Spying Mission and what is a "sucessful bleed"

[the_capuchin]

Hi all

I've got some problems during my first attemp within a tournament here
in Brazil last Sunday. It was a Camarilla pre-con only meeting and I
was about to oust my Malkavian prey with a Nosferatu deck. Had a
Spying Mission on a minion (placed after a sucessful bleed on the last
turn, as it should be) and my prey has got only one pool left. After
tapping the minion and announcing the bleed, my prey played a
Telephatic Counter, so reducing the bleed on two. I was about to burn
the Spying Mission to get +2 bleed and oust him, but he said that
since the initial bleed was for one pool and was countered, it was not
successful, so I couldn't even use the Spying Mission. At the time I
agreed, reading the superior version of the card and noting that the
"next time this vampire sucessfully bleed" clause was there indeed. I
was ousted by two well-placed Conditionings before I had a chance to
play one more turn, and went on. But as I got home with a few friends,
we couldn't agree about what is exactly a "successful bleed". Has
anyone an insight about that case? My bleed was successful because it
wasn't blocked, or it was unsuccessful because it was countered?

[LSJ]

You played correctly. SM is not burned if the bleed is unsuccessful.
A bleed of zero is not successful.

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[the_capuchin]

> You played correctly. SM is not burned if the bleed is unsuccessful.
> A bleed of zero is not successful.

Thanks for the answer and sorry to bother you. I've sent this message
and the chance that there was a previous question (in fact, a lot of
them) about Counter/SpyingMission in thos forum only came to mind
after posting. Next time I promise I'll do a regular search before
posting.