Sooo haven't played competitive Marvel in 5 years and saw an ad for a local tournament at a bar and got all excited, dusted off the game, and practiced for a week not knowing what to expect. Crowd is mostly people who don't know much about the game aside from 2 other players, so I'm looking forward to facing them (it's clear it's just for funsies event by now). I give the usual "good luck" respect nods at start...instantly in the match his friend begins jeering loudly next to me, trash talking when I get hit or screaming things to mess up my timing when I land a combo. At one point he starts entering my peripheral view and waving/pointing his hand in a way that gets in the view of the right side of the screen. I tell him he needs to chill and watch for his hand entering my view, in which he replies "I aint blockin shit" and proceeds to be an ass. I wound up dropping lethal round 2 and panicking round 3 and wasting X-factor on a block string with all the interference and lost the match. Guy proceeds to shit talk my loss without me even saying a word, meanwhile the guy I played does nothing to stop his friend from start to finish. Thankfully everyone is appalled by this and the guy running the event gets back from the restroom, hears about the situation, and 86's both of them from the bar when he doubles down. It was just a small tournament where wins/loss didn't mean anything, but it sucked to get all hype for nostalgia and have the experience tainted by outside interference.

I also had a similar moment in an early UMvC3 EVO when I was about to knockout KBeast from pools and his support crew right behind my chair began loudly screaming for me to drop a combo, and sure enough I dropped the set winning lethal hyper at the end of a combo and lost (mistimed a lvl 1, got an accidental lvl 3 going the wrong direction, and got full punished). I'm still salty about it to this day. Like I get that it's somewhat part of the experience, but it's different when it's in your immediate proximity versus out in the crowd from afar.

Ever have incidences where 3rd parties are intentionally trying to mess you up? Trash talk, screaming to drop combos, bumping chair/arms, etc...