yes they made up the rule about it
Yes Forfeit is conceding to an automatic loss.
Yes, a major league baseball team has been forced to forfeit a game when it is losing badly. There have also been teams that have been forced to forfeit due to a crowd that was too rowdy.
The Netherlands
Holland were the loosers in the 1974 and 1978 finals.
forfeited
Yes, they can forfeit.
If you don't appear in court, you will forfeit your bail.
In ordinary usuage, "forfeit" means to relinquish your rights, as in: "I choose to forfeit my rights to the property that I own".
You forfeit your right to choose.
"He would have to forfeit his turn to answer the telephone."
Mexico have twice made it to the Quarter-Finals in the FIFA World Cup; 1970 : Losing 4-1 to losing finalists Italy. 1986 : Losing 4-1 on penalties to losing finalists West Germany.
"The man had to forfeit because he knew that there was no way he could win."