Prompt 2:

I would say that being up a goal in an important game is the most tense. When you're tied anything can happen, and when you're down things are already bad. But when you're up, you have everything to lose. The sim could decide to hang four goals on you in the next minute if it really wants to, and when you can't make changes in the middle of a game, the result is totally out of your hands so you feel powerless. Whatever happens is happening TO you. Easily the most tense I've ever felt was watching the clock tick down in Game 6 of the S53 SMJHL final when the Falcons had a one goal lead for a large chunk of the game. I think the winning goal put us ahead in the middle of the 2nd, so it was a long, long time of clock watching and hoping nothing bad was about to happen. But the moment that buzzer hit was worth it.