Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A tiebreaker, a game or an extension to a game played to resolve a tied score.
Should the score in the tiebreak become tied at 6 points all, play must continue until one player has a two point advantage.1988, Anne Pittman, Tennis, page 100:
2003, Athanasios Papageorgiou, Willy Spitzley, Handbook for Competitive Volleyball, Meyer & Meyer, UK, page 297, If there have not been any major errors in the service reception, then the service reception strategy should not be changed during the tiebreak.
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Simon committed only one unforced error in the 47-minute opening set, which required a tiebreak to settle it.2009 January 23, Bruce Matthews, “Gooch gets a hand”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2009:
As the end of the game, game tiebroke in favor of triad, inexplicably. I thought that two people on different teams(even if nominally aligned), like a Triad and a Judge lost ties against single factions with more members(2 town).2014 February 13, “Judge and Triad Enforcer win tiebreak over two Doctors.”, in Sc2 Mafia: