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G204      *Letting someone coerce you into 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.

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 ALLIANCE members are participants.

Violation: Verbal warning, plus YELLOW CARD if subsequent violations during the event.

Example 1: A MATCH is being played by Teams A, B, and C. Team D requests Team C ignore the STAGE at the end of the MATCH, resulting in Teams A, B, and C not being able to earn the ENSEMBLE. Team C accepts this request from Team D. Team D’s motivation for this behavior is to prevent Team A from rising in the Tournament rankings negatively affecting Team D’s ranking. Team C 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 A accepts Team D’s request to not participate in the MATCH so that Team D gains ranking position over Teams B and C. Team A 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 G203
G203      *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 G205
G205      *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 G206
G206      *Don't violate rules for RPs. 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 G201
G201      *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.
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