I Ran a Contest to Find the Best Gamer in the World 

The best decision youtube ever made since ending rewind in 2018 was getting ludwig and letting him do his thing, love the events

Too bad Jerma failed the drug test, would have loved to see him compete

Please Ludwig, make this shit a yearly thing. We need this type of stuff at the top of Esports and with bigger player base and more games and better rules

Thank you so much for having me and giving me this opportunity! Had so much fun and made so many new friends despite my gaming not going the best 😂❤🎉

Can we all give a massive shout out to polite for editing 16 hours of footage

I’m shocked he managed to cut down the stream to an hour long video. Absolutely incredible content to watch, such a creative and well executed concept 🙌🏼

I wish I could've seen a Technoblade "cyberbullying gamers to be the greatest gamer" It would've been so good

I think what's really cool about this is seeing the MASSIVE diversity in talent. Some people truly are walking around with min-maxed technique & talents, and some people are balanced and try everything. There are so many ways to be the best, so many ways to be amazing. Even being "pretty good" or even "just ok" at something is awesome.

I cannot believe how Connor got robbed of qualifying in that fall guys round. Never seen someone fly through finish line and keep going

I am shocked and pleased Erobb made it so far. Dads everywhere vindicated.

ludwig and qt have revolutionised the streaming world, the events they've created are so amazing and really bring together the community

I know Smant isn't known for most of these games, but he did pretty respectably overall. Hope he comes back for next time.

Ludwig is the type of person to cheat during this event and still lose

I love how finals was between 2 people where whoever won it was a good story Erobb the eveyman vs the guy who had the toughest path to get there

Mad respect to aceu for being so encouraging during his post-match interview on cs, and crazy prediction to say the least!

Would've been nice to have a system where everyone competes on every game and accumulate points for that. And everyone picking or having the game that they are the best at.

I love how Zekken fully had the power to eliminate any 1 person he wanted

Crazy to think that the two finalists were facing eliminations together both day 1 and day 2

Really appreciate the editors matching the facecam borders to the team colour for rocket league. With how often the perspective flips around during that section it makes it much easier to follow as someone relatively unfamiliar with the game.

21:53 "Dormamu, I've come to bargain" had me dying

Rizzo, erobb and Jaiden all came out of nowhere and just popped off in this lmao they all did so much better than pretty much anyone would have guessed

Been as Ludbud for a minute and I genuinely think this was my favorite event that he's ran. So many different worlds of gaming and content that I've followed for years coming together with A1 production and structure made me glued to the VODs. The DDoS'ings was unfortunate but man it was so fun to watch

This event was really fun, I watched the full VODs of both Day 1 and Day 2! I was rooting for SmallAnt and BoxBox, and while they didn’t win it, they still did well! I barely knew any of the players at the start of this and now I feel like I’ve gotten to know so many new and different people! I’m excited for next year too, and I’m hoping Feinberg will play to represent the competitive Minecraft community!

Got to give it to Lud, nobody else puts on events like this. So good to watch, everyone who was involved killed it

People who didn't watch the stream please watch the vod literally 14 hours of pure entertainment. The video doesn't do it justice as this is one of the funniest/best streams i've watched in a while!

this event has the potential to be huge, so many streamers and so many games and if this continues yearly i ccan see this becoming a great event people will be excited for every year

"Hows mango doing this round?" *cuts to empty chair* I almost died laughing at that lmao

JERAX is a LEGEND and I am so happy to see him literally anywhere

bro i love the little interviews the Slime does, he brings so much character to the show, never change slime

Honestly so happy to see Jerax make it so far. One of my favorite players of all time.Dude innovated the hell out of DotA, and is one of the GOATS for sure.

If Technoblade was here he'd clean up

this event was really fucking cool, its creative and a really fun way to see the best in different games compete

Void is such a gamer, he was my pick in the beginning because he learns new games so quickly and gets so good at them. it's crazy

Would like for Levy to participate in this, he won against Ludwig in a lot of games, definitely a great gamer.

I did love the end where he's humble enough to speak for the voice of the audience with them saying do this, do that, it coulda been better and he's says yes absolutely but this is what it is this year in our first attempt hope you enjoyed.

Void’s run was so good. He played every game including the elimination games, and he still came on top. What a legend.

Honestly, this is my favourite event you've ever made, if this gets a sequel or two it would actually be so dope

21:52 followed up by the commentator saying “hit him with that “Dormammu I’ve come to bargain”” I was in tears 🤣

This is absolute pleasure content, i'm so gratefull for all you guys to contribute and create these kinds of events to convey emotions of excitement and make us remember why we love gaming so much! BIG UPS. (ps: alot of people take it for granted that this content is made, but it is not, hence the extra appreciation!)

This was such a fun event, thanks to everyone involved.

2:23 you cut out the funniest part of the joke! Ludwig: Do it Rizzo! Rizzo: I can’t! Rizzo: I DONT WANT HIM TO PICK ME IN STREET FIGHTER!

Sad about the Atari elimination section being skipped since both VoiD and Erobb who managed to survive ended up reaching finals. Nonetheless amazing edit, very engaging and easy to digest

Tbh always LOVE seeing creators get together for fun! Even if it’s not their best game it’s all friendly sport and at the end of the day it’s good content for everyone too 😂

YOU GOTTA DO A PART 2 THIS WAS ACTUALLY SICK ASF

What a dope event - loved seeing everyone having a great time. And shout out to my boy Jerax - what a gamer.

It was a pleasure working with you to bring Minecraft to life in this exciting tournament 🏆 Truly a wonderful event full of incredible people!

So glad smallant made it as far as he did. That man's got some dedication and it showed here today.

I'll say, this was super fun to watch. About 10 minutes left for me but damn what a fun show. I do think it was a little too loaded on shooter games. Minecraft and Fall Guys, and Rocket League and the racing game are different enough, sure, but Fortnite, CS:GO, xDefiant _and_ Call of Duty? Like do these make "best" gamers, or is this just a little too loaded on shooters? Especially when a lot of those gamers specialized in speedruns, tactical/strategy or variety content? At one point I felt bad for some of them because they just don't play shooter games, and yet 4 of them were in the shooter genre. We only got strategy games like Tetris towards the end, which was a little unfortunate. I would have loved to see a sports game instead of Call of Duty. Or like, even just Mario Party or Monopoly for the shits and giggles, maybe with a twist. Or a short game that has an easy-to-learn speedrun strategy, best time in an hour. Or an adventure game with a 1-hour timer to see how far people got. Board games would have been a funny little in-between game. "Best player for Shoots n Ladders gets an extra 2 points," or something like that,

6:09 Slime holding back the "storming the capital joke"

Honestly, void rlly earned his win on this, got paired with some pretty tough opponents in the cs and carried on the team fps battles, doing well fairly throughout, then having that clean win at the end with pong, GGs void, massive W

This was one of the best events ever held. SO AWESOME LUD!

Gotta love seeing clayster compete in this, one of the goats of comp cod and he immediately starts trash talking round 1 I love him🤣

> Jaiden going down a waterfall in Minecraft > "This is how cheetahs hunt" - Slime 2023

What a godlike tournament this was. Hats off to the organisers for getting such a good pool of players, it would've been a worse event if it had been mostly big streamers.

this has been personally the best event thus far its was amazing can't wait for next year!

It would be cool if Lud does this event again, but on the big stage with an audience!

I've watched dozens of Ludwig events, and this might be my favorite. You could tell everyone working on this had a lot of fun, and I hope there are more events like this in the future. Also S/O Polite for this edit--the best I've seen for a video like this.

kind of sad they cut out the Lego 2K part where Void was just casually doing a walkthrough while beating everyone😭

The streams were soo good I got to know new people who I would have never heard about if not for ludwig

Ngl this seems like it would be so much fun, my ego wants it, i love comp settings, and im pretty confident in my all around gaming ability, this was so fun to watch

Casually drops the entire event at 12:00 AM

Dad strength is strong, even in gaming

if only technoblade was here

Never thought id ever see aceu smallant and rizzo in the same video, this was awesome to watch throughout, even if youve never played some of the games.

Lud saying he was gonna quit streaming after 5 years just turned into him becoming the event and esports guy we all love

Ludwig the typa guy to drop one of his best videos in several months at midnight and make it an hour long

This is very interesting, i guess it’s really hard to determine the greatest gamer since you’ll need the current top dogs as representative for each game available and that can be too much for the production, insane concept, enjoyed it, love it!

I love the contrast in the thumbnail and at 0:43 between everyone's real faces, and then there's just *Jaiden* on the left.

This was such an awesome event! I hope this becomes a yearly thing!

53:46 i really love this specific point in the video. every person in the room huddling up together with drinks in their hand and watching a game of pong. they're even putting money on who wins i think idk lol

I absolutely loved this. I can't wait for another one.

never thought id see sonicfox and jaidenanimations competing against each other in a legitimate tournament

Ludwig always takes his ideas to the extreme, thanks for the entertainment.

This is honestly very close to my favourite Ludwig production/video ever.Absolutely phenomenal

Jaiden vs Sonic Fox in a RL 1v1 was not the crossover I was expecting to see today

What a great event! Loved this, awesome work Lud!

This event was so much fun, and I would LOVE for this to become an annual thing!

total respect for cutting down the time and if u have free time you should totally check out the full vod cuz the lego race and atari games were super fun imo

The way so many people were clowning on Erobb on twitter when this was announced, and now to see him do so well in this 👏👏👏👏👏

top 3 placings, jerax, erobb, void. not pros in any of the games featured, still made it top 3. just naturally good gamers. i think thats really cool. this competion was really fun to watch.

I feel like something should be included to represent strategy games, roguelikes, and the speedrunning community. Also that was a lot of FPS games.

This is sick, i hope more people do these events in the future. I love seeing all the steamers and pros in one place.

Love to see Yipes being part of the broadcasting team. He’s my favorite caster by far in any game. He is always entertaining.

Would love to see several different events where it’s “best shooting gamer”, “best fighting game player”, etc but anyone can enter. And THEN take the winners of all of those and then make it a “greatest gamer” tournament where it’s a bunch of different games. Would be waaaay more work with an open bracket but still would be dope.

This was an amazing event, Lud! I hope you do it again every year and keep improving on the brackets and game choices! This was badass!

T1 better be competing next year. The story line is legendary. Erobb's big brother competes to avenge him.

what an all star set of commentators, much love for yipes he always kills it

This is the event where I learnt lud has legit haters, not just meme hating...That was sad 😢 I'm glad it didn't bring him down too much n he still sees a silver lining ❤

ludwig is slowly becoming our generations next huge gameshow host

As a high level trackmania player, it was amazing to see how everyone played it especially Rizzo

Need one of these every year for sure. Make em defend the belt!

Amazing event. I find it hard to focus for 20 minutes sometimes but i watched both days start to finish. Really proud of Jerax and Smant for doing so well and love that Void won. More variety next time would be dope. Maybe Pokemon plus Wolfe?!?

One of RU-vid's greatest moves since the 2018 rewind was bringing Ludwig on board and letting him shine. Absolutely loving the events!

This was absolutely amazing. I always tend to hate all these events no matter what it is

For baking stuff, usually turning off the fan in the oven makes things a lot better. The airflow dries out the cakes.

This is so damn cool, hope you make this a regular event!!

I loved this event! Great job Ludwig and everyone that contributed. I know next year you will take it even further.Thank you for having my favorite streamer, boxbox!

To learn that during this event they been ddosed is so frustrating for the players and the people watching, but glad it turned out great especially the top 4 contestants hope they do this yearly

Good idea to have such a mix of games but weird to have eliminations since the game genres were so varied.

what a fantastic event, everyone got their moment