Xen I totally agree with your point except for a few things:<br /><br />About mid:<br /><br />You don&#039;t have to have 20 ping to be an effective mid. As long as you&#039;re damaging to help the defender, you&#039;re being effective. The problem really starts with providing back-up for your runner. Your shots have to be spot on, your reaction has to be quick and you have to not be dead at the time your flag runner arrives in mid. Higher latency definitely makes this tougher but not impossible. Generally though, at an IDL level of play, you need more than that from mid and defense. It&#039;s why Euros generally run.<br /><br />Also, there is a huge difference between mikes/xen&#039;s 100ms ping than there is Nati&#039;s. There&#039;s an ocean in between Nati and the server, not one in between Xen or Mike. And believe me, that makes a [b]huge[/b] difference. PL is much more incredible and everything is just not as dependable. <br /><br />I would say it&#039;s definitely not impossible to defend/mid with 100-140ms ping. Xen and Mike have done it before and it&#039;s essentially become Xen&#039;s calling card. But having a Euro do it is much less reliable for the reason I just mentioned. If it wasn&#039;t then you&#039;d certainly see more Euros defending. Because guys like Turska and Gyross have awesome shots, I&#039;m sure they might be defenders on their soil, so when they resort to running here, you kind of get the idea.<br /><br />