Throwing the game.

[defied]

I'm looking at the rules and configuration of this game and am not seeing any reason why a robot on an alliance wouldn't be able to heavily sway the outcome (throw a game) of a round by "accidentally" knocking over stacks made by the other teammates of said alliance.

At the top of page 3:

Points for the Match are awarded based on the state of the scored objects at the end of the Match 
(with the exception of Coopertition Points, which can be earned at any point during the Match). 
Point values are shown in Table 1-2.

1) If the majority of score-able points are only counted at the end of the match and
2) If a robot is low enough in qualifying that they will not be immediately in the playoffs and
3) Knowing the alliances per match (Released in the AM of each day):

A team could effectively "buy in" to the Playoffs by making a deal with a high-scoring team on the other alliance during a match to throw a game reducing the points collected by another high level team that one would consider a threat.

For instance:

Red Alliance:
Teams A, B, C

Blue alliance:
Teams D, E, F

Blue team alliance member D is a shoe-in for Playoffs.

Red team alliance member A will be able to make the playoffs if they score so and so points in this round.

Red Team alliance member B may or may not be close to qualify, but won't make it no matter what the outcome score of this round would be.

One team contacts the other in discussion and reaches an agreement that if they prevent team A from succeeding to reach the required score to get them in to playoffs, Team D would select team B for qualifying.

This would prevent Team A from having the initial pick round, and would hope another qualified team would pick them.

G15 says in violation there will be a firm talking to, and potentially a yellow or red card if it happens again. As this tactic would be most effective towards the last qualifying rounds, it really doesn't matter.

G16 Violation sort of covers this, but 1) It's up to the head referee to determine disabling and 2) the damage would already be underway, so there would be a loss of points.

Effectively, this could be considered an "Accident", which would mean a team could get away with being non-GP without being accused of BEING non-GP.

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