Post-defeat analysis! I've had many of those discussions. Usually different folks explain their (bad) decision-making process, people try to pinpoint what went wrong, there's a bit of finger-pointing and mea culpa (mea maxima culpa), and others say what are we going to do different next time around. Mood is a big factor; defeat creates that. But defeat implies a good deal, starting with an adversary. On the field, your adversary has volition.
Generally there is a next time, unless it's the end of the tournament (or war). Sometimes though it's hard to say there really was a combat, and defeat becomes amorphous as well. Yoko Ono made an all-white chessboard on which players played until they could no longer tell who had which pieces.
Cheers,
John
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