FRC Blogged - Doing the Right Thing

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Racer26

So all this talk of tiebreakers has me thinking:

Suppose for a minute that Central WA was being run under the pre-2011 tiebreaking system of infinite replays until a winner is found.

Based on what I've heard of the incident, it took a few minutes to discover the offending disc, likely enough time to have started the tiebreaker match. What happens then?

My guess is that 2pt disc gets counted in auto of F4, and now you have two matches whose outcomes have been affected by a sloppy count.

Do they still go back and award the red alliance based on their legitimate win of F3?

No. You see, there are a specified number of red discs on the field. When only 5 turn up, none in the robots, there's going to be a hunt for the 6th. When they find it, they try to figure out how it got there. Eventually, the replay is called off due to improper scoring of F3 and the red alliance is crowned the winners.