05-04-2016, 11:10
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AKA: Pinecone
 FRC #0228 (GUS Robotics); FRC #2170 (Titanium Tomahawks) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 7,629
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Re: Westtown MAR District Won on Eliminations Tiebreaker Rules
Eliminations tiebreakers are the result of an overreaction to a problem unique to the 2010 FRC game. In that year, scores were very low (one point per ball, 2 points per hang) so ties were very easy to accomplish. Many events had 4 or 5 match rounds waiting for ties to resolve one way or another.
Despite this being pretty much a non issue in literally every other FRC game there has ever been, FRC's GDC has written in tiebreaker rules into the manual ever since to avoid a situation that happens only a handful of times per year. Personally I think this is among the most ridiculous rules in the manual, and that tiebreakers are poorly explained when they do happen. Not the fault of the volunteers - the scoring screen just makes this super ambiguous.
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