FRC Blogged - Doing the Right Thing

[dtengineering]

What? Wait a minute? Since when did we start deciding tied elimination matches based on obscure rules, rather than playing a tie breaking match?

Okay... I know the rule must have been changed at some point and I must have missed that in the rules book (and likely a lengthy discussion on CD)... but that is the part of this blog post that really bugs me. Bring back "Finals Match 4"!

Sorry to hear how the rest of it went down, but at least everyone agrees that an alliance won by outscoring the other, even if it took a couple tries to get it right. That's better than deciding such a close final based upon a penalty.

Tie-breakers! Tie-breakers! Settle the match the old fashioned way, where someone actually wins on the field!

Jason