Brisket always beats ribs when judges want real meat, so stop second-guessing a solid call.

Sort of a trick, but you gotta be careful with the heat part. The lighter works because it breaks up the corrosion between the threads, but if you hit it too long you can melt the dielectric inside the connector and then you're swapping the whole cable anyway. I usually keep a small butane torch in my bag for seized fittings, but 10 seconds is about the max I'd go on anything with plastic in it. Also, a little penetrating oil after it cools down does the same job most of the time, just takes patience.

My buddy Dan did that. Timer ran out, dude quit mid-scenario.