Thank you teams 365 486 and 341

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Vikesrock

While the spirit of the gesture is certainly fantastic, it should be noted that this is actually against the rules.

The cascading timeouts issue is much more cut and dry than the part about offering your timeout to your opponent which can easily be worked around.

The wording of this rule clearly states that the intent is to prevent the excessive lagging behind schedule that is typical of many/most FIRST events ("In the interest of tournament schedule..."). However, thanks to the amazing volunteers at Philly we were running well ahead of schedule each and every day. They even had to interject some song and dance numbers between the quarterfinal matches in order to slow things down! As a result, an extra timeout did not hurt the flow of things at all, and every single person in the building would agree that allowing it to be called was the right call.