Thread: Has FIRST canceled tie breaker matches in eliminations??
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Re: Has FIRST canceled tie breaker matches in eliminations??
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Originally Posted by Leav View Post
Re-reading the manual:




emphasis mine.
How long has this rule been this way?? are the officials simply ignoring it and playing tie breaker matches?


Clarification would be welcome!

-Leav
I think they started this practice in 2012. 2010 was notorious for tied matches in eliminations, sometimes the finals would go up to 5 matches, so they decided to go to a tiebreaker.
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