Westtown MAR District Won on Eliminations Tiebreaker Rules

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by AGPapa

No major sport has tiebreakers to determine the winner of a game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Away_goals_rule

[Lil' Lavery]

Cue debate regarding whether or not soccer counts as a "major sport."

[AGPapa]

In light of recent events, I'd thought I'd give this thread a bump.

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Away_goals_rule

Ah, I forgot about the away rules goals rule! I guess that most of the soccer I watch is the EPL or the World Cup (with some MLS, but they just added the rule recently), so I didn't remember it.

[AWoL]

Originally Posted by AGPapa

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.

Originally Posted by Karibou

Imagine if this happened on Einstein - confetti is flying, teams are celebrating their win, the crowd is going crazy because the alliance they've been cheering for has just won, and someone has to try and calm down the crowd enough to explain the tiebreaker system to a crowd that also contains parents, sponsors, etc who were expecting a clear victory and will largely not understand what's going on. And because of the scale of the event, I think there would be even more "cheap win" reactions expressed. Kind of kills the mood.

Well.

So was it ever actually explained to the audience? I quickly realized that the win was decided on foul points, but I was waiting for an announcement to be made to the audience and I don't remember there ever being one. Then again, the audio was so bad where I was sitting that there easily could have been one without me hearing.

[EricH]

I think there was an explanation, as I recall--but at that point, I'd already figured out what was going on.

As in, I'd seen the tied score on the screen, seen that both alliances had one scale and a Capture, and I'd seen the flag fly for pinning. I knew that if the score held, 330's alliance would win.


It might make more sense if they applied the rule to give one point to whoever had the tiebreaker.