Westtown MAR District Won on Eliminations Tiebreaker Rules

[AGPapa]

Originally Posted by Billfred

FIRST emulates the sports model to achieve its goals. You know what the sports model has? Tiebreakers.

(As an event manager, I'm not swayed either. It's a long enough day as it is!)

Sports have tiebreakers to determine seeding (like FRC has tiebreakers for seeding). But those tiebreakers aren't what's being discussed. No major sport has tiebreakers to determine the winner of a game. The closest thing is shootouts in hockey, and they don't have those in the playoffs.

Luckily this tiebreaker only determined 10 ranking points, but I think more people would be upset if it determined the winner of a Regional and who qualifies for Champs.


But again, I don't think any major sport entirely replays a tied game either.