<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Last year a player in our group on the last game of the last set went and got a beer in the middle of the game. No-one in our group had a chance to make playoffs. He didn’t realize there was another group waiting on our game to finish. He actually made it back by the time a TD got there and put him on the clock.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 29, 2019, at 2:10 PM, Joe Schober via FSPA <<a href="mailto:fspa@fspazone.org" class="">fspa@fspazone.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Barry wrote...<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">This third item seems incongruous with the prior two. Assuming the incongruity does not invalidate it, does anyone know how long that usually would be deemed to be? Can I way for 2 minutes?</span></div><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I don't know the "official" answer, but I have NEVER experienced a situation where, after the previous player tilted (or even got warnings), anyone had a problem if you took a minute or two before taking control of the machine. I think the delay-of-game rule has to be in place to prevent someone from walking off for a smoke break when it's their turn, but everyone understands letting the tilt bob settle.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(And absolute worst case, let a complainant call a TD on you... odds are you're be playing by the time they arrive, and they'll likely just advise you to try to move things along because the whole tourney is time-constrained.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--Joe</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">FSPA mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:FSPA@fspazone.org" class="">FSPA@fspazone.org</a><br class="">http://lists.fspazone.org/mailman/listinfo/fspa<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>