The qualification threshold for Excellence includes, "At the conclusion of the Autonomous Coding Challenge matches, be ranked in the top 30% of teams."
Suppose an event with 20 MS teams has the following scores in Autonomous:
- Team A: 40
- Team B: 20
- Team C: 20
- Team D: 20
- Team E: 18
- Team F: 18
- Team G: 18
- Team H: 12
Top 30% means 20 * 0.3 = Top 6 teams. Teams B, C and D are tied and ranked <6 so they're clearly qualified for Autonomous. But since the cutoff is 6, that "straddles" teams E, F and G, which are tied with 18 points. Which team "wins"? Or do they all qualify equally? Or is there a tie-breaker?
I couldn't find how exactly ties are handled when it comes to ranking of Autonomous Coding Challenge, Teamwork, or Robot Skills, for purposes of Excellence Top 30%.
I'd personally be an advocate of having Teams E, F and G qualify equally for Autonomous Top 30% at the event, even though the # of teams would exceed 6 (in this case). It makes the candidate pool a bit broader and eliminates messy tiebreaking rules.
I know of the existence of rule RSC2 (https://www.vexrobotics.com/full-volume-manual#RSC2) from the manual. Are those the tiebreaker rules used for determining Top 30% for all three qualification types? If so, then to determine actual ranking for my example scores above, we'd potentially need to know the 2nd highest autonomous score for teams E, F and G (RSC2.3), and even potentially skills start/stop times? While EPs can look to the TM reports, it can be challenging (impossible?) for teams and mentors to independently confirm how tiebreaking happened, no?
Thank you!