[EricH]

Originally Posted by xjschwen

I think the first tie breaker should be auto points.


After all this is robotics and there should be more credit for the teams that make things happen in auto.

Fair enough. Matter of fact, Auto is the first rankings tiebreaker (and that ignores fouls) and the third playoffs tiebreaker (the second being Breach and Capture points).

Now, here's the question. What happens if the reason for the tie is that the alliance who scored more in auto was continually fouling their opponents? I don't mean, say, boulder hoarding, but let's go with more pinning/G24-type stuff. Basically, they score more in auto, then play "dirty" (or, more likely, "borderline"). Does your answer change?