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yes but you're able to play without you can still see who won right :)

Yes, true. You can see the winners, but not the statistics.
Anyway, its not prioritary at all, but there it is :)

still an issue?

Yes, as of r3661, it still happens.

nah that's a 100 revisions ago, try a more later version

also, try with safe texture cache, could be the same issue as PAL Metroid Prime games

Letting it be known that this was reported again in Issue 2697. Still occurs with the most recent build (R5851).

Issue 2697 has been merged into this issue.

Yeah, but EFB to RAM is for all practical purposes unplayable... does this issue still count as invalid?

Think of "EFB to texture" as a speed hack for "EFB to RAM". The speed hack does not work for all circumstances and is the cause of this issue. There are many areas where performance can be improved in Dolphin. This is just one of them and does not need an issue to be raised for it.