losjackal
Technical Administrator
This advice was just posted on another Web site:
The Rules document does give this direction for a judge to use to determine a winner for an unresolved match: "If one player was late to the match or was away from the match without a judge's permission for any period of time during the round, that player loses the match."
So my question is, can a judge permit a bathroom break, yet enforce a penalty of automatically losing the match if time runs out?
Did you know that if you take a bathroom break in the middle of a match, you automatically LOSE if the series goes to time?
The Rules document does give this direction for a judge to use to determine a winner for an unresolved match: "If one player was late to the match or was away from the match without a judge's permission for any period of time during the round, that player loses the match."
So my question is, can a judge permit a bathroom break, yet enforce a penalty of automatically losing the match if time runs out?