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Right around Christmas a few years back I was playing Soul Calibur 6 in ranked. Got matched up against this one Sophitia, ended up playing them for like 5-6 hours straight. At first they were whooping me, then after a few hours of constantly losing without taking a round (but gradually getting closer and closer) I started actually winning rounds. Then I even managed to take the occasional game off them.

But at the end of that session, it's game point, we're both within kill range. I've realized they have a habit of using a particular grab of hers to close out rounds, so instead of trying to force a win I decide to back off and let him run up to me and let him land the grab so I can break it and try to punish.

The dude runs up to me, pauses and blocks in my face, I do nothing. He grabs me. It's the exact grab I was expecting, my brain cheers that he fell for it, I can taste the win.

Then my fingers, in an act of grand betrayal, input the wrong throw break.

Sophitia crushes my head between her thighs to kill me for the umpteenth time, and I nearly threw the controller onto the floor. I quit out of the lobby and sent him GGs and asked for any advice, he friended me and gave me a tip I don't remember about one of my habits, and then we never played each other again.

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I looked him up later because he mentioned some kind of social media on his profile and it turned out he was a tourney player from... France I think? Somewhere over there. So I felt a little bit vindicated at least, but I'm still pissed that I didn't tech that fucking throw.