Final Positions?

Boat A on countback.

In case of a tie, split them on the discard scores.  If there is still a tie after that then generally its a tie, although I have known this (rare) situation to be solved on the toss of a coin!

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Unless your SIs say something different Boat B is correct. Read Appendix A. At the moment discards aren't taken into account at all.

A8 SERIES TIES A8.1 If there is a series score tie between two or more boats, each boat’s race scores shall be listed in order of best to worst, and at the first point(s) where there is a difference the tie shall be broken in favour of the boat(s) with the best score(s). No excluded scores shall be used. A8.2 If a tie remains between two or more boats, they shall be ranked in order of their scores in the last race. Any remaining ties shall be broken by using the tied boats’ scores in the next-to-last race and so on until all ties are broken. These scores shall be used even if some of them are excluded scores..

Mark & Jim. Thankyou. That clarifies the situation even though its not the result I want to hear. I was boat A. Things got a little heated between boat B and the OOD yesterday so I said I would look into it and abide by the current rules. To be honest I was chuffed to be in the running at all.

Originally posted by rogerd That clarifies the situation even though its not the result I want to hear. I was boat A.

It changes regularly. In 2004 boat A would have won. The tie break rules change fairly regularly as ISAF juggle them when people come up with clever ways of exploiting the rules with what's seen as undesirable results. Should you have a few hours with nothing better to do you *could* go back through ISAF meeting minutes and find the logic.

Its a useful lesson - no RC should act without double checking the rule book because it might have changed since last time they read it.

Funnily enough it came up in a Open at my club this weekend too, 1,2,3,1 beat 2,1,1,2. What made it particularly ironic was that 2,1,1,2 was the guy who wrote the SIs that said standard appendix A and thus cost him the 1st place.

Edited by JimC