1) I didn't want Kofu. Sometimes I'm gonna go against the grain with these decisions.
2) BTC, don't know him. I'll take a look and see.
3)NB it's not whether or not you can beat the person (Full disclosure, I have beat both.) It's the level of play that both exhibit. With those two, I can easily say "If they were in a tourney, I know they would place high." MAD has a lot of that (Knubs, Josh, Cubone). HOR has that with Prince Ramen (he's a regular @ WATO) & others methinks. That is the level I want to reach. Don't take any antipathy out of it, I think it's a goal that we should all reach together. That will happen in two ways: 1)We play each other a hell of a lot more & 2)We play a lot of OTLs.
The Faux Finder is neither here nor there for me, since it isn't on the boards proper per se. However, if you can manage to bring a few FFs along for the ride, then by all means.