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Why are tied matches in the DE rounds awarded to the higher-seeded team rather than using a tiebreaker game or some other system?

April 26, 2017rounds system TEAM tiebreaker tied

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Why are tied matches in the DE rounds awarded to the higher-seeded team rather than using a tiebreaker game or some other system?

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Teams may not realize they are tied if they miscalculate their point totals, and so won’t know a tiebreaker is necessary. We think we’re unlikely to see any tied matches in any event. Also, this provides an added incentive to do as well as possible during the QR (to get a good seed).