I thought ties always went based on opponents matches.. each round for the tournament, add 3 points for opponent with the highest score, 2 points for next highest score, 1 point for opponent with lowest score, go down the list for each round and add up the total, use those points to rank the ties... No?
I guess this thought of mine would only apply to magic higher level tournaments, which iirc is how it's done, although it's been a very long time since I did the judge level stuff....