I understand and agree with what seems to be the trend in field target (at least here in AZ) to have shoot offs for ties in bigger matches, like Grand Prixs, but for the monthly club matches I've seen the tiebreakers handled numerous ways (NOT shoot offs). I'm curious to see what others think about using those alternative methods to break a tie.
Most commonly I see the longest streak of knocked down targets being used to break ties, but I've also seen first miss used. What is inherently "wrong" or "right" about using longest streak or first miss?
The guys that are pro longest streak claim that the shooter with the longest streak was more consistent but I argue that if they tied they both knocked down and missed the same percentage of the targets.
And for the first miss method it's not fair to the shooter who was shooting a target barely on the edge of legality on their first lane versus the shooter they tied with that had a 1 incher @ 30 yards and a 1.5 incher @ 35 yards on their first lane.
Personally I'd just as soon see a coin toss to break the tie as either of those methods, but I'm curious to see what the rest of the field target shooters think.
Most commonly I see the longest streak of knocked down targets being used to break ties, but I've also seen first miss used. What is inherently "wrong" or "right" about using longest streak or first miss?
The guys that are pro longest streak claim that the shooter with the longest streak was more consistent but I argue that if they tied they both knocked down and missed the same percentage of the targets.
And for the first miss method it's not fair to the shooter who was shooting a target barely on the edge of legality on their first lane versus the shooter they tied with that had a 1 incher @ 30 yards and a 1.5 incher @ 35 yards on their first lane.
Personally I'd just as soon see a coin toss to break the tie as either of those methods, but I'm curious to see what the rest of the field target shooters think.