Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-25493615-20170908144717/@comment-26715110-20170911033740

DesertStorm11 wrote: If you're GA and you purposely let your target die, you are NOT gamethrowing. This is because your target is not on the same side as you.

You are the only person on your own "team", and therefore you're the only person working toward your own goal (of helping your target survive until the end of the game); the only person you'd be throwing the game for is yourself.

But you have to remember: sometimes allowing your target to die could be a legitimate strategy.

If it looks like you will lose as a result of your target making a mistake, or others threaten to kill you because your target is not on their side, you can just let your target die. You will automatically become a Survivor, and you can still win the game as a Survivor and win with and play however you want.

That was a major point of why GA becomes Survivor in the first place, and also a pretty clever and impressive balance to the role in general. If/when the GA's target dies, they still have a chance to win the game. They do not have any vests, allowing any and all killing roles to dispose of a possibly dangerous Survivor that could end up not siding with them in the end. Gamethrowing is doing something intentionally so you/your faction will lose the game, or highly increase the chances of losing.