This rule was changed for the start of the 2009 season, making the site for any tiebreaker game to be determined by the winner of the regular season head-to-head record between the teams involved.

As this was the former method of determining if a contestant was eliminated in case of a tie, a new tiebreaker format was developed.

The controversial Purple Rock tiebreaker was used in this season alone, and resulted in the ousting of Paschal English, then with no votes against him.

** In Marquesas, the random rock tiebreaker was used at the final four, which host Jeff Probst later admitted was a mistake.

Seles was behind 2 – 6 in the first set tiebreaker, but then came back to win six points in a row and take the set.

While the Eagles missed the playoffs on a tiebreaker, McMahon was named the NFL Comeback Player of the Year.

In the Mental Agility and Observation rounds, the contestant who answered faster would sometimes be awarded the higher place ; in other cases, a tiebreaker question was used.

It was the first playoff tiebreaker in Major League Baseball history.

The Twins ' 2009 AL Central division tiebreaker with the Detroit Tigers was played on Tuesday, October 6, 2009.

The 1970s and 1980s Card Sharks matches were best two-out-of-three, with the third match being played with three cards per contestant and three high-low questions until 1988, when it was replaced with a tiebreaker round which consisted of a single sudden death question.

If both contestants were tied with one game each, a three-card tiebreaker round was played to determine the winner.

Although the host was based on Jim Perry, the game's logo and gameplay were based on the CBS version of the 1980s Card Sharks series, using the single sudden-death question tiebreaker in the main game and the Joker car game following the Money Cards.

Tiebreaker rounds: If the players had the same score at the end of " regulation ", a tiebreaker was used that reversed the game play.

Later in the 1970s syndicated version and on up to the 2002-04 Osmond version, a best-of-seven tiebreaker was used.

The earlier main game score was erased, and if the first team guessed all seven words within their allotted time, the opposing team had to guess seven words within the time it took the first team to get all seven, which meant tiebreakers almost always took just one round to complete ( if both teams tied with less than 7, or if both teams took the same amount of time to complete, the score was again wiped clean and another tiebreaker was played, though this rarely happened ).

In addition, the 21-21 tiebreaker was the only bonus used during tournament play on the first $ 100, 000 version.

He lost in three sets in the Wimbledon semi-finals to John McEnroe and was defeated in the semi-finals at the US Open by Ivan Lendl, who won their match in a fifth set tiebreaker.

If both contestants were tied at the end of the round, five points were given to each contestant on the 1970s series, and a final tiebreaker tune was played on the 1980s syndicated version.

The match was suspended on Thursday night with González trailing, 6 – 7, 6 – 6, down 2 – 3 in the tiebreaker.

If the contestants had the same score at the end of the game, the scores were reset to 0-0 and the contestants played one tiebreaker question each, again attempting to match all six celebrities.

( Ties are possible for all other places, though they are rare since the sole tiebreaker is the number of chips one has at the start of the hand in which one is eliminated, and hence two people would need to start a hand with exactly the same number of chips and both be eliminated on that same hand in order to tie with each other.

On the baseball field that same month, the Mariners mounted a late-season comeback after being as many as 13 games out of first place and won their first American League West division title after winning a one-game tiebreaker against the California Angels.

He went on to compete in four more rallies and take his second win at WRC's second endurance event, the Rallye Côte d ' Ivoire, where he finished with the same amount of penalty minutes ( 4 hours and 46 minutes ) as his teammate Waldegård but took the win by a tiebreaker.

New England finished with the same record as the New York Jets, but the Jets clinched the AFC East title as a result of the third tiebreaker ( record among common opponents ).

Should these measures fail to resolve the tie, the fourth breaker takes the previous methods and applies them only to away games, the fifth does the same for games played at home, the sixth awards the title to the team with the fewest disciplinary points, and, failing that, the seventh and final tiebreaker is a coin toss.

The challenge came down to a tiebreaker, which Song purposely threw so that Irwin could become the last HOH and be the one to evict Roman and at the same time lose his jury vote.

The tiebreaker was not a playoff in the current postseason sense, but an extension of the regular season – game statistics counted in the season records ( several one-game tiebreakers have been played under the same circumstances ).

** In some International level games, the rule is similar to MLB, but a tiebreaker rule is used when 12 innings has been played: the 13th inning and so on will start in the condition which the first and second base being loaded by the previous two batters.

In the event of a tie ( no one is able to get the correct answer in the given ten minutes ), another tiebreaker is given, generally easier than the previous.

If two teams finish with identical records, the previous year's standings of the two teams is the tiebreaker, with the team having a worse record receiving the higher pick.

The first contestant to score three tunes ( two in the 1970s versions ) won 20 points and a prize ( most often a trip ), and for most of the 1970s and all of the 1980s syndicated series won the game or forced the tiebreaker.

# Some players rank all poker hand with traditional poker rules, except for the full house 2, which is higher than full house Ace, and you must win a hand exactly, not just by a tiebreaker of suit.

If each player wins a set, or both sets end tied, there is a 3-end tiebreaker to determine a winner.

* Bucky Dent ( born 1951 ), New York Yankees player, best known for home run that beat the Boston Red Sox on October 2, 1978, in a one-game tiebreaker to get to the playoffs.

The 2007 Australian Open was the first grand-slam tournament of 2007 to implement Hawk-Eye in challenges to line calls, where each tennis player on Rod Laver Arena was allowed 2 incorrect challenges per set and one additional challenge should a tiebreaker be played.

If the set produced a tiebreaker, each player was given an additional challenge.

" If there is a tie, a numerical tiebreaker question is asked ; the winner is the player who comes closer to the correct answer without going over.

If there is a tie, a numerical tiebreaker question is asked ; the winner is the player who comes closer to the correct answer without going over.

A match consisted of the first player or team to win five games, with a nine point tiebreaker at four all, and no-ad scoring in: women ’ s singles and doubles, men ’ s singles and doubles, and mixed doubles.

In the semifinals, Schiavone defeated World No. 5 Dementieva after Dementieva retired in the second set with a torn calf muscle having lost the first set in a tiebreaker ; the victory made Schiavone the first Italian woman to reach a Grand Slam final, and assured that she would become a top-ten player for the first time following the tournament.

The tiebreaker for choosing the Hart Trophy winner in such a case is number of first-place votes: Theodore, who had 86 first-place votes to Iginla's 82, claimed it.

* 21-21 Tiebreaker: Although 21-21 ties were common by 1984, beginning on January 16 (# 0342 ) of that year, the contestant who broke the 21-21 tie ( i. e. won the tiebreaker ) received a new car, his / hers to keep regardless of who won that day.

The Chiefs finished the 2006 season with a 9 – 7 record, edging out the Denver Broncos ( who lost in OT to the San Francisco 49ers in the final game of the season ) by divisional tiebreaker for second place in the AFC West, and making the playoffs as the 6th seed in the AFC.

Here is an incomplete list of contestants who have " stumped the Schwab ", either by accruing more points than him in the " Schwab Showdown ", by forcing " The Schwab " to strike out, or by beating him in a tiebreaker:

On September 11 at No Surrender, Roode defeated Gunner via submission, moving him up to 52 points, tying the score of Bully Ray, who had defeated Storm earlier in the event, and setting up a tiebreaker match between Roode and Ray.

Branca had pitched and lost Game 1 of the tiebreaker on a Thomson home run ( something Dodgers ' fans were painfully aware of at the time ) and had given up several home runs that year to Thomson, who had hit 31 during the season.

Roberts actually finished tied with 1980 and 1982 Ms. Olympia Rachel McLish, who hadn't competed in the 1983 Olympia, but McLish got second on a tiebreaker.