Ties in a tournament

[Fuhrcia]

Hi all, I wanted to explain something that happened to me in a tournament yesterday. Maybe i'm in the wrong but it seems a tricky situation that i find a bit unfair.

The problem is that a player and me tied, but the other one won because they solved it faster. That is completely ok of course, the issue is I played my turn as soon as the game started, i tried my verifiers and then wanted to try a solution. I could not put my solution until the other player completed their turn so i waited. The other player took a little bit longer so i went to sleep and in that time the other player did the same i did and was able to try their code as I already was in that step of the game. I took more time than them to put my solution because i was sleeping so it seems i took longer to finish the game but i didn't. I got to the solution step much much sooner.

I dont know if there is a way to try to solve this kind of issue.

[poptasticboy]

I'd been wondering how ties in a knock-out tournament would be handled, as I'm currently in one and it seems likely there will be ties in the later stages.

This does not seem like a good resolution. I'll have to be careful to avoid tournaments of this with a knock-out component in future.

[BoDo_]

I read somewhere else that the tie-breaker in elimination-tournaments on BGA is just random. And so far I couldn't see any pattern either, so it seems you just have to get lucky if you tie.

From what I've seen so far in Touring Machine tournaments, the first couple of places usually just come down to who gets lucky with the random tie-breaker. Not that great, but I also don't really see a better solution.

[Fuhrcia]

Oh! I had no idea about that. I though it was a matter of time. Thanks for the clarification

[The Jester]

I was wondering about this and I can confirm that it is not time related but random.