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I had this happen to me a long long long time ago back during dragonspyre i think and i lost like 30 some points i was a little peeved myself. But iits like what are you supposed to do i think there are always going to be a rare occurence or something, Personally i dont now what triggers it i think its if there is a lag spike the minute you accept, but you see it all the time when its like 2v2,3v3,4v4 and then a player will be missing and they will port and the match will start and they will be just flying around. So in your case it most likely happened and because it 1v1 it must have counted it as a forfeit.

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At one time there was no initial wait time clock and matches began without someone at the table quite frequently. They either had a poor connection or a slow computer. I had a slower computer at the time and quite often could not get off an initial play before turn two began, but at least I was fast enough to at least get into the game. There were a few times however when I arrived too late and could not get in though it still counted as a win/loss for me depending upon how my side did. I suggested they put an initial clock timer at the start of matches giving those with slower computers the chance to get in and to play that would hopefully keep a team from being short playered and allow everyone regardless of connection and computer speeds to hopefully be able to play PvP as those with slower computers than what I had couldn't make it into a single match. It took Wizard101 very little time to impliment my suggestion. I don't think what you are complaining about is a glitch or the fault of Wizard101 programming but rather a momentary problem with you were experiencing connection, so I don't know what they could do to fix that.