CBQ
is One Chatty Farker
- Joined
- Jan 11, 2009
- Location
- Cumberland, RI
Last weekend in Laughlin Little Pig Town, Quau, and ZBQ tied for 1st in brisket with a "perfect perfect" score. (Even the dropped scores were perfect.)
The organizer (Ron Cates, Smoke on the Water) called all the teams to the stage and gave us the option of getting payouts in the order the computer ranked us, or spitting the payout for the first free places evenly. We opted for the latter - with payouts being 2000, 1500, and 700 giving everyone 1400 seemed to be the better option.
After we made the decision we were shown the KCBScore rankings, and 1st to 3rd were in alphabetical order. The reps told us that the computer didn't know what to do with a perfect perfect tie and defaulted to alphabetical. That's not a good thing when your team is named "ZBQ." I was surprised to hear that as I thought the tie breaker used a coin flip when the scores were dead even.
Does anyone know? Is a coin flip used and it's just a coincidence that the team ranking was alphabetical? Or were the reps right that the computer defaulted to alphabetical?
The organizer (Ron Cates, Smoke on the Water) called all the teams to the stage and gave us the option of getting payouts in the order the computer ranked us, or spitting the payout for the first free places evenly. We opted for the latter - with payouts being 2000, 1500, and 700 giving everyone 1400 seemed to be the better option.
After we made the decision we were shown the KCBScore rankings, and 1st to 3rd were in alphabetical order. The reps told us that the computer didn't know what to do with a perfect perfect tie and defaulted to alphabetical. That's not a good thing when your team is named "ZBQ." I was surprised to hear that as I thought the tie breaker used a coin flip when the scores were dead even.
Does anyone know? Is a coin flip used and it's just a coincidence that the team ranking was alphabetical? Or were the reps right that the computer defaulted to alphabetical?