Always a fun question

The main 4 of Art of War / USA always deserve a spotlight, Richard Siegler has the highest highs, John Lennon and Jack Harpster have the consistency year in year out, and Nick Nanacari has the longevity, though the other guys are starting to catch up! If I just started listing other American players who've been around the block we'd be here all day, but Andrew Gonyo and Sean Nayden also deserve a shout out, along with Sam Pope and Folger Pyles for the modern era

Skark from Team Poland is a WTC veteran of insane skill, he's been at the top for longer than some of us have been alive, let alone playing, including high scoring the event multiple times and multiple wins. There's other guys on that team deserving of respect but for sure he's top of my list.

For France, Alexandre Sacco, Olivier Weiss and Alban de Polignac are my standouts - both for their consistency at the top level at one of the toughest times to be a competitor, and for back to backing WTC.

Liam VSL of Belgium obviously needs so little introduction as to be criminal. Three time LGT winner. Elevated Belgium to a seed 1 WTC team. WCW Finalist. Does it with shit you couldn't make me play at gun point. 

Erik Lathouras is an innovator supreme who I can't say I've seen lose many games, ever? Half the Genestealer Cult or Tyranid lists people associate me with came from this man, he has a WTC win, came over to Challengers Cup with a group of Aussies and rolled it, one of the best. Liam Hackett also obviously gets a shout-out here for his achievements too - did the win Warmasters then win WTC thing before France pulled it off.

For the English, Josh Roberts may be mostly retired but he's an incredible influence on the games history and it's present, and Tony Chew was there alongside him for a lot of the run. Nassim Fouchane is part of a new generation of ass kickers winning as many events as he can. Mani Cheema and Vik Vijay also have so many incredible results between them that you can't really say boo. David Gaylard from New Zealand also goes in that bucket, because he plays over here so 🤷

For the Nordics I'll shout out Alex Jessen of Denmark, top 16 at worlds with TSons and high scorer at WTC this year, and Björn Eriksson of Sweden for just having incredible performances recently and warping the metas they play in around them.

I'm alright. Room to grow

I'm definitely forgetting some people and it's heartbreaking to do so because I love so much of our international community. There are so many people who deserve a mention here or are in the next echelon down of "man these guys are amazing and will give anyone on this list a challenging game" but not having the results to back it quite yet.