Throwing matches...

CimBomBom takes three firebombs right in the center... right at the very beginning of the match. Two guildmates on other side, including one named CimBomBom.... using firebombs... suspicious much?

https://replay.battlebay.net/XYCNWQPG#XTSVNRFP

 

I'm not buying it. I actively manage my own infamy and I've thrown matches before I found much better ways to do it. I have some fair idea of the dynamics involved. Throwing a match is hard because you're just one boat on a 5 boat team. What's really easy is dying. You don't need to setup a coordinated match to do that. I also thought about farming firebomb quest points but that also didn't make much sense for a lot of reasons. Honestly, my vote after looking at the video is the guy was just playing really poorly. Maybe he's a bad player? Maybe the cat jumped on his lap just as the match started? Maybe one too many beers (happens to me LOL). But honestly it just looked like bad play to me. I agree the whole guild thing is potentially suspicious but if it was some sort of scheme I don't know what or why. People willing to go to those lengths to game the system generally give it careful thought and I couldn't make rhyme or reason of this.

 

It happened again in a second game later. He typically doesn’t play fixer, he’s a shooter... but he is trying to heal himself so he can take more fire damage. He clearly was throwing the match.

You’ll also notice, he wasn’t healing much of anyone. I don’t think it was poor play. Trust me, I have my fair share of games where I do poorly. And I’m not one to call people out for cheating, but it was blatantly obvious.

 

OK, here's my reasoning. As a way to throw the match there are so, SO many better ways to do that - particularly on a fixer. In terms of ways to die, you don't need collaborator to do that. In terms of ways to farm burn points, where was the duct tape and why didn't he flee after the first salvo to let it all burn and heal up before "finding" his guild mate again for another round? None of it looked very well done from a "gaming the system" standpoint.

In my experience, the people willing to set up elaborate schemes involving multiple people generally think things through pretty carefully and I'm just not seeing it here. I could be wrong of course. But it doesn't make much sense.