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I love timed rounds. Not only do they help prevent bad writing, by forcing people to summarize rather than dump the encyclopedia entry verbatim, but it helps save tournaments.

Those of you who missed out on the most exciting tournament of the weekend, nothing can get your engines revved like having your reservation trumped in mid tournament. S'anyway, CMU's high school deal was trumped twice in one week, first by Boy Scouts, then by a too-full-of-his-own-importance Princeton Review pinhead. The second one was the big one, necessitating us moving two buildings over, regrouping, and putting the tab room in the hallway. In spite of this, we moved over, pulled together, and put together a great tournament. So why do I say timed rounds saved it. Well, thanks to the delays we lost about 90 minutes total. Somehow, we managed in spite of all this, we managed to gain 60 minutes back during rounds. While I credit the staff for working great under fire, I shudder to think what would have happened.had the rounds not been timed, and had they not been written to be played timed. I've never seen an untimed tournament get delay time back, but I see this effect all the time on the clock.