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Guide 3.7

Break a tie

When the rules cannot separate two entrants, the head judge decides and an Admin records it.

Who can do thisSuper AdminAdminAuditorTabulator

After you compute a round, the placements are on its Round Results tab. Two entrants with the same score are tied. Tallybox first tries the round's tie-break rules in order. Only a tie that these rules cannot settle is flagged, and that is the one a person must decide. Auditors and Tabulators can read the tab; only a Super Admin or an Admin can record the decision.

Spot a tie

  1. Go to Rounds and choose View on the computed round
  2. Choose the Round Results tab
  3. Look at the Is tied columnA green tick means that entrant is still tied. The tied entrants share a rank.
The Round Results tab of the Audition Round. Mark Villanueva is rank 1 with 17.33. Kevin Santos and Leo Bautista are both rank 2 with 16.00, and both have a green tick in the Is tied column. An orange Record tie-break decision button sits above the table.
  1. Round Results tab.
  2. Record tie-break decision: appears only while the round has an unsettled tie.
  3. Is tied: a green tick marks an entrant who is still tied.

Record the head judge's decision

  1. Ask the head judge how the tied entrants rank, best to worst
  2. Choose Record tie-break decision
  3. Pick the Tied rank to resolveEach choice names the entrants tied at that rank.
  4. Pick every entrant tied at that rank in the Order, best to worst
  5. Write the Reason
  6. Choose Confirm
The Record tie-break decision window. A drop-down lists the tied rank to resolve, a second drop-down is for the order from best to worst, and below it is a Reason box. Cancel and Confirm buttons are at the bottom.
  1. Tied rank to resolve: pick which group of tied entrants you are settling.
  2. Order, best to worst: choose every tied entrant, in the order the head judge placed them.
  3. Reason: required.
  4. Confirm: records the decision.
Computing again erases the decision. If you compute the round again, any decision you recorded is replaced and the tie comes back. Record it again afterwards. Compute first, settle ties last, then release.

Ties in an award

An award based on a criterion can tie too. On the contest, open the Awards tab and choose Record tie decision on that award's row. It appears only on criterion awards, and if there is no tie Tallybox tells you so instead of recording anything. See Set up awards.

How scores turn into placements, and why ties happen, is explained in How scoring works.