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How are ties broken in single elimination tournaments?
Posted: 23 November 2020, 06:04
by SudburyGamer
Does anyone know how ties are broken in single elimination tournaments? For a while I thought that the player with higher ELO advanced, but just tied a player with lower LEO and he advanced to the next match.
Re: How are ties broken in single elimination tournaments?
Posted: 23 November 2020, 13:01
by CB Droege
thinking time remaining.
Which, if it's a turn-based tourney, is a bit arbitrary unfortunately.
This is true in all tourneys, btw. If the rules don't specify a tie-breaker, or if the tie-breaker results in still a tie, it's broken with thinking time. Games outside of tourneys are allowed to remain tied.