Time-Outs, Give it or keep it?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Jack Jones

The intent of T-19 was implied by their mention of an alliance completing their repairs. If that was indeed their intent, then perhaps they should have been more explicit, so that we would not even try to wiggle our way around it.

My strategy just took a full time-out to fix.

If they had said straight out, "you can't call a timeout so your opponent can repair their robots", there would be a massive protest. They are trying to stay on schedule, hence the "no cascading timeouts."

Also, if they really wanted to be explicit... I could, if I wanted to, hurt my opponent, even though they called the TO. (I don't want to.) Legally. "Their repairs" only refers to "an alliance", not "the calling alliance". Again, I wouldn't use this.