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H105       *Asking other teams to throw a Match – not cool. A team may not encourage an Alliance, of which it is not a member, to play beneath its ability.

NOTE: This rule is not intended to prevent an Alliance from planning and/or executing its own strategy in a specific Match in which all the teams are members of the Alliance.

Violation: Behavior will be discussed with team or individual. Violations of this rule are likely to escalate rapidly to yellow or Red Cards and may lead to dismissal from the event (i.e. the threshold for egregious violations is relatively low.)

Example 1: A Match is being played by Teams A, B, and C, in which Team C is encouraged by Team D to not ENGAGE at the end of the Match, resulting in Teams A, B, and C not earning a Ranking Point. Team D’s motivation for this behavior is to prevent Team A from rising in the Tournament rankings and negatively affecting Team D’s ranking. Team D has violated this rule.

Example 2: A Match is being played by Teams A, B, and C, in which Team A is assigned to participate as a Surrogate. Team D encourages Team A to not participate in the Match so that Team D gains ranking position over Teams B and C. Team D has violated this rule.

FIRST considers the action of a team influencing another team to throw a Match, to deliberately miss Ranking Points, etc. incompatible with FIRST values and not a strategy any team should employ.

Similar Rules

Rule H106
H106       *Letting someone coerce you in to throwing a Match – also not cool. A team, as the result of encouragement by a team not on their Alliance, may not play beneath its ability.
Rule H107
H107       *Throwing your own MATCH is bad. A team may not intentionally lose a MATCH or sacrifice Ranking Points in an effort to lower their own ranking or manipulate the rankings of other teams.
Rule H101
H101       *Be a good person. All teams must be civil toward everyone and respectful of team and event equipment while at a FIRST Robotics Competition event.
Rule H111
H111       Don't violate rules for Ranking Points. A Team or ALLIANCE may not collude with their OPPONENT to each purposefully violate a rule in an attempt to earn each ALLIANCE a Ranking Point.