[Leeebowitz]

I have to agree with Chris is me here. I'm not a big fan of tie-breakers.

My team, as is the case with many other teams and especially rookie teams, does not have a kicker or a hanger. Forcing a single robot to take a ball from the midfield into the goal when it struggles to even pull itself over the bump is just cruel. Although this may not end up being the scenario of the tie-breaker, I think that telling a push-bot team that they have one shot on goal will not be easy to enforce unless you come up with a new meaning for the word "shot."

Also, imagine a tie scenario where neither alliance scores during the entire match. Needless to say, it's going to take a while for the teams to score a point if they couldn't within the original 2:15 time limit. Not only would that throw off the match schedule, it would also frustrate all six teams on the field to no end.

I hate to be a naysayer, though. If someone comes up with a plausible way to break a tie fairly without favoring any robot which wouldn't already be favored by the current rule system, I would be all for it and would be excited to see it implemented at the offseason events. Looking back at some of the ideas in this thread, Craig's idea of one ball in the middle could potentially work, although it does make some hanger-bots worthless.