Have you ever been to a tournament?
SO. I was at this USFIV tourney at a con. This is where I saw the two hypest matches I've ever experienced.
First match of the tourney and this cocky Brazilian fucker goes up and for his first match picks random..... A guy in the crowd "Watch him get Dan."
HE GETS FUCKING DAN.He then proceeds to play through this match, and win, as Dan.
Come to find out afterwards, he's not once even played Dan.
Another match, this one with a guy I had been chatting with throughout the tourney.
He played Dudley and was facing a Cody. The matches had been back and forth and really close. Finally, they had each one a round, this one was for the win. They both had practically no health left, one hit from either and the match is over. They're having a bit of a standoff since Dudley had full meter and Cody did not. They just kept sitting there trying to footsie around so finally some dude yells "THROW A ROCK" and that was it. The guy fucking listens and actually throws a rock. Immediately, Dudley does his Ultra (which as you may or may not know, can travel almost full screen and when he does it he ducks down slightly) and passes JUST under the rock and nails it to win the match.
Any stories about mad salt, be it from you or your opponent or someone nearby?
So, one of my few friends I was able to get into Fighters and "git gud" was, prior to, a HUGE salt spewing scrublord. I basically went through a long process and eventually de-scrubbed him. One of the crucial moments in this process was one when we were playing Skullgirls and we played nonstop for an hour or two straight. I had just started learning Parasoul and was doing pretty good and, uh... Er...
... Needless to say he was a tad irked and promptly ended what had mostly been a silent skype call.
A few days later we were playing again in the cafeteria at our Community College and he did a grab with Peacock and, being my main and therefore a character I understand fairly well, I pointed he could have followed it up with Argus Agony. That's it, not being a dick about, just casually mentioned it while we're fighting. He then proceeds to throw his controller down and yell something to the effect of "I'm so done playing with you" and stormed off. We then didn't play together for a couple weeks.
Thankfully, he perserveered and endured my tough but necessary training regiment and graduated from a scrubby little salt shaker! He's so much better now, just as a person!