[Amanda M]

This is what I am getting from this. People who are in favor of this particular tactic (which I am not) are saying that it is a strategy.

This is not true. Strategy and pre-match agrements are two completely different things.

An example : You make an agreement with a team to keep their boxes up, as long as they are going to lost to you, in order to raise your QPs. You get seeded frist without any REAL trouble (unless there's an awesome team that can score high without this using STRATEGY). This is not an example of strategy because it is already pre-ordained. You are simply weasling your way into the top spot

Strategy is created right on the spot. When I was in AZ watching matches (I was scouting) I took notice in the fact that some teams would give other teams boxes for points. They did it the STRATEGIC way, right on the spot WITHOUT any pre-match talks.

One other thing that i would like to comment on.

NOWHERE in the manual does it mention fixing of matches. If the game was created for this purpose, then it would have been in the manual. This was OBVIOUSLY not the intention of FIRST, otherwise, such behavior would have ben addressed sooner.

That's just my bit.

Amanda