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26 | 37.14% |
| Hate losing, but okay if I win majority. |
  
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27 | 38.57% |
| A tie is perfectly fine with me. |
  
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2 | 2.86% |
| Don't care - fun of the game. |
  
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14 | 20.00% |
| I play up to 42 and then I kill the other person. |
  
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1 | 1.43% |
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08-03-2011, 11:11 AM
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How Competitive Are You?
I think I am pretty competitive, but only in the sense that I don't like to lose. Winning every time isn't as important for me.
For example, if I am playing someone in a 5-game set of something, I NEED to win at least 3, but I don't care if I win 3, 4, or 5. I bring this up because the other day I was playing a friend in tennis and I won the first three sets we played. He was getting kind of visibly upset (he's also very competitive and we are about equal skill), so I 'let' him win the 4th set so that he'd be happier (I use 'let' loosely, I didn't purposefully miss, but I went for less winners and played more defensively - which isn't my game). I told my gf about this and she said she could never do that as she is too competitive and wants to win every time. So how competitive are you?
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08-03-2011, 11:11 AM
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I'M MORE COMPETITIVE THAN YOU!
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08-03-2011, 11:15 AM
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Want to win everythime
Doesn't mean I am a bad loser or can't handle it - but you play to win the game. I would never have thrown the set and would be very upset if suspected someone threw one while playing me. Even with my kids when playing games, I will never let them win. I will coach and teach, but a win needs to be earned
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#4
08-03-2011, 11:16 AM
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Everybody gets a participation ribbon.
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08-03-2011, 11:17 AM
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My wife is overly competitive in everything. She played tennis all 4 years of HS, and I'm the opposite of someone who is athletic at all...so when I beat her at tennis (which actually happens more than it should), she gets so mad that she wants to destroy the world.
Given that I know this...is it really bad that I want to beat her and get that reaction?  And don't even get me started on video games. She wants to make a cooperative game into a competition all the time, but won't tell me what we're competing on in her head until she "wins." Randomly she'll go "HA! I killed more goombas than you that level!" WTF?
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08-03-2011, 11:24 AM
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