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Re: Elimination Match Tie-Breaker

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Originally Posted by lemiant View Post
This is not a valid argument. We knew from the very beginning that this was how it would be judges so when you built your robot, you should have put a tiny bit of extra weight towards the tie-breaker categories. It's no different than someone's judgement about how many points to award for a balance.
That's not the point I'm referring to.

I'm aware of what the rules say and I'm just speaking my opinion on the spirit of competition in general. I'm not a part of a team and the team I have previously been affiliated with has not been negatively affected by this system. I'm speaking from a spectator's standpoint. If the scores are the same the two alliances have demonstrated in some way that they are equal in skill for that round.

I'm not sure if it's the point of this thread or not, but in a lot of sports there is overtime, while in robotics there is not. The system adding a single point to the scores of an apparently random alliance (to a spectator) isn't spectator-friendly.
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