['I recently was in a Arcade game tournament.', 'ooh cool! Did you win?', 'After a hard fought battle I came in second place. But it was to one of the number 1 people in the region.']
You did good! There is always a luck factor involved.
I had been training for a tourniment for months, and I had never been so sure of myself. I played amazing and in a hard fought battle I came in second.