Really bad OTB tournament

This weekend I was playing a 6-round tournament, 2 hours/game. One game on friday night, three on saturday, two on sunday. I'm rated 1999.

R1: Black against a 1795 rated 19-year old, very wild game in the anti-moscow gambit, eventually I was the one who was mated but at least I had fun

R2: White against 1888, I quickly lose track in Albin's counter gambit and get a really really bad position, opponent almost lets me come back into it but I don't calculate well and lose my queen

R3: Black against 1884, I get a horrible position from the opening, play completely without plan, opponent goes for a tactical line that I hadn't even seen and I'm lucky that it only goes to a pawn down endgame that he mishandles, draw.

R4: White against 1861, I finally play well, get a great position against a Stonewall, win a pawn and can start an attack, only to lose my queen to a 1-move pin.

I'm really disappointed now, had great hopes for this tournament (last year I scored 4.0/6 with an 2100+ tpr). I withdrew. I'd only get to play a few more low rated players and I'd feel far too much like I'd have to win those games at all costs.

Although it might look like it from the above, I really don't care all that much about my opponents' ratings (although losing 60 points in 4 games hurts) and not all that much about the results either, but I'm completely disgusted with my play.

Anybody else ever withdrawn from an OTB tournament because they were in horrible form?

first can you post the games

I had one where I went 0-4 (fortunately that was my only 0-fer).

Then there was the time (in the last round going for money) that I played this great piece sac for a couple of pawns to get a raging attack against his king.  Trouble was it lost on the very next move when he pinned my queen to my king...(ouch).

Well, in both gambits it was my opponents who played the gambit. And mostly they were the ones attacking too. But yeah, positional play was completely absent this weekend (except for the last game perhaps, but then, 1-move queen pins...)

My last tournament was a bomb.  First round; black in a KID fianchetto vs. a 1921, won an ugly game in 36 moves; second, white in a Caro-Kann exchange vs. a 1914, sac the exchange on move 15, overlooked two good moves by black, lose in 23; third, pure serendipidy, black in a Veresov vs. an underrated 1878, blunder a pawn early with a worse position, lose in 59; fourth, wanted to withdraw, but another player having a worse tourny than me already left, played without a care against a 1952, got my butt handed to me in 23.  I only stayed in because to withdraw would have created an odd numbered field; I stayed in to keep everybody playing and lost @30 points from my rating.  My result just confirms the old saying: No good deed goes unpunished.

i refuse to drop out.  if i'm not playing well, then i'm not.  there will be other chances.  i had a buddy dip out of one, though. we were in vegas and we took a greyhound bus to the tourney the night (morning) before  we arrived at 5am and thought a cat nap would only hurt us, so we just stayed up. we both played like trash and after the first two games he said screw it and slept lol.  i played on for a horrible performance. i was at my peak rating, too. not so fun losing all those points, but i hate quitting.  grrr... i really hate it lol!

I'd only withdraw from a tournament when I'm seriously ill. The only time I can remember withdrawing was when I fainted in round 2 (I think) of a six round weekend tournament. I guess I had an okay excuse.

No judgement though, everyone should decide for themselves whether to play or not. I would have probably been very eager to win those last games to restore some of my confidence.

Yes -- and knowing myself I would be way too eager, and lose them too. Now I suddenly have a free sunday on which I will do absolutely no chess.

I was indecisive during the games and sometimes when I couldn't figure something out in ten minutes or so just made a move that looked reasonable (but often wasn't). Laziness induced by bad form. That will probaby improve over time, and there's two club nights to go before the first round of the team league...

Withdrawing is like resigning--it's up to the individual.  If you choose to "gut it out" when you're in bad form, by all means do it.  But if you feel that playing would be an exercise in futility, then go ahead and withdraw.  I've withdrawn from two tournaments in my career; the first, due to lack of transportation to the event (I was 2-1 at the time), the second, I was in the 1974 World Open and was 2-4 (and the two "wins" were really losses but my opponents) and I was more interested in running the demonstration boards for GMs Larsen and Browne than I was in playing.  I've been in a few others where I wanted to just quit, but I was determined to get that one win--and sometimes I did.