Bribery, Waging, and Collusion

Penalty: Disqualification

Definitions and Philosophy: Bribery is when a player offers any form of consideration, whether it is a physical or non-physical incentive or reward, to an opponent either in exchange for or the enticement of anything that might change the result of a match apart from the process by which it is normally determined (i.e. modifying the outcome via concession, draw, or another result via bribe).

Wagers are any bets placed on the outcome of a match or tournament result by any player, spectator, or any other tournament attendee. The Wager violation includes all forms of bets including non-monetary bets and does not regard which match is being bet upon.

Both bribery and placing bets/wagers compromise tournament integrity and are not allowed under any circumstances.

Collusion considers whenever players agree upon the result of the match and/or take actions outside of fair tournament play to achieve that result. This can also be known as match fixing or rigging. Collusion can include components of bribing and wagers, as well.

All of the above are not permissible and will be met with a detailed investigation on behalf of tournament and judge staff and, if found in error, players will be disqualified from the tournament.

Examples:

• A player offers another player a portion of a potential prize in exchange for conceding a match.

• A player offers another player a card or other game piece in exchange for conceding a game.

• A player asks their opponent to concede in exchange for a prize split.

• Two spectators bet $10 on the outcome of a match.

• Players A and B in a match agree ahead of time that player A will be given the win for the match without having played a fair match of Grand Archive.