Instead of conceding maybe he should have just going through with setup having all of his ships pointed at him. That way we he started Activating he would have just lost all of his ships immediately due to "poor flying." No concession there just a terrible pilot who didn't know up from down.

You can argue against concessions all you like but there is no way to really prevent it. If someone want's to lose it is pretty easy to do. Maybe one just needs to recognize some of these conditions and accept that they are going to be part of a tournament scene especially as things get more serious.

This example is actually worse, forcefully putting your ships off the board on turn 1 is against the rules. I think he was fine as is. Sure it might have ticked a few people off but there can only be one winner and the people he beat just didn't do well enough that set of matches.

Yeah..can you site this?

Even if it is a real rule how are you penalized? Do you double lose?

They take your first born of course.

Instead of conceding maybe he should have just going through with setup having all of his ships pointed at him. That way we he started Activating he would have just lost all of his ships immediately due to "poor flying." No concession there just a terrible pilot who didn't know up from down.

You can argue against concessions all you like but there is no way to really prevent it. If someone want's to lose it is pretty easy to do. Maybe one just needs to recognize some of these conditions and accept that they are going to be part of a tournament scene especially as things get more serious.

This example is actually worse, forcefully putting your ships off the board on turn 1 is against the rules. I think he was fine as is. Sure it might have ticked a few people off but there can only be one winner and the people he beat just didn't do well enough that set of matches.

Yeah..can you site this?

Even if it is a real rule how are you penalized? Do you double lose?

Cited in FFG tournament rules under unsportsmanlike behavior

I have no idea how a TO would handle the situation.

Colusion among players to adjust score is against the rules. And I'd say flying with the intent to loose your ships would be different that dropping from the tournament entirely and giving your opponent a full win.

Cited in FFG tournament rules under unsportsmanlike behavior

I have no idea how a TO would handle the situation.

So you made it up.

And I'd say flying with the intent to loose your ships would be different that dropping from the tournament entirely and giving your opponent a full win.

There is no practical difference between conceding and flying your ships off the table on the first turn. Other than it takes more time, and may be kinda funny.

But a TO can no more prevent someone from doing that then they can stop someone from conceding the match. The issue because when someone is doing it with the intent of padding someone else's score. Since we're now dealing with intent, then it's something only the TO can make a decision about.

As someone who has never played a tournament and genuinely has no idea how these are set up for table top games and such, if he had told the TO before hand, what would have happened? Would the runner up to the top players then be able to move up in ranking? Or would everything stay as it was and it would still have been a win for Player A?