Throwing the game.

[RunawayEngineer]

Originally Posted by ScottOliveira

I would strongly disagree, if anything I would believe sabotage would be far easier this year than previously (not that I advocate that strategy). While points are averaged, it is very easy to knock over a few 3-4 tote + container stacks and take out a hundred points or more (easily potentially dropping their average score by 10% or more if you are looking to effect a dramatic change). And the larger number of discrete ranking levels means it can be easier to knock a (perhaps threatening) team down (possibly out of a captainship) while maintaining your own position.

If you wanted to sabotage an alliance partner without incurring penalties:
Before, you could sit on the field and likely determine a loss for your alliance, strongly affecting the ranking of your partners. If necessary, you had plenty of options to actively sabotage to ensure that your opponent's score is 1 point higher.
This year, you have no choice but to actively sabotage to significantly reduce your alliance's score, which only affects ranking in the case that your alliance partner is being closely followed by the next highest.
There's nothing that makes this year more susceptible to sabotage, only less.

[IronicDeadBird]

Originally Posted by Logan Byers

Sorry Taylor, coaches still should not touch controls.

"G32: During a MATCH, the ROBOT shall be operated solely by the DRIVERS and/or HUMAN PLAYERS of that Team.
VIOLATION: Offending ROBOT will be DISABLED."

Going to have to call it "stoperating" and that differs from "operating"

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Abhishek R

...if my team found out a team was throwing matches, we would 100% blacklist them immediately.

In this particular scenario, whether or not the action was done on purpose is almost irrelevant. A team with a habit of accidentally knocking over stacks isn't going to be highly thought of by other teams' scouts.

[IronicDeadBird]

The drive team I work with is aware of this.
The performance they have at competition is what it is as long as they try.
If they fail in a critical situation as long as they try the hardest I will stand up with them and fight tooth and nail for them. The first person someone needs to get through to criticize there performance when they do their best is me.
Throwing on the other hand, is not trying your best...