Worst Defeats You've Given/Suffered to Human Competition

[Ascending Wordsmith]

Ever play a game that puts you and another player in a competitive situation, but the competitor is no where near your skill level? >)

I love when people challenge me to a game of Ice Hockey on the NES. I've actually made that game into pure science. Every possible shot at every possible angle at possible position at every possible strength has been noted and renoted by me. I know the ice rink better than the programming chip in the cartridge! My brother tried to contest me once. I of course, used the good ole' USA, while he selected the big, bad Soviets! I soundly defeated him to the score of 23-0 in a 21 minute game. The Miracle on Ice turned out to be The Massacre on Ice.

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On the flip side, I have taken some humiliating defeats. My brother got even many years later. He literally demolished me on Street Fighter Alpha 3. I'm a good fighter on 2D platforms; I'm a fighting whiz with Sagat, but my brother knows Shin Akuma's techniques to a tee. The first round, he trashed me, losing only 25% of his health. The second round, he only lost 10% of his health PLUS he finished me off with the Raging Demon (also known as Instant Hell Murder). Talk about humiliating! There were other people watching!

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What are some of your most convincing triumphs, and your most embarrassing defeats at the hands of human competition?

[jaydubnb]

My most embarrassing defeat came in a game of Gameday 98. Let me set the scenario...I was the reigning king of pigskin games in my neighborhood. No one was able to beat me for months on end. Then when I met this guy named David, a cousin of my buddy's, I was thoroughly broken. This rookie, who claimed to never have played many sports games in his life, soundly whipped me into humbleness. Final score: Him, 70+ points. Me: 10.

My most recent outstanding loss came in War of the Monsters just a day or two ago. I was using Congar and my friend was manning Kineticlops, both of us low on energy on the Tsunamiopolis level. We're both scrambling for low energy...he scales the side of a building looking for energy on the roof... i attempt to follow him...hit hits me with an electric zap...then he hurls a piece of junk @ the UFO hovering over the ocean, which for those who have played the name know, fires into the water, causing a hi damage tidal wave. Needless to say i was killed instantly. It was actually quite funny :) War of the Monsters is just one of those games were dying is just part of the fun, similar to Worms 2.

[ManekiNeko]

That's easy. I was in a Marvel vs. Capcom 2 tournament and had to play against some EXTREMELY cocky professional class player. Since I knew I was going to lose anyway, I decided to pick Dan Hibiki as one of my characters (I was really into him at the time). Well, after sufficiently whittling down my three energy bars, my opponent just puts down his controller and starts scribbling on a piece of paper. I look over and stare for a while, thinking, "What the hell is he doing?" After he finished thoroughly pounding my characters into the ground like a set of nails through plywood, he hands me the paper, with an autograph scrawled on the front.
That's right, folks. He took a little inspiration from Dan Hibiki and ended the match with a real-life Premium Sign. I still have the sheet of paper as proof.

JR

[jaydubnb]

That's easy. I was in a Marvel vs. Capcom 2 tournament and had to play against some EXTREMELY cocky professional class player. Since I knew I was going to lose anyway, I decided to pick Dan Hibiki as one of my characters (I was really into him at the time). Well, after sufficiently whittling down my three energy bars, my opponent just puts down his controller and starts scribbling on a piece of paper. I look over and stare for a while, thinking, "What the hell is he doing?" After he finished thoroughly pounding my characters into the ground like a set of nails through plywood, he hands me the paper, with an autograph scrawled on the front.
That's right, folks. He took a little inspiration from Dan Hibiki and ended the match with a real-life Premium Sign. I still have the sheet of paper as proof.

JR
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LMAO! Thats classic!

[ubersaurus]

On the flip side, I have taken some humiliating defeats. My brother got even many years later. He literally demolished me on Street Fighter Alpha 3. I'm a good fighter on 2D platforms; I'm a fighting whiz with Sagat, but my brother knows Shin Akuma's techniques to a tee. The first round, he trashed me, losing only 25% of his health. The second round, he only lost 10% of his health PLUS he finished me off with the Raging Demon (also known as Instant Hell Murder). Talk about humiliating! There were other people watching!


I'd hardly call Shin Akuma (who breaks the home version of Alpha 3) vs. Sagat (who sucks ass in Alpha 3) a fair fight ;p Normal Akuma already owns 8/10ths of the A3 cast, Shin Akuma is just overkill.

Anyhow, I remember my friend challenging me to that java version of the pdp-1 classic Spacewar...I won every round before he gave up after a half hour.

On the other hand, I've been beaten so bad in INTV Burgertime it's not even funny by another friend.

[Charlie]

I was in a Soul Caliber 2 Tournament back in November and myself and my opponent had a match so bad that we were booed right out of the place. We were both using Cheesehead (aka Raphael), and we totally stunk up the joint. We had several straight matches where nobody got a single unit of damage inflicted before the tournament director simply DQed both of us out of the tournament. Not a defeat, but pretty embarassing.

Best defeat I ever handed someone? A local game store had a Smash Brothers Melee tournament and I bet the owner I could win it with Jigglypuff, and I did using's Jiggly's totally cheesy "kiss that doesn't miss" move. I won a free game of my choice and took Resident Evil for the Cube.

[Cheese]

I threw a Christmas party a few years back and had an arcade theme. I had a few TV's with PSX's, my Vectrex and old Sega CD running Dragons Lair. To top it off, I 'borrowed' a video projector from my office and hooked up the Dreamcast up to it. We had a Soul Caliber contest with characters damned near life size. I had been playing the game non stop for a few months at that point, and was the Maxi master.

In came my buddy who never played games, he was already drunk and selected Sigfried. I figured, "no sweat, he's too slow, I'm gonna beat his ass." So the match begins and he just starts jamming on the buttons, he found the 'chump maneuver' and I never got close enough to hit him. I sat there stunned as we played three rounds and I never hit him more then a few times. I walked away defeated, luckily I had spent $200 on booze for the party so drowning my sorrows was easily taken care of.

My best was: I went to a friends place and he and his room mate had LAN'd up thier computers and had some jamming Unreal Tournament 2 sessions going. We sat there for two hours as they and two other guys took turns trying to beat me. I never left the chair. They then decided to try another game, Allied Assault, I chose the sniper rifle and murdered them for another 45 minutes until I got tired and then played only using grenades. It still took them 10 minutes to kill me. The guy who finally got me jumped around like he just climbed Kilamonjaro.

[scooterb23]

My greatest victory has to be my 75-2 drubbing of my best friend on World Series Baseball 95 on Genesis...

In an arcade, the fact that I won a Discs Of Tron tournament the first time I ever played the game, at age 8 I believe...I doubled everybody else's score

My biggest defeat...at home, it was losing to my own mom at 2600 Pac-Man...she got 350,000 I only scored 245,000 that day...then we played Kaboom, I think she got 5,000 I hit 850. Don't even ask about Circus Atari...I think she rolled it.

In an arcade, I got dusted at Mortal Kombat 3 in a tournament by a 5 year old standing on a stool...
:hmm:

[Charlie]

"I had been playing the game non stop for a few months at that point, and was the Maxi master"

Scum sucking bastard. You soulless piece of shit. Joe, I nominate Cheese for banhood. Proven fact that nothing good can come from someone who uses Maxi Pad in Soul Caliber. BAN HIS ASS NOW! He's the anti-christ! He'll kill us all! AHhhhhhhh!

I kid. But seriously, Maxi is banned from tournaments here. Why? Because of the cheese factor. There are Cheesey fighters, and then there is Maxi in a class of his own. Of course, Hwang and his three kick combo is a nasty cheese move too.

[Metrackle]

Best victory (recently, as in a week or two ago): It was my first day of playing Garou: Mark of the Wolves when a stranger decided to play against me. I was playing as Butt and he picked people such as Terry Bogard and Rock Howard. I dominated him for three sets. Come the fourth set, though, I lost, but it was pretty close. It was the final round (5th), and before my defeat, I was one hit from defeat and he still had around half his life left.

Worst defeats (both took place sometime last year):
Runner-up): It was my first day playing Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, when a stranger decided to play against me (I was losing against the computer anyway). I was Q and he was Ken, and this was back when I forgot that you could make Q tougher by taunting, and I was inexperienced. He dominated me. The only reason why I picked Q is because he looked cool. Little did I realize is that Q is not for beginners or anybody who thinks the taunt is useless.

Worst ever): I was playing Hydro Thunder and a little boy beat me.

[Tetsu]

My best friend, cousin and myself are Super Mario Kart (SNES) masters. Between the three of us, there is no trick, no impossible jump, nothing about the game we don't know. We have the game down to where we know the exact moment to jump so a red shell goes right under us. In my hands especially, the non-guided green shells are deadly (3-4 move bank shots). Against anyone else, Mario Kart is a joke. But when the three of us get together, the game progresses to an almost god-like level of fake-outs and mind games. Battle mode matches go on for fifteen minutes or more, usually ending when a stray shell finishes one of us off prematurely. Match races are neck and neck.

My cousin is also unbeatable in MvsC2. I picked my Dream Team of Wolverine, Cyclops and Cable, and he had Guile, Charlie, and Servbot.
His Guile was first, and his defense was bulletproof. I just couldn't damage him without receiving massive counter-damage. I finally beat his Guile with only one character and 1/8th energy left. Then his Charlie jumps in. We look at each other and crack up. I didn't mind how outclassed I was, too much, I guess. Some people are just better at some games than others. I can accept that.

I got rid of MvsC2 for DC and haven't played it since...

[Cheese]

I kid. But seriously, Maxi is banned from tournaments here. Why? Because of the cheese factor. There are Cheesey fighters, and then there is Maxi in a class of his own. Of course, Hwang and his three kick combo is a nasty cheese move too.

I just like the Elvis suit.

[buttasuperb]

That's easy. I was in a Marvel vs. Capcom 2 tournament and had to play against some EXTREMELY cocky professional class player. Since I knew I was going to lose anyway, I decided to pick Dan Hibiki as one of my characters (I was really into him at the time). Well, after sufficiently whittling down my three energy bars, my opponent just puts down his controller and starts scribbling on a piece of paper. I look over and stare for a while, thinking, "What the hell is he doing?" After he finished thoroughly pounding my characters into the ground like a set of nails through plywood, he hands me the paper, with an autograph scrawled on the front.
That's right, folks. He took a little inspiration from Dan Hibiki and ended the match with a real-life Premium Sign. I still have the sheet of paper as proof.

JR

I would have beat the shit outta him for doing that, and the money it would have cost to bail me out of jail would have been worth it.

As for me destroying someone...

Back when MK2 was the big game, I happened to find one for only a quarter somewhere in Wisconsin Dells. I soon realized it was a quarter because the computer difficulty was set at hardest. Finally some punk walked up and challenged me, and I proceeded to kick his ass 7 times in a row. He started bitching that I wasn't using any one else besides Scorpion or Shang Tsung, and backed away so I could lose to the computer. I lost the first match against the computer and backed away from the machine. He then played the computer and about halfway through his first round I challenged him again and proceeded to kick his ass another 7 or 8 times, each time finishing with a fatality or friendship. Now he was pretty much crying, and he stormed out of the arcade like a little bitch. LOL

Also, I destroyed all my friends in Madden 2001 and 2002 on the PS2. I probably had a combined record of 60-3. However back in the SNES days, a friend of mine probably had around a combined 30-5 record against me in Madden 94-96.

[MankeyMan]

I am the Perfect Dark master. Now, when I say master, I mean it. I can beat 8 Prefect Sims vs. me without losing a life in 10 minutes (Dark Sims are a different matter). Anyway, my friend and I had had Prefect Dark for abot 6 months, and he challenged me to a match. Now, he is the cockiest guy you could ever meet, and bragge about his prowess in the game about a week before we actually played.
Everyone of my friends was split about who would win, and as none of them had ever beaten us there was a fair bit of tension. The big day came, and about 8 of us were huddled around a TV in my friends bedroom. You could've sliced the air with a kinfe at that time, it was all about the pride and the honour. The scene was set, one hit kills, 6 sets of Falcons, 10 minutes, Felicity. The game started, I killed him 54 times and died none. I averaged almost a kill every 10 seconds. Best win ever.

My worst defeat was when I lost 4 - 0 at ISS64 to my 5 year old cousin. I don't want to talk about it, I was Brazil and everything.