What we want are games where one player wins rather than ones where the other player loses.

Technically a match can have very high stakes, and be a dead heat, even if every single game ends with a clumsy bug attempt or clearly visible purloin. There have been many close and important matches that were made up of mostly unremarkable games. Performance under pressure is not incidental to SpyParty: it is SpyParty. This is a tense game, and it's not unusual for players to see significant changes in their play from casual sets to competitive ones, so the circumstances matter. Accordingly, no match on this list has a margin of victory above two, and all but one is a draw, went to some kind of overtime, or was won by the narrowest margin possible. It's nearly impossible for either player to play so well and so creatively that their match can appear on this list if it's a blowout, or even a comfortable victory. With that in mind, here are the general criteria I'm using: Restricting this list to competitive matches, apart from being unavoidable, probably makes sense anyway because the stakes of a match is part of its greatness. But we have a robust record of most public competitions: thousands of competitive matches have been logged, parsed, and analyzed, and hundreds have been cast. Right off the bat, we can assume any number of tremendous matches, featuring incredible plays and dramatic turns, have been played privately, which means we'll never know about them. Putting together a list of the greatest SpyParty matches of all time is challenging.

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