i strongly, respectfully, disagree with the line 'bat tried to bait him' TW.
i also think i have a right to disagree because you are telling me what i did, which is infact false and only i can 'know' what i did.
if i wanted to bait him, i would have offered my tail, dived away to equalise E states, then attempted a high speed rolling reversal.
my only attempt at anything was to start the fight head to head in the hopes that my enemy would A) not HO or B) miss the ho and lose angles, whith a far greater thought that option A) would be the case.
i never will try to deny that i let myself get shot up, and i never will try to claim that i, or anyone, deserves the right of a cold merge. what i will claim is that in the spirit of fair play i tried to merge cold and head on, and got sucker punched with a cheap shot.
only I, thinking what i thunk as we approached, can believe this, but i swear it to you that i was not in anyway trying to 'bait' or 'trick' the enemy into being killed easily.
what infact appears to be the case from my perspective is the complete opposite. the enemy lulled me into a flase sense of fairplay and a cold merge DA fight that many people will gladly offer in return, and then pulled into me at the last possible second and got a good hit on me.
fair enough, i lost, he won, im the fool.
doesnt mean i don't think it was cheap and representative of the major downfall in MA style gameplay, and very much what i consider a head on merge shot.