That is a clear example of the existance of servers causing an unnatural redirection when you both could be playing on a direct and perfect connection with no third parties involved increasing a hop and doubling input delay, not to mention that you surely have a really bad latency to the german server which is the point I made above about being redirected to far away servers and being at an unfair delayu disadvantage.

You guys could be playing at about 50ms on P2P with only 3 or 4 input delay animation frames, instead of 20 or 30 you suffered while the german player was playing smoothly being close to the server.