A Teammate Throwing the Match
Someone on your team decided to lose on purpose. Having a teammate throw is a gaming fail where the aura damage is moral as much as mechanical. Five thousand five hundred points lost because you played well, the enemy played well, and the outcome was decided by one person on your team who decided the match was not worth trying, which is a betrayal that the scoreboard cannot capture. The aura loss is in the helplessness. You cannot make someone try. You can mute, you can report, you can carry, but you cannot insert effort into a teammate who has checked out, and the match will end with the loss on your record regardless. The deeper fail signal is that you queued solo into a team game, which is a risk that pays when teammates cooperate and costs when they do not. The recovery is to find a stack, because stacks filter out the throwers, and stacks are where gaming aura is actually built, because the trustworthy teammates are the ones who do not… A Teammate Throwing the Match is a gaming event in the major tier, worth -5,500 aura points. Compare it with Deleting a Thirst Trap Due to Low Likes and Hitting a Home Run in a Real Game, or browse the full aura events index to see where it ranks.