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Originally Posted by Duke461
First, the favorite matches i remember in my FIRST history was at the 2010 IRI competition. I believe it was the semifinals or so. If my memory serves me correctly, 33 and 1718 (and maybe some other teams) kept hanging at the last second. There were 2 or 3 tie matches and i believe it ended up going to 5 matches (TBA doesn't have results for it). By far the best FIRST experience I've had, and it was because of the ties.
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It was 33, 1718, 70, and 51. We went against 1114 and 2056 - I can't remember who the 3rd and 4th teams were. If I remember correctly, we lost the 1st, tied 16-16 (or something like that) in the 2nd, then won to even it up, then had a 20-20 tie, before losing in the 5th match. Those were very fun matches - too bad we didn't come out on top. We also did that in Atlanta on Newton field in the semis - we advanced in 4 games, the 2 victories were split by 2 ties.
I don't know that I feel strongly on the subject of ties or tie-breakers in the elims. I can see the arguments from both sides. I do understand the desire from the event coordination standpoint of being able to time the length of the finals better...but triple overtime can be a lot of fun too!