I'm curious about how you feel about max's bane. Wasn't your tournament match close as hell? Was he doing something different or did he just play it really well?
If you watched the whole set at UFGT, you would see that the first two matches I won convincingly while the two Max won were very close. The third match I believe I still had clash and 60%+ health so that wasn't that close either. This was also my first time playing him and I wasn't used to things he did that Bio doesn't.
I realized these differences more when I played casuals with him at EVO. Max would use Bane's stomping low attack into the shoulder move on knock down quite often whereas Bio likes to command grab a lot. Me being used to always expecting command grabs kinda fucked me up cause then I'd get opened up a lot by whatever that string is. There were other small differences as well. By the end of the set, I'm not sure what the score was since I wasn't keeping track but I know I had more wins than loses. If I had more matches with Max, I'm almost positive the outcome by the end of the set would be the same as it has been against every other Bane I've faced.