[Patrick Wang]

Personally,

I think that throwing a match would defeat the purpose of having a competition in the first place. The idea, I think is to do your best, and nothing less. If you think about it from the perspective of the team you are throwing the match to, I would personally think that I had won something that I had not deserved.

Competing, I suppose there is a sense of honor to it. I would not accept nor expect any less of another alliance but their best.

Sure the topic of discussion would be, whether or not it would be within the spirit of FIRST and gracious Professionalism to allow another team to goto nationals, but you also have to consider that maybe another team would want to really compete against a truthful opponent.