It was a wild weekend in Kansas City, as the Anderson brothers burnt it down as per usual. However, what stole the headlines (besides the two’s incredible freestyle runs) was that for the first time ever, there was a tie in the scoring for the freestyle win- something that has never happened in the history of JudgesZone.
When it comes to Monster Truck freestyle, ties have not been absent. The most notable example comes from World Finals 5, where for the first and only time ever, not one, not two, but THREE World Champions were crowned with all drivers scoring a 31. Since then, a tie breaker system was implemented at the World Finals, and just 10 years later, to regular events.
Since the implementation of JudgesZone.com, there has only ever been one tie for a competition win- that coming from Oakland 2020. This was during the Skills Challenge, where Coty Saucier and Camden Murphy received the exact same score. Murphy would end up taking the win due him putting up the score first. However since then, this has not occurred since. It is important to mention that in Allentown, Pennsylvania last year in February of 2023, the Saturday afternoon show saw Jon Zimmer JR and Brandan Tulachka tie for the same score in freestyle, however this was not for the freestyle win. The reason this has only occurred so little is down to the core mechanics of the system- all of the fans’ scores are tallied up and averaged out into a single digit score with 3 decimal places- giving thousands if not millions of possibilities for a different score depending on each fans input. There have been times when scores have been close, but never the exact same. This all changed last Saturday night in Kansas City.
During Freestyle, Adam Anderson burnt it down with this incredible move similar to Tyler Menninga’s backflip at the World Finals. He scored a 9.651, a pretty good score and definitely would’ve been the run to win the whole competition. However, Ryan Anderson would soon come out with an arguably even better run that had one of the best saves in recent memory.
Unbelievably, the run scored the exact same- a 9.651. The tiebreaker came down to who had the highest fourth decimal place, which gave favour to Ryan Anderson who ultimately won the whole competition. This was handled differently then in the aforementioned show in Oakland, where in that case, Murphy was the winner due to him posting the score first.
Leave it to the Anderson brothers to make history in scoring whilst doing what they do best- entertaining their loyal and dedicated fanbase!
