Or in a card tournament, playing the exact same games of the person on the bubble to benefit your friend one place below?
There are so many grey areas that trying to prove anything conclusively is virtually impossible.
Agreedā¦ but then donāt have a rule that says players must make the best competitive effort on each and every game, because thatās contrary to what you just said.
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That rule needs to change if pinball āmakes itā. If NBC is purchasing the broadcast rights, they want their moneyās worth, and want every game to be played out. This is why you end up with rules like in televised curling that you cannot forfeit until the 8th end even if you want to stop after 4 and save your energy for the next round.
Situations like the badminton trying to lose at the Olympics, or team orders controversies in F1 will be a problem for pinball if it becomes big enough
Thatās a big no no. That would definitely end up with a 'TD folds their arms and nods disagreeablyā ruling.
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Itās really an interpretation issue. If the best competitive effort that Elwin can do is to forfeit Star Trek against Zach in an expo final in order to save some energy and give him the best chance to win the tournament, thatās him giving his best competitive effort on that game.
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āTD folds their arms and nods disagreeablyā really needs to make it in the rules somewhere.
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The unspoken truth is collusion is widespread and goes unenforced (outside of disappointed parent face).
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Iāve seen it enough times that I have had to plan around it in 4-player group match play.
One good thing about the IFPA Champs format is that in head-to-head elimination, thereās no incentive to collude and a very low, but not 0%, chance that it happens ā¦
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One of the biggest reasons we use that format.
Now IFPA Champs group play sessions on the other hand . . . nothing like seeing the scores recorded on a scoresheet not match the scores that are on the machine itself after the round is over 