In 2HG, a match continues until one team has won a game. In case of a game ending in a draw, if there's still time left for the match, you start playing another game. If time is up, and no team won a game yet, the match is a draw.
From the MTR:
Two-Headed Giant matches consist of one game. All players from the two teams play in the same game.
Drawn games (games without a winner) do not count toward the one game. As long as match time allows, the match continues until a team has won a game.
2HG is a single round match, if it's a draw and there is still time you need to start another game. If time has already called then it's a draw period (and remember that 2HG is 3 turns after time instead of 5 of 1v1 games)
In the case it's a single-elimination round with time limit (in other words, a game that cannot end in a draw), if the time is over and no team won the team with the highest life total win the game. If they are tied the moment a team have less life than another that team loses the game.
if you run out of time/turns the game ends in a draw. if there is still time left in the round and you have not played your 3 games play on.
If there is time you always play another game, no matter how much games you have already played. In a 1v1 match if the third game (it's 1-1) ends in a draw you play another game until a player have 2 wins or the time is over.
I somehow find it tragic when an attacking Traveling Philosopher gets blocked by another Traveling Philosopher, which normally results in two dead philosophers. Shouldn't they just sit aside and start discussing?
"This is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I'm quite dizzy with anticipation . . . Or is it the wind? There really is a lot of that now, isn't there? And wow! Hey! What's this thing suddenly coming toward me very fast? Very, very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide-sounding name like . . . ow . . . ound . . . round . . . ground! That's it! That's a good name- ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me? Hello Ground!"
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the Sprouting Phytohydra as it fell was Oh no, not again.
The Comprehensive Rules explain how the game is played in any environment. The Magic Tournament Rules explain the handling of a tournament setting. So if you have a question about tournament stuff, you'll find the answer in the MTR not the CR.
From the MTR:
Former Rules Advisor
"Everything's better with pirates." - Lodge
(The Gamers: Dorkness Rising)
"Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
(Girl Genius - Fairy Tale Theater Break - Cinderella, end of volume 8)
2HG is a single round match, if it's a draw and there is still time you need to start another game. If time has already called then it's a draw period (and remember that 2HG is 3 turns after time instead of 5 of 1v1 games)
In the case it's a single-elimination round with time limit (in other words, a game that cannot end in a draw), if the time is over and no team won the team with the highest life total win the game. If they are tied the moment a team have less life than another that team loses the game.
If there is time you always play another game, no matter how much games you have already played. In a 1v1 match if the third game (it's 1-1) ends in a draw you play another game until a player have 2 wins or the time is over.
Former Rules Advisor
"Everything's better with pirates." - Lodge
(The Gamers: Dorkness Rising)
"Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
(Girl Genius - Fairy Tale Theater Break - Cinderella, end of volume 8)