I've been lucky to never go against an opponent like this at all, everyone in my area is very good.

That being said people have different definitions on what is a bad loser or a bad winner. I've seen a lot of people put the people who moan about their dice and maneuvers into the list, I don't see that as being a bad loser and more being critical towards yourself. I do it in an attempt to make light of a bad situation.

It's very easy to see your opponents mood shift as the game doesn't go their way.

I too feel these emotions when I get a clean sweep against me. If I lose without doing anything I feel rather dejected and depressed and wondering how I could have done better. The most I do is forcefully place my dice back in its massive pile, although I usually apologies to my opponent and then make comedy by separating the dice that 'have failed me for the last time' from their brethren.

Then there are matches where its pretty even, I take down a ship or two and so does he, I love these matches. My favorite match in my entire history of playing this game is at a Store Championship in 2015, I had taken an all A-Wing squad, something no one in my area had seen before and thought wasn't viable and I made it to the top 4 tables in the last round of swiss, if I won, I'd make it to the top 8 cut. Sadly it wasn't to be as it came down to my A-Wing VS my opponents Defender, I had already taken down a shuttle, and a TIE Phantom, he had taken all of my ships but a green squadron. I opted for Target Lock instead of focus, and ended up getting shot down. I lost but I always remember the smile on my face after that match.

Facing 3 JumpMasters also ends up having my face falling and my brain saying "Oh Jeez...this isn't going to be fun at all..."

Not sure if I've had any bad losers off the top of my head, certainly not in person, maybe on vassal if ever.

I have had a few bad winners though

Was at a local tourny a month or two back where a mate was flying Autoblater + AC Ghost (plus some other ships I cant remember) and came up against TLT Ys and your standard Dash build. The Dash player proceeded to continually fly within R1 of the Ghost and lost 100 zip in the end.

Burst into tears and rage quit there and then. This was round two of what ended up being a 5 round day...

Burst into tears and rage quit there and then.

It's okay man. We can't win them all. Glad to see you climb back into the cockpit and fly again

Meant in good fun, of course. I know you were referring to your bud.

Was at a local tourny a month or two back where a mate was flying Autoblater + AC Ghost (plus some other ships I cant remember) and came up against TLT Ys and your standard Dash build. The Dash player proceeded to continually fly within R1 of the Ghost and lost 100 zip in the end.

Burst into tears and rage quit there and then. This was round two of what ended up being a 5 round day...

You play something that is MURDER at R1 and he is playing something that wants to stay at R2 and preferably R3. He continually gets caught at R1 and the game goes as expected. If he was flying that poorly then maybe quitting there was the best thing he could do.

My FLGS players are all pretty on the ball about being good sports. Closest I can think of was a ragequit in a 2v2 Epic match. Of course, losing Darth Vader and his other TIE Adv x1 to a single CR90 turbolaser each can be disheartening at best.

Haha, this is the part where I trash my opponents for having a bad day! Lookit all those noob tears! Oh I wish I had my skull chalice Alice! I'd slake this terrible thirst...

I get upset sometimes because I lost spectacularly or I made the mistake of playing someone unsavoury or I'm not having fun. I've cursed green dice to the amusement of my foe and I've come home after a bad match and furiously rolled dice looking for the betrayer. I have also beat my wife a little bit in the heat of the moment! Haha, no. Domestic abuse isn't funny.

I am a poor sport sometimes and I like that about myself. I think it makes me seem more genuine when I can come back the next match or the next day and have a good laugh about it. Hell, I think I have more fun losing sometimes because then I can get really mouthy. Oh look DC made another stunning maneuver, shoot my face please! Hey you only rolled one hit on four dice? I didn't give you permission to use my dice, give 'em back! Lol.

Also, what good is a friendship if it can't handle a little heat? If you and your friends can't get a little frustrated with one another once in awhile, how can you know they're really your friends? If two pals can't play a game and have an argument or two then how do you test that bond? Whitewater rafting?

With friends this behavior might be acceptable. After all they are our friends in spite of ourselves. With strangers I think you have to maintain some sense of decorum otherwise you become "that guy" the one no-one wants to play against unless forced to.

That's very true, when meeting new people you should try to be aware of their feelings too. Obviously you can't start a first date with a fart joke.

I was just trying to point out times when my own actions may have been seen as silly. Figured since we're all sharing our TFG stories I'd admit some of my own misdoings.

Would anyone else like to share a time they were a poor sport?

Was at a local tourny a month or two back where a mate was flying Autoblater + AC Ghost (plus some other ships I cant remember) and came up against TLT Ys and your standard Dash build. The Dash player proceeded to continually fly within R1 of the Ghost and lost 100 zip in the end.

Burst into tears and rage quit there and then. This was round two of what ended up being a 5 round day...

You play something that is MURDER at R1 and he is playing something that wants to stay at R2 and preferably R3. He continually gets caught at R1 and the game goes as expected. If he was flying that poorly then maybe quitting there was the best thing he could do.

I don't know. I've had a tournament where I had an awefull start and flew just unforgivably bad (used 2 B-Wings, a TLT Y-Wing and a Conner Net K-Wing, didn't get a single Net off). So after standing 0 - 2 with bad MoV I just surrendered all ambition and started teaching the newer players I went up against (Wait, spend your TL before you Focus, you might roll more results that way and stuff like that) and still had a pretty good day maing new friends.

The only one i can think of is myself...

I was having a very bad day, i had been on a losing streak all day, but trying to stay positive. Come game 3 i'm actually winning. His Kyle Katarn bit the dust, none of my ships had taken a single point of damage, and i'm about to corner his Poe with my Poe and Red Ace. The plan was to TRoll my Poe right behind his Poe at range 1, as my stresshog had hit him the round before and he was still stressed, so my 4 unmodded dice had a really good chance against his unmodded 2 dice. But i'm really tired, i'd been there since noon and it was almost 6 by that point, barely eaten(as i usually do), had the tournament jitters(are they really tournament jitters when they happen all the time, though?) and i made a mistake. I forgot to set a dial on Poe.

Opponent 3 hard-turns him off the edge, and that was it. My tactical advantage disappeared and i felt absolutely crushed. The entire purpose of playing that match or playing at all disappeared before my eyes, and i barely said a word for the rest of the match. To my credit i didn't give up until it was over, but i immediately sunk into a pit of depression. We both knew he won because i forgot to play the game, and while i didnt outwardly say as much, through my attitude i made sure he knew it. All i can really say in my defense is that i never get mad at my opponent. If there is anyone to get mad at, it's myself, unless i catch my opponent cheating or something, which has never happened. I have nothing but good things to say about most of my opponent in X-Wing.

He went on to go 3-1 and i went on to go 1-3 and get last place. To this day i'm still furious at myself for that mistake. I knew i would have won that game. I could have gone 2-2 and at least made somewhere middle of the pack.

The only other thing i can think of is one that i never actually saw, but heard of. The guy that i played in Game 4 at that same tournament had a reputation for getting really angry. Everyone gathered around to tell me a story about how one time, after he lost, he swept his hand across his decimator and flung it across the room, literally impaling itself into the wall.

That this thread is 5 pages makes me sad. I try so hard not to remember the bad games. If you learn nothing, keep nothing.

Dice are dice, and people have lapses in composure. Dwelling on it only brings baggage to every other game.

That this thread is 5 pages makes me sad. I try so hard not to remember the bad games. If you learn nothing, keep nothing.

Dice are dice, and people have lapses in composure. Dwelling on it only brings baggage to every other game.

Remembering bad games is not the worse thing to do. I thing read about such things can prepare you to react properly when something similar happens to you.

That this thread is 5 pages makes me sad. I try so hard not to remember the bad games. If you learn nothing, keep nothing.

Dice are dice, and people have lapses in composure. Dwelling on it only brings baggage to every other game.

Remembering bad games is not the worse thing to do. I thing read about such things can prepare you to react properly when something similar happens to you.

or if it's your own story, to help you learn from your mistakes so you don't have another bad story to tell in the future. I've obsessively checked 3 times per activation phase to make sure i've put a dial on each ship ever since that match.

That this thread is 5 pages makes me sad. I try so hard not to remember the bad games. If you learn nothing, keep nothing.

Dice are dice, and people have lapses in composure. Dwelling on it only brings baggage to every other game.

Thats just the human mind. Have 10 great games and they will fade and mash together pretty quickly. Have 1 bad one and it will dwell on you for a long time. Its the same reason why Youtubers often get so frustrated by their comments, because even if they are 90% positive and encouraging, the 2% of mean things will stand out to them more.

This guy was playing my friend in a mirror match last year. Chewy/Leebo builds. In the last round, he landed on a roid because he chose the wrong direction of his maneuver. My friend finished his Chewy, and the guy freaked. My buddy tried to be nice and console him and he started yelling and swearing at him. Then he started crying and stormed out of the venue! You can't make that up.

This guy was playing my friend in a mirror match last year. Chewy/Leebo builds. In the last round, he landed on a roid because he chose the wrong direction of his maneuver. My friend finished his Chewy, and the guy freaked. My buddy tried to be nice and console him and he started yelling and swearing at him. Then he started crying and stormed out of the venue! You can't make that up.

Started crying? omg...

I only had 2 incidents. Once I played against an Imp Aces player that lost his inquisitor due to a bad roll and using palp on an earlier attack roll. He ended up throwing his Tie Adv Proto model through the store, calling it a sh*tty ship.

The other was where my opponent was ahead on points when time was called and we were in the last turn. He ended up doing a silly K-turn with one of his arc dodgers, right in front of my soontir. I one shot the actionless model and he ended up giving his chair a hard shove sideways, which ended up bouncing through the venue.

These were the extremes I experienced

That this thread is 5 pages makes me sad. I try so hard not to remember the bad games. If you learn nothing, keep nothing.

Dice are dice, and people have lapses in composure. Dwelling on it only brings baggage to every other game.

The sting of defeat lasts far longer than the glow of victory. This is just human nature.

I've played in only one store tourney which was about 3 months after I started with X-wing. Lost all three games. Absolutely poor play on my part. I think I made EVERY noob error at least once during those games including the cardinal sin of not knowing my list.

Anyhow, after the second match was over the TO was asking how many points I killed and my opponent answered for me. "Zip, zero, nada zilch. He didn't score a single point against me".

Rubbing salt into the wound. Not a mark of good sportsmanship.

That this thread is 5 pages makes me sad. I try so hard not to remember the bad games. If you learn nothing, keep nothing.

Dice are dice, and people have lapses in composure. Dwelling on it only brings baggage to every other game.

Don't get sad. Consider how many games are played, even casual ones, and there's bound to be some bad behavior. Some people do have lapses in composure and it's understandable, being human and all but some people are rectal orifices and there's little we can do about that.

first time i played in a local store was against a 'well known' local gamer,
(Read Well Known to mean a total and utter W&$k3R)

he proudly set up with 4 Red Emp Guard TIE Interceptors tricked out

then whilst i set up told me how many games and store events hey's played this with and won

I set up my list created by a random generator (Fabs) a Falcon, Hwk and B-wing i think

we got into the 2nd turn and he turned them all into the center of the board in front of my ships

i moved 1 forward and destroyed 3 without blinking an eye (totally beginners luck with the dice)

he limped around the board for another 2 turns before i got him

He packed up his stuff and we didn't see him again for over 2 years

he was recently introduced to me and feigned not knowing me

that was until i reminded him of our game

FBJ

I once had a losing opponent do over $600 of damage to my car in the parking lot outside. I had to replace the front right wing of my car, the mirrors, and one of the lights. Took me ages to match the paint so I drove around for months with a really white trash look to my car until I was able to find and then buy the paint.

That all said, it was totally worth that money just to see his face as he bounced off the hood of my car and if I saw him walking back to his car again, I would do the exact same thing without hesitation.

Also, the look on his wife's face was priceless.

I once had a losing opponent do over $600 of damage to my car in the parking lot outside. I had to replace the front right wing of my car, the mirrors, and one of the lights. Took me ages to match the paint so I drove around for months with a really white trash look to my car until I was able to find and then buy the paint.

That all said, it was totally worth that money just to see his face as he bounced off the hood of my car and if I saw him walking back to his car again, I would do the exact same thing without hesitation.

Also, the look on his wife's face was priceless.

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I didn't get it. He ruined your car because of an X-wing match? And you did what?

I once had a losing opponent do over $600 of damage to my car in the parking lot outside. I had to replace the front right wing of my car, the mirrors, and one of the lights. Took me ages to match the paint so I drove around for months with a really white trash look to my car until I was able to find and then buy the paint.

That all said, it was totally worth that money just to see his face as he bounced off the hood of my car and if I saw him walking back to his car again, I would do the exact same thing without hesitation.

Also, the look on his wife's face was priceless.

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I didn't get it. He ruined your car because of an X-wing match?

And you did what?

I once had a losing opponent do over $600 of damage to my car in the parking lot outside. I had to replace the front right wing of my car, the mirrors, and one of the lights. Took me ages to match the paint so I drove around for months with a really white trash look to my car until I was able to find and then buy the paint.

That all said, it was totally worth that money just to see his face as he bounced off the hood of my car and if I saw him walking back to his car again, I would do the exact same thing without hesitation.

Also, the look on his wife's face was priceless.

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I didn't get it. He ruined your car because of an X-wing match?

precisely, how did you not get that from the above?

And you did what?

about 22 MPH, but there wasn't much run-up so that was about as fast as I could get it.

I once had a losing opponent do over $600 of damage to my car in the parking lot outside. I had to replace the front right wing of my car, the mirrors, and one of the lights. Took me ages to match the paint so I drove around for months with a really white trash look to my car until I was able to find and then buy the paint.

That all said, it was totally worth that money just to see his face as he bounced off the hood of my car and if I saw him walking back to his car again, I would do the exact same thing without hesitation.

Also, the look on his wife's face was priceless.

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I didn't get it. He ruined your car because of an X-wing match?

precisely, how did you not get that from the above?

And you did what?

about 22 MPH, but there wasn't much run-up so that was about as fast as I could get it.

Listen, I get he was totally out of line and everything, but I'm not sure running him over is the answer.