I should take this moment to clarify a few things while we&#039;re on the subject. <br /><br />1). LB is a friggin&#039; beast. He is one of the few guys who is capable of carrying a team because of his versatility and high level IQ play (even though he makes the occasional dumb play). I&#039;m not hatin&#039; on the guy at all, he&#039;s one of my favorite doomers to spectate and I&#039;ve always enjoyed competing with and against him (I hate competing against him more than anything because he&#039;s the biggest homo shit talker mid-game). Other than that, I can&#039;t really knock a guy for having a phenomenal season. <br /><br />2.) With the comeback player of the year vote, it&#039;s my opinion that this doesn&#039;t mean a player who&#039;s come back from a long time off or anything along those lines. In fact, the players who weren&#039;t playing last season who&#039;ve been candidates worth mentioning (i.e. Humanbones, Dev, Gilga) are players I expected to have good seasons. How can I label them as comeback players when they&#039;ve never really had bad seasons to begin with? That&#039;s why my vote went to RottKing. There&#039;s no doubt he&#039;s been stellar in the past and even last season, he was decent and played for a team that got to the conference finals. However, it&#039;s been pretty obvious the dude has played much better this season when you consider the fact that Jenova hardly frags. Last year, he had Ralphis running and Ralph frags a ton as a runner. He doesn&#039;t really frag it up like Whiteboy or some other aggressive runners do, but much more so than Jenova does. Also, I think it&#039;s fair to assume that most people didn&#039;t envision BSK being as successful as they were. Most people didn&#039;t expect RottKing to be has good as he has been either. So, in a few simply placed words, RottKing is the comeback player of the year because he&#039;s been ballin&#039; all season when nobody expected it. <br /><br />Now, back onto LB winning the award. As time has gone on and I&#039;ve had more time to watch some footage on him, I will say that I don&#039;t necessarily disagree with this pick. The issue I have with him being the MVP is that so many have made the claim that he&#039;s been the all-purpose guy for BBC. This is partially true but the reality is, BBC would be absolutely nothing without Stall.<br />People have made a big deal about his ping and spiking, but if that&#039;s the case, then if anything, it should even further make a case for Stall. He&#039;s had the highest frag ratio by far while also being 3rd in frags per round. The only reason why he isn&#039;t at the top of fraggers is because he&#039;s played in less rounds than most of those guys. So my argument for LB not being MVP is more because I feel like BBC literally couldn&#039;t replace Stall but they would still be semi-decent without LB. Would they be MB contenders without him? Of course not. That would be an idiotic claim. But as good as LB is, a flag runner is only going to cap as many flags as the defender keeps in base, and that&#039;s why Stall is so important to their success. <br /><br />The other argument is for/against mike. I would agree that mike has definitely been an MVP candidate this season but let&#039;s remember that both KNF and BBC have had FLS in their division. While I take nothing away from them, KNF definitely profited off of FLS being in their division than BBC did. Overall, BBC played a much tougher schedule as they had to compete against the best IDC team in SUC and against us, both of which were no easy matches. KNF, on the other hand, has had one of the easiest schedules in the league playing DMC once and FLS twice. 3 easy wins right there. So, let&#039;s put KNF in BBC&#039;s shoes and chances are, they have two less victories. That being said, regardless of the above mentioned facts, you can&#039;t really fault a team for who they play. And regardless, mike is truly the reason why BBC has been able to knock off good teams on occasion. And the reality is, LB has much better teammates around him. I know you could make the argument for mikehail based upon this and mikehails flag-cap amount is a perfect example of how critical it is to have a dominant defender (or at least a good one). He had nostar last season and almost eclipsed 50 flags if I&#039;m correct. He&#039;s done less than that this season mostly because he&#039;s been more all-purpose while not having the defense/mid-coverage he&#039;s had in the past. But, for me, the reality is that mikehail being off KNF means they&#039;re possibly winless or only would have managed a few while BBC without LB probably still makes the post-season. <br /><br />So yeah, I would have probably elected mikehail based on the argument of mike/LB. I still stand by Jenova as my pick because most people write the guy off because he&#039;s a dick on occasion. I know he&#039;s had good performances from Dev and Rott but let&#039;s be frank, Dev and Rott aren&#039;t even on the same level defensively as Stall and Xen. Jenova also took a risk in drafting Rott and he&#039;s been highly successful this season. I think that risk is worth considering as another reason why to elect him MVP since it paid off so well. He&#039;s also leading in flag caps and BSK has played in the least amount of rounds this season (last I checked like 2 weeks ago they were, that could have changed now though) so you have to really consider that as well. <br /><br />So, in closing, I&#039;ll say this: LB is the man. I still love the kid to death and I wish him well. Don&#039;t strip him of the award, it wasn&#039;t a bad pick, just not the best. Congrats to the MVP of the IDLW 2011 season, LordBritish. Heil Hitler and move at godspeed. 