A sweat check is the moment — usually mid-match — where you pause to assess whether someone is genuinely grinding to win at all costs or just playing casually. It can also be a community audit of a player's profile stats, playtime, and win rate to determine if they deserve the sweater label. 'Running a sweat check on this guy' means you're digging into whether the person's intensity crosses the line from competitive into obsessive. The term is used half-seriously, as though there's an actual checklist involved.
Hold on, let me do a sweat check before we queue — I'm not dying to someone with 3,000 hours if I can help it.
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