The Tournament

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

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.

I don't hate that rule, because an alliance may still ask if their opponent would call a timeout. The opponent can call their timeout at any legal time, for whatever reason they desire. Only the offer is prohibited.