[jijiglobe]

Our team has "thrown" multiple matches and it is something we talk to all of our alliance partners about before every match. Our team calls it "blowing" a match. The basic idea is if you are really far behind or ahead of the other alliance and the outcome of the match is already determined, you stop playing to score the most points. The tie breaker in rankings is assist points so we try our best to score as many assist points as possible by not trussing or high goal scoring. It has made the difference between whether or not we were alliance captain(qualifying by a mere 10 assist points). We talk it over with every alliance we work with in qualifications and invariably have gotten agreement with the strategy. Not 100% relevant but I thought I would mention as it pertains to "throwing" matches, particularly the losing ones.