Robot Skills and Programming Skills Tie Breakers

[Kaverman]

We are interested in knowing how ties at skills competitions are going to be handled.

If two teams have the same score… will you go on to their second biggest score? What happens if one of them only did 1 run because they reached their cap score while the other team performed several runs? If a team did only 1 run and another team performed 3 runs and all 3 runs tied the 1 run of the other team?

[Karthik]

Ties are handled as specified in the VEX Highrise Game Appendix. I’ve quoted the pertinent section below.

@VEX Highrise Game Appendix

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• For each Robot Skills Match, teams are awarded a score based on the above scoring rules.
• Teams will be ranked based on highest Robot Skills Match scores, with the team with the highest score being declared the Robot Skills Champion.
• In the case where two teams are tied for the highest score, the tie will be broken by looking at the next highest Robot Skills Match score for both teams, and so on, if necessary.
• If the tie still isn’t broken, events may choose to allow teams to have one more deciding match or both teams will be declared the Champion.

Consider the following scenario:

Team A: 432, 432, 288
Team B: 432, 432, 288. 144

These teams are tied on their three highest scores. However Team B has a 4th highest score of 144, while Team A does not have a 4th highest score. As such the advantage would go to Team B,