Is it okay to "throw" a match that will be replayed?

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At one of our events, we experienced a series of field faults where a pedestal would never light. I believe the issue was traced to a faulty connector, but during these matches, one team would never be able to start their cycle. When this happened to us for the second time, we decided to just park our robot in the corner and wait for the replay, instead of using up a battery (we only had 1 charged on left), risking potential robot damage, wearing out tread, and revealing our robot strategy. Nobody seemed to mind after the match, and the head referee and the FTA were all nice and pleasant to work with. However, an hour or so later, a person that wasn't wearing a team shirt came up to me, and pretty much called our team a bunch of cheaters for "intentionally throwing a match we knew would be replayed" and yelled at me a bunch.

During our strategy session last night, our team decided that, due to the nature of the game, we should have a strategy for what we know will be a replay, and that we should let our alliance partners know about it. When we go to CMP, our plan is to somewhat redo our shooter by making a new one at the competition. We'll need time in the machine shop to make a few parts and time to make it match the older one, so we don't plan on having the new one ready for the first day of matches. This means we'll be running an badly damaged shooter that only has a few dozen shots left before it breaks completely. If we see that there is an obvious field fault, like a transition to teleop during autonomous mode, our plan is to park our robot in the corner and wait out the match. We understand that we are doing this at our own risk, should the head ref decide that there was no fault. However, we would be willing to bet that if matches with autonomous mode faults are not replayed, the people of Chief Delphi would attack with pitchforks, so we are fairly confident a fault like this will result in a replay.

So what do you guys think? Is this strategy GP?