FRC Blogged - Doing the Right Thing

[dtengineering]

Originally Posted by EricH

After the 2010 IRI eliminations, IIRC. ....about the minibots that year, and the coop bridges (and Einstein) the next year, that there was no lengthy CD discussion about the tiebreakers.

Ah... that would explain it, then... 2010 was the last year that I was actively involved on a team, so I haven't been following the tournament rules as closely since then... and there was certainly enough 'new' in 2011 to talk about aside from something so rare as a tied elimination match.

I can't deny the efficiency of settling an elimination series this way, but really... in all the FRC, FTC and VRC events that I've attended that have gone "over time", I don't think the "tie breaker match" has ever been the main cause. No doubt it happened at IRI once, but it seems weird that an anomaly at an off-season event should impact 'real' FRC events.

Anyway, thanks for the update... and I should really be focusing on the GP shown last weekend, as described in the blog post... but I will be cheerfully grumpy for the next while about how "it was better in the old days when we settled ties the honorable way!"

Jason