Why do losing streaks happen?

[The Arena Master]

I don't get it, one minute I'm at the top of my game, and all the sudden right now I'm losin' every game, I went down like 2000 points, not that points matter, but I'm really frustrated. Can anyone explain why all the sudden I can't win?

 

[Virtual]

This happens to me too. :/

 

[MaxStormz]

Pretty sure it happens to everyone. Maybe a few players double team you for a few games and you start feeling like you suck and such. Then when you win multiple times you feel pro and like you can win even more.

 

[Beardy]

You might have lost a game you think you should have won. Therefore you're stuck dwelling on the past. You can't win because you're too worried you'll mess up again. I'm pretty sure that's what happens to me.

 

[Zeno]

Losing streaks suck, but they happen to everyone. Just take a break, listen to music, and come back to it later and you'll have a clean slate to work on.

 

[MJM239]

I think it has something to do with momentum. You win a game, you get pumped up for your next game, you win again.

But when you finally lose, the momentum streak ends, you get sad, you go on a losing streak before the cycle repeats.

 

[The Arena Master]

I was finally about to win a game

then the server crashed

 

[OrangeTrees]

Yeah man, it sucks. It's got to have something to do with mental state really, like you start trying really hard to win a game so you do things you wouldn't normally do, for example going into a fight you shouldn't have.

 

[RC_4777]

I don't know, but I'm a HUGE. On/off PvPer. Half the time I suck and half the time I destroy.

 

[TheInforcerHD]

The only solution I have found to get out of these losing streaks is to take a break from playing all together as there is a point when I'm on a bad losing streak that I tend to just to play to win while I do better when I play for fun. Try to do something else then when you feel eager/ready to play, go for it. Before my camping trip, I was on a pretty bad losing streak that lasted for 3 days, but when I came back from camp I seemed to do very well

 

[Hawk62]

I don't have losing streaks, I have streaks where I fight teams of three or more 5 or more games in a row and that's why I lose :/ Also I'm not as good at pvp as I use to be

 

[SixZoSeven]

I feel like I have to deal with things I should not have to.
For example, I have been killed by three hackers today but only managed to catch one of them because the other two died shortly after killing me.
Another reason why I lose games is the fact that I usually have a trail of people chasing me from corn, especially if they have weapons. I don't know if they want to kill me for my points or if they want to do it just because I am a mod.
I also have been having problems with my computer. It always crashes if I play Minecraft for too long. This has caused me to lose about 10 games the past week.
G33ke is a good friend of mine and I enjoy playing games with him. The only problem is, I lag a LOT on the US servers for some reason. I am seriously considering getting professional help with this. I get TERRIBLE lag on the US servers. And, knowing G33ke, he usually does not like to play on the CA servers with me so I am forced to play laggy games with him.

I could go on and on about the problems I am having.


Some of you might argue that these are things everyone has to deal with. The problem is, these things happen nearly EVERY game!

Moving on to less of my problems and more general stuff, I am starting to study the skill of players during certain times of day during certain days of the week. Although I am not ready to make a full report, I can safely say the playing from 12:00 P.M. to about midnight is the worst time to play if you want to win. But, I prefer to play these times because I like fighting other people who actually are fairly competent at the game. (Problem is, CA hardly has any "good people". This is another reason why I want to play on US)

The more and more you lose, you will build up more and more hopelessness and anger. If possible, try to change your current mentality to something a bit more sane by doing something you enjoy that wont take up to much time.


MCSG is a game of both skill and chance. I feel that there are times where no matter how skilled you are, you simply can not win. With the contents of chests being random, what people will do, how much lag is currently happening, there are just way too many variables to consistently account for. I feel that blaming yourself is not the answer. Just blame chance/luck (I prefer to use chance as I do not believe 'luck exists')