Quote Originally Posted by 'Codam',index.php?page=Thread&postID=76825#post768 25
Of course it seems like a completely different scenario, as noone else is being adversely affected by it. My concern was more that blizzard would see this as "not in the spirit of..." blah blah blah
I HAVE actually seen a thread about this in the customer service forums. I believe it [s]was answered by Belfaire and [/s]was about purposely losing arena.

The response from the blue was that it is OK to lose in arenas -- I mean, honestly... You're allowed to suck.
What you aren't allowed to do is lose against the SAME TEAMS over and over again. They specifically mentioned losing against friends/guildmates in a way that could be considered win trading. If you lose consistently that's fine -- but you shouldn't lose only to the same team.

Any attempt to "fix" the queues or to specifically lose in order to give another team a marked advantage is considered win trading. Losing all games or just sucking at PvP in general is OK. It's your PvP strategy, you just can't make a marked effort to specifically lose to a certain team(s) in order to boost that other team's arena ratings. If you want to not TRY to win games just so you can put your 10 games in without having to expend much time/effort, that's your decision to make. It may not be morally tasteful to some, but it does not break the rules. (Edit: HOWEVER, it is NOT okay to refuse to PARTICIPATE in your losses -- see my GM posts linked in the next post)


I'll try to dig up the actual blue post on the subject but no promises. It happened shortly after the win trader bans and the botter bans.