Being killed is part of the game. It happens in many different ways and of many reasons. Sometimes it’s inevitable (e.g. when you make a desperate dash towards the flag in the open, knowing you will be killed, to keep the flag there for another 60 seconds), sometimes it’s bad luck, sometimes it’s being owned by a better player and sometimes it’s just the course of the game.
When you play keep that in account.
No matter how good you are there is always somebody out there who is even better than you. Or your opponents timing is a little better than yours. Defeat by the hand of a better player is nothing to be ashamed of and definitely that player deserves respect for his skill. Childish bitching or making poor excuses only makes you look like a fool. Rather watch and learn, and try to improve yourself. Playing against better players is in most cases the only way to sharpen one’s skill and to become a better player. So take being owned as a lesson and as an example of how to do things better.
Losing by ping difference is a sad thing, but as long as we don’t talk of worldwide broadband and optimized network protocols it is a reality we have to live with.
So the lower pinging player has the advantage. Show the maturity to accept that, even if you don’t like it. If you feel it hurts your ego being defeated by a supposedly weaker player just due to his ping you might be advised to look for servers that give you a better ping. And if - for whatever reason - you have to play with LPB’s you might be advised to try to adept (either by changing your tactics or by assuming roles and positions more forgiving to HPB’s) or just accept what comes with it.
Snipers and HWG’s are part of the game.
And though both are in a better position to kill their opponents - each in its particular way - their kills are not cheap.
This is perhaps the hardest thing to accept for many people, but it’s usually based on a lack of understanding for the roles of those two classes. Both classes are intended to be effective and deadly. The sniper is supposed to serve as first line if defense (due to the unlimited range of the sniper rifle) and his job would be to pick up primarily any heavy offense and additionally to thin out light O where possible. The fact that many snipers fail to assume this role is not to blame on the class, but on the players.
The HWG on the other hand is primarily a supportive class on O or D (though keeping classes like the HWG from going O is exactly one of the reasons the sniper is as strong as he is). He’s supposed to be a deadly obstacle to the enemy O, hard to kill, but also slow to balance his deadliness.
So one could say that both classes are having it easier to kill their opponents than the other classes. Yet both classes can be countered in many ways. If you are going against a HWG as a light or medium class you should better know what you’re doing. If you end up dead it’s not because the HWG would be a cheap class, but because you made an error of judgement, either of the situation or of your own abilities.
The same goes for snipers. If a sniper headshots you while you are standing still in the open you might call it a cheap kill. I would rather call it an incredible stupidity on your part 
. If you play a heavy class passing through the range of fire of snipers better take into account to be picked up. That’s what snipers were created for. The easiness to kill a slow opponent is part of the balance process. Just as the pyro blinds you, or the weak engy is given a strong arsenal of weapons. And one should keep in mind that even a heavy class can evade snipers.
So if you don’t like being killed by HWG’s and snipers you might ask yourself if you have understood the mechanics and rules which make this game work.
You don’t have to like the fact that a sniper can kill you with one (lucky?) shot, but you have to accept this part of the game. I would even go that far to say that this is one important part, which distinguishes TFC from ordinary CTF.
So in the future humble yourself when being killed in the game.
If it happened by a better player rather acknowledge his greater skill and congratulate him. If it happened by other reasons try to react maturely, because bitching and whining will not only fail to help, but also make a fool of you.
But please keep from acting like a child which can’t stand to loose. Unless, of course, you are
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