@CubeLogic, consider the following scenario. You are up 1 second, and a pawn mates your partner. Your opponent has just forked your pawns. What do you do?
Obviously, you sit. But this could have potentially catastrophic endings for your team where you flag instead of your partner's opponent
actually, upon further analysis, i believe i should be giving a -1. Time is a paramount factor in bughouse games, and assisting those who are only 1 second or so down is not upon my playbook
No it would assist people who are up on time.