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

[Paul Copioli]

I find it interesting that refs would knowingly ignore a rule and that it would be mentioned during kickoff this year as a fine example of GP.

Since the allinace of 296, 217, and 522 were the recipients of the GP mentioned in the Kickoff, let me clear up some things immediately.

1. Only 1 time out was called during that time frame (legal then, legal now).

2. We called the time out, not them. They gave us the #25 chain 296 needed since 217 and 522 used #35 chain and had none to give.

3. If they called the timeout for us (because we did not have one), that was legal then and legal now. What is not legal is for them to call one after us to gain an additional 6 minutes. Thet was also not allowed last year. If some regionals allowed it, then your teams got lucky.

4. What they are clarifying this year are two things:
a. No cascading timeouts as it was clearly confusing last year.
b. SInce you now have coupons, it would have been perceived that a team that got knoked out before they used the coupon could give it to another team. The GDC cleared that up so that you only get one per alliance. A team can't give their coupon to another team. An opposing alliance can call their timeout for the other team, but a team sitting on the sideline can't give their coupon to an alliance competing on the field.

This clarification is to make sure only one timeout is alloted per alliance and to make sure only one timeout maximum is used per match.

Here is a link to another post regarding this same topic earlier: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=51111

My post is post #10.