Elimination Time-Outs: or Gracious Professionalism vs. The Schedule

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Ricksta121

The rule states there are NO CASCADING TIME OUTS (PERIOD). Meaning even if you need it, too bad.

Originally Posted by Billfred

The way I understand "cascading time-outs", it's that they can't finish a time-out and then have us immediately call one of our own; a match would have to be played. Is this remotely correct?

That's the way I read it. They don't want 12 minutes down-time.

Now if you play a match and the part that your opponent desperately fixed in the previous 6 minutes still isn't performing well, then you use your time out to "fix" something on your robot. Maybe you have to suddenly "discover" a problem that needs fixing.

Is it going around the letter of the rule? Yes. But what is more gracious?

Everyone should comment in the summer wrap-up meetings that we should be allowed to help out our opponents. They can keep the cascading ban, but why oh why would we want to see the last match on Einstein as a 2.5 vs 3?