In NH my team was in the finals and actually needed our timeout. Right before the elimination rounds in SoCal the people from FIRST running the event said that if another alliance asked for ous we
COULD let them have it. Of course could ment should. So as soon as they mentioned that i knew some1 was going to ask us. It turned out that 599's alliance asked and against me best interst we gave it to them
. Well they got it to function but not all of it so we still won the match.
If they did fix all of it they would have won because they were this }--{ close to capping their goal. So yes the timeouts are VERY VERY important!