Pause and surrender are next to each other on the menu. Some people click the menu rather than pressing the hotkeys. If they are in a rush to leave the game they sometimes misclick and hit pause rather than surrender.

Gwavajuice

France1810 Posts

April 07 2015 08:24 GMT

I personnaly use the mouse instead of the hotkey to leave a game (never actually looked what the hotkey is tbh) and once every 100 game I may click on pause instead of leave, but usually click on leave game a split second after....

Teoita

Italy12246 Posts

April 07 2015 08:24 GMT

I thought it was because they missclicked, why bm with a pause when you can just yell at your opponent

ZenithM

France15952 Posts

April 07 2015 08:26 GMT

Yeah, sometimes I pause too, but it's just a misclick.

Aocowns

Norway6070 Posts

April 07 2015 08:28 GMT

think it started because of some bug a while ago?

like if you, as the winner, left the game without unpausing, i think you would get a loss or something

Meavis

Netherlands1300 Posts

April 07 2015 08:36 GMT

#10

quite a while ago, if a game was paused and both players left it would cause the match to show up much later in history, delaying points from the win/loss.
also some people click surrender instead of hitting N after hitting f10, and sometimes missclick pause instead.

DuckloadBlackra

225 Posts

April 07 2015 08:42 GMT

#11

Pause and F10 are right next to each other on the keyboard... I often accidentally hit the pause key when I'm trying to F10+N out

-Switch-

Canada506 Posts

April 07 2015 08:49 GMT

#12

missclick for me

virpi

Germany3598 Posts

April 07 2015 08:52 GMT

#13

On April 07 2015 17:49 -Switch- wrote:
missclick for me

same for me. I have a tendency to be unprecise while I'm raging.

Gullis

Sweden740 Posts

April 07 2015 08:54 GMT

#14

missclick for me too

Jer99

Canada8157 Posts

April 07 2015 09:01 GMT

#15

You guys don't use hotkeys?

Gwavajuice

France1810 Posts

April 07 2015 09:12 GMT

#16

On April 07 2015 18:01 Jer99 wrote:
You guys don't use hotkeys?

I use hotkeys, just not for quitting the game. It's not like I'm gonna get better if I leave games faster

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My routine :

1- sigh
2- say "fuck"
3- type "gg"
4- take a deep breath and click to leave game
5- say "fuck" again

BlueStar

Bulgaria1166 Posts

April 07 2015 09:12 GMT

#17

Previously the pause used to be priority in the UI of SC2 over the victory screen.
It was a glitch/bug/bad feature that was removed afterwards.

Nowadays people tend to pause because of the good ol' BM times or just hitting pause by mistake.

WonnaPlay

Netherlands912 Posts

April 07 2015 09:13 GMT

#18

If people don't use F10, N as hotkeys, then which hotkeys do you guys use?
A?

Pursuit_

United States1330 Posts

April 07 2015 09:16 GMT

#19

Once upon a time if you paused the game before leaving it didn't give your opponent a victory screen. They would have to press f10 then leave the game themselves (it still counted as a win for them). For people who didn't know this, it was very counterintuitive to have to 'leave' a game they had won.

Blizzard fixed this in a patch ages ago. I doubt it's bm at this point, most likely just misclicks.