Question About World Skills Standings Tiebreakers

[JoshRak_90819A]

Hi, I had a quick question about the tiebreakers being used in the world skills rankings. I know that if teams have the same scores the tiebreaker that is supposed to be used is the combined stop time, but I can’t see if this is being recorded on RobotEvents. Does anyone know if the stop times are being recorded and just not visible in the rankings, or are teams being ordered in some other way? Thanks!

[holbrook]

@JoshRak_90819A

I know that if teams have the same scores the tiebreaker that is supposed to be used is the combined stop time,

That’s actually not quite true, combined stop time is actually the third-level tiebreaker:

@VRC Change Up Game Manual Appendix B

Teams will be ranked Globally based on their Robot Skills scores from Tournaments and Leagues that upload results to robotevents.com according to the following tiebreakers.

1. Highest Robot Skills score (combined Programming Skills Match and Driving Skills Match Score
   from a single event).
2. Highest Programming Skills Match score (from any event).
3. Highest sum of Skills Stop Times from the Robot Skills Matches used for point 1.
4. Highest Skills Stop Time from the Programming Skills Match used for point 2.
5. Highest Driving Skills Match score (from any event).
6. Highest Skills Stop Time from the Driving Skills Match score used for point 5.
7. Earliest posting of the Highest Programming Skills Match score.

• • a. The first Team to post a score ranks ahead of other Teams that post the same score at a later
    time, all else being equal.

8. Earliest posting of the Highest Driving Skills Match score.

• • a. The first Team to post a score ranks ahead of other Teams that post the same score at a later
    time, all else being equal.

But to answer your question, the text I quoted above defines how global skills rankings are sorted, so the stop time is used when needed. Would be cool to see them in the rankings though.

[JoshRak_90819A]

Sorry, should have clarified I was referring to when items 1 and 2 were both not applicable, like in the case of multiple teams having maxed-out scores.