The Red River Competitions Committee has elected to adopt the USA Rugby updated overtime policy as seen below.
If the score is tied at the end of regulation time of a Red River or National Championship Match, then the tie shall be broken by the following procedures:
- Two five-minute halves of overtime shall be played
- If the score remains tied, then the Teams shall play a five-minute period of overtime with the team scoring first determined as the winner (i.e. sudden death)
- If the score remains tied, then the teams shall compete in kicks at goal
The format:
- Five players who were on the field at the completion of the sudden death period will be nominated to take part in the place-kicking competition
- They have to kick from three areas on the 22m line – directly in front of the posts, on the 15m line to the left of the posts and on the 15m line to the right of the posts
- A player from each team takes it in turns to kick, moving between the different positions, and the winner is the team with the most successful kicks after five attempts
- The order and positions of kickers is as follows:
- Kicker 1 from each team, from position 1
- Kicker 2 from each team, from position 2
- Kicker 3 from each team, from position 3
- Kicker 4 from each team, from position 1
- Kicker 5 from each team, from position 2
- If there are an equal number of successful kicks after five attempts, the competition moves into a sudden death basis until one team has more successful kicks than the other from the same number of attempts
