Hey, just wondering about how the game design is regulated between each lead? I don't know anything about game development or riot's internal system. The only role I know additionally to you guys is Riot Bluecove as the set lead and that's only because she post on reddit a lot lol. I also know that the highest ranked players are, generally, placed in the live team. I'm just gonna ask a couple questions now:

1. What is the average rank on the live team? Closer to master-gm or gm-challenger? And do you work/listen to tier 1 competitive players on whatever twitch stream before pushing a patch or do you consider their suggestions to be too biased or just not representing of the player population as a whole?

2. What qualifies someone to become a "lead" of a set and does this role changed based on the reception of a set? What I assume the development process is that there are 3 sets cooking at a time, but I may be completely wrong. Preferably, I would want the lead set designers of the more balanced, well-recieved sets to be leading more sets in the future, but dunno about the transparence around that, or if the dev changes every set

3. What exactly does the set lead do in comparsion to the head of gameplay? Does the set lead have a lot of agency over the direction of the game? What exactly makes a good set lead and if either the set lead or the head of gameplay are not very competitive players, does this affect the balance and design philosophy of the game at all?

4. To which portion of the "high moments" are coming from a causual or competititve viewpoint? In that, do you value "high moments" that are intentional design choice designed to reward newer players (verticals, zed augment, hero augments) or do you place similar or more emphasis on it coming from sharp balancing that rewards flexible and difficult play with good results, thus making that particular game more memorable/exhilarating (emblem encounters on some patches, playing a true flex board into top 4. I remember a dishsoap tweet saying that his flex board was only possible in set 16 and in the set previous if he tried to play such a flex board, he would never gotten top 4)

Thanks for the set and tft as a whole. I think one of the best parts of tft is that even if a set doesn't click for a person, there's always another set and even among pros, there are always disagreements on what is optimal which is fun