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Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday
Another rule I hate is [T28]
Emphasis mine.
If they want to offer their timeout, why shouldn't they? The greatest display of gracious professionalism in an FRC event was when the first seeded alliance (341 and 365, of course they were awesome) at Philly 2010 donated their timeout to us, because we were the 7th seeded alliance playing against them in the semifinals, and one of our teammates had a broken C-RIO. They didn't want to play an unfair match; we would lose certainly if we didn't have a third robot, and we didn't want to call for a replacement. For whatever reason, the refs allowed them to call it even though the rule was still in effect in 2010. We played, and it was one of my strongest FRC memories. We lost 7-8 due to a penalty of our side panel coming off, but I've been cheering for Miss Daisy and Moe ever since.
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I think the problem with that rule specifically isn't that an alliance can't donate a timeout to their opponent (I think the intent of that rule is so that an alliance in the semis can't give it to their opponent, who already used one timeout, and would use the second one in the finals). IIRC what happened in Philly 2012 was that they called a timeout, and technically didn't give it to you guys (of course I was just a spectator, so I can't speak for myself on that). The problem is that there are no cascading timeouts, meaning that if one alliance is struggling, the opposing alliance can't call a timeout to help them, they'd have to play a match, then call the timeout.