Threw
Past tense of 'throwing' a match — losing a game you should have won, especially through bad decisions in the final stretch.
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Past tense of 'throwing' a match — losing a game you should have won, especially through bad decisions in the final stretch. In Twitch chat, 'you threw' is posted when a streamer is comfortably ahead and then snatches defeat from the jaws of victory. Different from being outplayed: throwing implies the loss was self-inflicted.
up 4-0 in best of 7, threw to 4-3 LULW
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- throwing80%
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- peak throwing63%
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