It doesn't look like there's active blue posters in the tournament forum, I thought I'd look for clarification here.

The Tournament rules state:
All Arena Team members must be Eligible Participants and must separately enter in order to participate. Competition in the Tournament shall take place in the Arena Battlegrounds in World of Warcraft, and in accordance with the World of Warcraft Terms of Use and Arena Battleground rules.

And
“Cheating,” as determined in Sponsor’s sole discretion, and specifically including, without limitation, “win-trading,” shall result in disqualification of the Arena Team and all of its Team Members.

The regular arena page doesn't spell out what Cheating and win trading are.

My concern is the teams that are going for the murloc (I'm on one of them). My team has actually played all of our games, but in the course of the games I've seen the following: Some of the teams are entering the arena and are /afk'ing out (not many, thankfully). Some of the teams are going in with no gear on so as to lose as fast as possible.

Does this count as cheating or win trading? Meaning, will the teams doing this be disqualified from the pet and if they are disqualified, will I have to play more games to make up for their disqualified games?

In my experience Blizzard has a top notch investigation team that will fully vet any wrongdoings. If you are in fact innocent then you shouldn't worry about a thing. Blizzard knows who is cheating and who isn't.

Cool, thank you for the response.

Could I trouble you for a followup, since this isn't spelled out in the rules either:
do the naked teams still qualify for the murloc?

there's a lot of folks who paid expecting to get a pet for just entering the arena 200 times

If they don't, there's going to be a lot of angry peeps if they find out later before they can correct it by playing 200 games normally.

Thank you again.

My team is playing (badly) and is currently 43 and 57.

I was just asking more for the pet community in general. If we can get the answer out there, then teams that have already finished their 200 games will know that those 200 won't count and they have plenty of time to re-play, rather than finding out in 4 weeks when the pets are sent and they don't get one.

Even though you didn't have a definite answer, this post did have an effect (at least I think so).
Either the folks that were doing that have completed, or people are actually trying somewhat in the spirit of the game. I've seen far fewer naked teams in my matches, and only a couple of /AFK teams. So

Though it would still be nice to know for sure if the /afk or naked peeps will still get their pets, since they may want/need to replay their games...

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Q u o t e:
Some confirmation on this would be great. Alot of people are inquiring and it is met with nothing. I really don't want to get screwed over because the other team is leaving the arena before the match begins. We paid $25 for this, so a definite answer would be nice.

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You paid $25 to take part in a Tournament.

You need to have 200 wins on an active team.