Might be a bit late, but personally I've always found like dutchy said its gonna hurt either way therefore best way for me would be to just "rip the band aid off" and say it how it is. Best do it as soon as you can so they dont spent too much time with said person
Hope this helps if it's not...
Hey I'm not disagreeing, I've been on in the morning when they asleep and also at evening when they awake and the chat had a very different feel to it, defo prefer when its just the Europe squad
I've been on a few calls with peeps from mana and other servers (shhh dont tell anyone I play other servers) and it's always been fine, met some proper canny people