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Competition, game & elimination systems · Specialist

Tie-break

Also called: tiebreaker

ELI5

An additional rule or contest used to resolve an equal result.

Used in conversation

“We need to agree how the tie-break will be handled with the people affected.”

Pitch context

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Sources & evidence · 5

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.