0 extra play at the end of a game when both teams have the same points, to decide who is the winner
1 an additional competition among competitors who have finished with equal scores
Ideological positions may thus be a sort of 'tie-breaker' for voters.
I concur: waiting time should be a tie-breaker when urgency of medical need and probability of successful treatment are roughly equal.
A top-down, left-to-right order is used as a tie-breaker.
This view comes in a particularly weak version according to which the latter considerations serve only as a tie-breaker.
The second comparison acts only as a tie-breaker, taking effect only when the first comparison fails to separate the distributions under evaluation.
As a tie-breaker, a top-down, left-toright order of selecting maximal eliminators is followed.
How does one determine in a tie-breaker who will get and who will lose the extra seat?
Then, of course, we are back to our old friend, the tie-breaker.