Same here . I ' ll be closing out my mortgage in a couple of months . With the exception of my dad , who lives 1000 s of miles away , there is nobody IRL who I can be excited with . It ' s frustrating when we ' re expected to celebrate everyone else ' s life milestones , but can ' t celebrate our own the same way . <| sep |> It ' s not about the skill of a player , but more or less a request . I was at an SCG regionals this season . I was at 12 points for the season but not doing well in the event and at a point where I top 64 and get 3 SCG points no cash vs . if I lost I get 1 point and end up at 13 points . The win wouldqualify me for an SCG Invitational for the next year I currently have no invites as I rarely go to these and used my invite in NJ this year already . My opponent comes to the table and comments So we ' re in the testingfun bracket now right ? I explain without asking for anything that if I win Iqualify foranother invitational so the SCG points were my reason to continue to play . Another person commented that we were not in prize contention for cash unless one of us had god tier breakers . I shrugged , my opponent says cool and plays the game out . I lose . I ' m not going to an invitational . Next week was a GP . I was 95 going into round 15 . I scoop to my opponent without anything because I have 0 pro points and only hitting a couple GPs this year with no Pro Tour invite means that the chance of getting 20 points for Silver is unreachable . Could I have won , gotten the point and been the better player ? sure . Could my opponent have asked for the concessionif they needed it ? Sure . I heard people around me discussing suchthings vaguely during this round like Do you need the points ? question . and I Just conceded because Idecided I didn ' t want to play for the point and had no use , whether or not my opponent did . I have also been x 5 at a GP where my opponent needed 1 Pro Point to be the captain of his country ' s WMC team so I scooped because it clearly meant a lot more to him than it ever would mean to dream crush this stranger . No one is obligated to concede , but if there ' s no benefit to you to win the match and you feel you don ' t need the result for your own goals , it can be a good karma move to just give your opponent the win and move on with your own life , especially in situations where nontangible benefits have different definitions foreach player in the room .