Miss
Miss verb - To fail to attend.
Scoring
Scoring noun - Evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score.
Both words in one sentence
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Not Completely Useless: For scoring purposes, grenades in 4 are only mostly useless (instead of completely useless in 3, where they reset the no-miss streak).
Source: Video Game / Time Crisis -
Notable in that scoring that much won't award an extra life immediately, it will instead change the next item spawn into a 1-up, making it entirely possible to miss.
Source: Video Game / Smash TV -
The point of the move is that the referee will halt the match and allow both fencers to reassume their stance if one fencer passes the other without scoring, solving the obvious problem that if you miss you're going to end up in a bad position.
Source: Single-Stroke Battle
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