The Year of the Tie

[Nawaid Ladak]

Originally Posted by Alex Dinsmoor

That's the problem that my team has experienced also. Even though we show 8 ties during qualification rounds, we actually have 2 ties under our elimination record that aren't shown.

What's interesting is that TBA shows the MSC finals tie, but not others from various events...

Im guessing because that was a huge event with a large enough audience, the staff at TBA was able to confirm the information given to them by many individuals and edited the information to add that in to their site.

[Basel A]

I agree there are certainly more ties this year, but I think that came along with the "scoring system people can understand." This year, you can usually see the balls individually getting into the goals, whereas last year, it was usually pretty difficult to gauge how many balls were being scored.

Also, as scores go up (as they have been, at least in MI), there must statistically be less ties. That 18-18 tie was quite the exception, though.