quick question as a newbie

[Alan Anderson]

The rules for awarding Qualifying Points and Ranking Points have evolved over the years. Excerpted from The 2005 Manual, Section 8.3.3:

At the completion of each Qualification Match, each team will receive a win, loss or tie depending on the final score. Each team on the winning Alliance will receive two Qualifying Points. Each team on the losing Alliance will receive zero Qualifying Points. In the event of a tie Match Score, all six teams will receive one Qualifying Point.

All six teams will receive a number of Ranking Points equal to the Match Score of the losing alliance or their alliance score in the case of a tie. A Surrogate team will receive zero qualifying Points and will not receive any Ranking Points.

Subsequent updates to the rules made distinctions between the losing alliance's score before and after penalties.