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.

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

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.