You should look for a pattern. Were the timeouts all at once? Was there a verifiable catastrophic event in the players life? (...)
Now on the other hand if the timeouts occur every week for months at a time that's a different problem.
Exactly.
I don't want to know the reason for the timeouts, it's just too complicated.
You are right here. Some time ago I was a member of a kind of board for online chess tournament, where it was discussed whether people who missed the game should be punished (by temporary ban). There was no way to know whether given player really had electricity outage, or is just lying
How do I clear old games from my computer ? Thanks .
Awsome. I'm sorry I missed this the first time around. They're more than rare.
"But can I get the internet on it?"
I don't want to know the reason for the timeouts, it's just too complicated. It would be nice though if you could bound the data. What is their timeout % in their last 100 games? What is their timeout % in the last calendar year? In the last 3 months? etc...