Why does no one ever agree to surrender

[Anime-Profile-Picture]

Even when its clearly literally impossible. Why? Why waste time?

[Дед Дилдай]

Seems kinda gay to surrender ngl

[Steve]

Originally posted by mozzarxlla:

I think its an american thing ngl- i mean maybe not but I used to play league with an international group of friends and everyone except our american friends would be open to surrender

It is. The concept of surrendering, in American lore, is anathema no matter what. It's considered the last possible way to score any kind of "win" -- they may not have the W on the scoreboard, but at least they wasted someone else's time, even if it was just a little of it.

Not all of us are that way though. Some of us do understand that it's just a game and there's more important things to do than be petty about a loss.

[Kitt 🌟 Stargazer]

Losing matches are generally the ones you learn the most from. If you win, why change? If you lose, you'll teach yourself that something went wrong and you gives you an opportunity to look over how you play and how you can improve yourself so next time it won't happen again.

Losing is how you improve...

[Krazy Wallet]

Because a game is not lost until the buzzer sounds. I've had a few games already that ended up in a win when someone called for the white flag. I've actually had several wins across various games that people wanted to surrender. I remember a competitive game in rocket league where we were down 3 points with 1 minute to go. We scored 2 goals off kick off, took the next 45 seconds to get the third, and closed it out in OT.

[BRODAD3U5]

i had no idea this was even possible lol. We all just switch to dps and mess around.

[Steve]

Originally posted by Krazy Wallet:

Because a game is not lost until the buzzer sounds. I've had a few games already that ended up in a win when someone called for the white flag. I've actually had several wins across various games that people wanted to surrender. I remember a competitive game in rocket league where we were down 3 points with 1 minute to go. We scored 2 goals off kick off, took the next 45 seconds to get the third, and closed it out in OT.

No one's talking about a CLOSE match. I'm not even sure why you assumed they were, except to get in this anecdote even though it's very clearly not apt.

[Krazy Wallet]

Originally posted by Steve:

Originally posted by Krazy Wallet:

Because a game is not lost until the buzzer sounds. I've had a few games already that ended up in a win when someone called for the white flag. I've actually had several wins across various games that people wanted to surrender. I remember a competitive game in rocket league where we were down 3 points with 1 minute to go. We scored 2 goals off kick off, took the next 45 seconds to get the third, and closed it out in OT.

No one's talking about a CLOSE match. I'm not even sure why you assumed they were, except to get in this anecdote even though it's very clearly not apt.

My post was not about close games, might want to double check what I said. Perhaps you aren't familiar with Rocket League, but being down 3 points with one minute left is a huge deficit. As an example in rivals, there was a match in convoy the enemy steamrolled us on their push and ended with time left over. We then got spawn camped on our push until there was about 1.5 minutes left and finally got some traction. We completed all three points in OT, had a great hold in extra rounds, and ended up winning. When we were stuck in spawn when it was 3-0 on our attack, we had two teammates wanting to surrender.

[Wingnut Mcmoomoo]

Originally posted by Steve:

Originally posted by mozzarxlla:

I think its an american thing ngl- i mean maybe not but I used to play league with an international group of friends and everyone except our american friends would be open to surrender

It is. The concept of surrendering, in American lore, is anathema no matter what. It's considered the last possible way to score any kind of "win" -- they may not have the W on the scoreboard, but at least they wasted someone else's time, even if it was just a little of it.

Not all of us are that way though. Some of us do understand that it's just a game and there's more important things to do than be petty about a loss.

Its more of a sports thing if we're honest. If you're taught to lose gracefully then you'll play to the end of regulation and actually make it a game. Its not fun to win if the other team gives up.

People who grew up playing sports have more practice in losing gracefully and don't give up and treat it like wasted time to play a game and lose. Thats actual loser thinking to think that theres no point in playing a consequence free game to completion, Learning how to play while behind is an important skill in all competitive scenes and can only be worked on while getting beat. If you give up all the time instead of playing it out you'll be a much much worse player from it (and lose more games because you'll give up faster as you normalize it)

[OMEGA]

because giving up before the defeat screen is for wimps if you had a 0.1% chance of winning it goes to 0 its really kinda pathetic you cant even finish the match

[MynD€@†]

History repeats itself. Just ask France and Germany.