[Abhishek R]

This applied to pretty much any other year as well, but personally, if my team found out a team was throwing matches, we would 100% blacklist them immediately. There are several categories under which it is very difficult to work with a team, and this would definitely make me question how willing I would be to work with them in an eliminations bracket. I would assume this is true for many other teams, considering that throwing matches has a very negative connotation to it.

We've had several opportunities this past season alone where it would possibly have been beneficial for ourselves to lose some matches, but we always, and I repeat, always, try our hardest to win every - single - match; both for our own moral uprightness and for the sake of our alliance partners.

This year is not really any different from other years except maybe 2010. You're making an effort to manipulate the standings in some way other than the intent of the alliance and FIRST in general, and should be treated as such.

*When I say "you," I don't mean the OP, I'm just referring to the hypothetical team in question.