The G.O.A.T

[RadiantCowbells]

I find it interesting that besides myself and Nachomamma and LLD none of the players mentioned in this thread are anything that would approach modern players.

I feel like some of the people from the playing from 2013 onward crowd should get together and discuss who they think are the best of the people who still play / made their name recently.

[RadiantCowbells]

Your old guard is someone else's newbie

Sure. But of the people who play in the era I would consider 'my' era- and I'm fully aware that Nacho and LLD predate me by a significant margin- none besides me were mentioned.

And my mention was not one that was readily agreed on by others.

[RadiantCowbells]

And that's with the caveat that I consider myself a year and a half past my peak. I find it hard to believe that no one played excellently enough in 2016 or so far in 2017 to be worth adding here.

[RadiantCowbells]

I think that everyone who is overall good at town now has games that are too recent where they were town and just totally fucked stuff up and that makes it difficult to name them.
In like, 2-3 years, I think the collective memory will be much better at determining who actually was good at town in the present than we can come up with now.
Or another way of saying: I think that Vecna and Leon are so highly regarded because they haven't been around long enough to have royally fucked up some games that everyone will hold against them.

For everyone else, the marks against them are too near.