I have been playing Unreal Tournament 2000 in LAN at the office with veteran players-- my opponents are excellent and their skill is better than the bots of "God-like" difficulty. I am now a mid-rank player in a pool of 7 to 10 players. However after playing the game for a while, I noticed some common behaviors among the losers:

1. After getting badly defeated, a loser instantly takes a busy look-- as if he has never played any game (not just a moment ago-- but ever). The loser instantly takes papers and copies and starts talking to the colleagues in a way as if he was talking about work for quite a while.

2. Some losers use this excuse: I was away for the last four days.

3."My mouse was not working properly" (I used this excuse)

4. "I was sick yesterday-- I am still not up to the mark"

5. "Phone calls took away my frags"

6. "I changed my glasses.. this is giving me such a headache" (another of my own excuse)

7. "My PC sucks... bet you could never even score 1 frag with my PC!"

8. "You thought I lost? Well, X is 10 frags below me!"

9. The excuse I liked most: Well I entered 10 minutes after the game started! I could barely play for 5 minutes!

10. There is a competition among the last few players to not to be the last one. Among them, there is a suicidal tendency; after one colleague (Perv_Heart) lost a game badly to me (from bottom end, that is), he was telling another colleague-- how can I swallow this!! My prestige is gone!

Names taken by the players are also very interesting; they include Perv_heart, deadman, bra-snatcher, etc. etc!