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Originally Posted by Rob Stehlik
The only negative experience we had was not being allowed to use our time out. When the arms first broke, we raced back to the pits to try and repair them, and asked the officials for a time out. We also repeatedly had our drive team try and submit the coupon. Every time we were told that we couldn't call a time out when the field was in a time out. Which led me to ask what the purpose of a time out was if we weren't allowed to use it. I never got a straight answer.
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Without knowing the particulars of when the match occurred, I can at least explain how the timeouts work in the playoffs. If there is a "field timeout", ie. a forced cool down period in effect due to a back-to-back match situation, it is 6 minutes long (360 seconds on the countdown clock) from the green lights turning on. You have 2 minutes (until 240 showing on the countdown clock) to submit your timeout. At that time the clock will be put back to 360 seconds and continue down. Basically if the field is in a timeout already, you would only gain a maximum of 2 minutes past the field timeout already in progress and only if you submit it at 2 minutes in.