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Big Mike,
The dead tie in 1997 was probably one of the most amazing yet most boring matches of FIRST history. The RoboRaiders (team 75 in this age) went up against I believe TJē in the finals. Now that year the idea was to get as many innertubes on the top of the goal as possible (at least that was the best way to score). The RoboRaiders had made a strategy out of going right after the other teams robot and not letting them near the human player throughout the whole playoffs. (The human player in that year was the best way to get 3 tubes if you wanted to get to the top first with a cap). Well, in the finals, both robots decided to do the same thing to each other, basically resulting in a long pushing match on the side of the field between the two teams. In the process, absolutely no tubes were touched on the field, and no tubes were thrown from the human player station. (The first tie breaker was the number of tubes in the human player station). When the two minutes were up, there was nothing moved on the field, no tubes scored, no tubes tossed. FIRST went town the whole list of tiebreakers and found that they tied in each and every category! Because of this, they had to repeat the round...which the RoboRaiders eventually won.
It was interesting to say the least.
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