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Originally Posted by Billfred
FIRST emulates the sports model to achieve its goals. You know what the sports model has? Tiebreakers.
(As an event manager, I'm not swayed either. It's a long enough day as it is!) |
Sports have tiebreakers to determine seeding (like FRC has tiebreakers for seeding). But those tiebreakers aren't what's being discussed. No major sport has tiebreakers to determine the winner of a game. The closest thing is shootouts in hockey, and they don't have those in the playoffs.
Luckily this tiebreaker only determined 10 ranking points, but I think more people would be upset if it determined the winner of a Regional and who qualifies for Champs.
But again, I don't think any major sport entirely replays a tied game either.