Its the percentage of your total games that you have lost on time, ie that you have 'timed out' in.
I imagine that the organisers of some tournaments don't want people to sign up and then skew the tournament results by losing lots of games on time
Timeout Ratio?
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Chess.com, not tournament directors, set a blanket 10% timeouts restriction for tournaments.
http://www.chess.com/tournaments/help.html#register
Although it states tournament directors can change the criteria I have found that only the minimum number of games can be changed.
For some reason I am not elidgeble to play in tournament because my "timeout ratio" is higher than 10%. I don't even know what that is. Could someone please explain?