World Games 2025: Ranking the Top 25 Players

Ranking the best players at the world's most competitive tournament.

September 9, 2025 by Edward Stephens, Keith Raynor and Sean Colfer in Analysis, Recap

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The World Games provide one of the sport’s most unique environments, a format unlike any other, where it feels like the level of play occasionally reaches previously untouched heights. Many of the best players on the planet are pressed to raise their game to meet the demands. It is a remarkable opportunity to see what they can do. But is also a handful of games in a setting unlike any other. So who stepped up their game on the world stage?

We had four analysts — Keith Raynor, Edward Stephens, Robyn Fennig¹, and Sean Colfer — combine to create an aggregate list of the 25 players they were most impressed by in Chengdu.

1. Conrad Schloer (Germany)

Schloer was a two-way wrecking ball, supremely disruptive on defense and supremely assertive on offense. He is now on one of the best multi-tournament streaks in World Games history.

2. Michael Ing (United States)

The best defender on the best defensive team at the tournament. Ing’s ability to generate blocks – a tournament-high seven – and then be an integral part of the offense on the turn² drove the USA’s formidable D-line and caused problems for every team they played. He took the most difficult matchup on pretty much every team and won plenty more than he lost.

1. Who voted, but did not author any of the writeup ↩

2. Ing registered an 8-goal, 3-assist line. ↩