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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.

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.)

The intent of this rule is not to punish teams who are employing alternate strategies,  but rather to ensure that it is clear that throwing MATCHES to negatively affect your own rankings, or to manipulate the rankings of other teams (i.e. throw a MATCH to lower a partner's ranking, and/or increase the ranking of another team not in the MATCH) is incompatible with FIRST values and not a strategy any team should employ.

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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 H105
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.
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.
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.