Hastings Boys' have a rest this weekend before taking on the second-placed team from Wellington in the Hurricanes region qualifiers on August 26 for the national top-four competition.
Hawke's Bay Today reader David Brock, of Napier, had enjoyed watching the game but questioned the criteria surrounding the awarding of the crown to Hamilton Boys' High.
"But who were the rocket scientists who came up with this method of declaring Hamilton BHS the Super 8 Rugby winners?" asked Brock, after Hastings BHS won the round-robin stage with 34 points over Hamilton's 31 and the previous Saturday had defeated Hamilton away in the final round-robin match to post "a vastly superior points deferential".
"There was no provision for extra time. I imagine this may have been because of the fact that it was being televised live and scheduling was the king," he wrote.
He asked the administrator who came up with this scenario to explain the tie-breaking significance of scoring the first try.
Brock had suggested extra time as an option and, failing that, falling back to what transpired in the round-robin stage to declare winners.
