first certified EICAR Trusted IT-Security Lab, but...
Second, why is it that Sophos is never one of the vendors in any of these tests? When AV was my responsibility, I ran my own tests using honeypots, and Sophos was almost always the number one preventive AV. Whenever I see these articles, Sophos is never one of the vendors tested. What gives?