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Originally Posted by HarveyAce
out of curiosity, how does throwing a match in any way help your team, let alone the alliance? all it does is add a losss to your record. and if you are throwing a match, thats not very GP like!
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*NOTE* In no way, shape, or form do I condone throwing matches, nor have we ever done it. This post is written in purely hypothetical terms, so that those who do not understand throwing matches can understand. */NOTE*
Hypothetically, Under certain situations, throwing a match can be advantageous.
Let's say you're shaping up to be the #7 seed, but you have no desire to be the number #7 seed. Lose a match and you drop out of the top 8.
Or, a team is looking at picking you, and you know the pick is almost guaranteed. You sandbag your last few matches of qualifications to appear to be broken, worse than your were before, etc - with the hope that you will be over looked during alliance selections until the team who is "supposed" to pick you, picks you.
You're on an alliance with the current #1, #2, or #3 seed, and a team that is close with you is seeded one behind your partner. By playing at a less than maximum capacity, you lose the match. The partner who is a higher seed will drop in seeding, allowing the team that is close to you to move up.
I'm sure there are other reasons for throwing matches, but those are the most common ones that I've heard of.
Before you think of throwing matches, remember this: If most teams hear that you threw a match to change the seeding, then you'll instantly get black listed on their pick list. I've had teams request that we throw a match, or tell us before hand that they weren't going to play at their full potential, and it's sickening, and I've also had close friends have perfect records ruined by a team that decided they were going to throw a match. It's really not something you want to do, or have your team name associated with.