Let me finish arena games when the tournament timer runs out.

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I've seen tons of these but I'll throw it out again.  Let us finish Arena matches for anything 10 minutes or less.  All it does is encourage people to stall and just make the final 1.5x match time left in the tournament pointless.  I don't buy the "people want results now" argument.  These arena tournaments literally start over again on cooldown.  The results and the tournaments themselves aren't special or anything, so why not just play through the matches and not waste everyones time.

For anyone arguing that it makes you play faster to try and win, that's dumb.  I'm not the highest rated player in the world, but playing faster than typical for your given match times just increases the likelihood of blunders.  And there's no motivation or pressure for the opponent to match your pace.  They can just relax, wait for a speed blunder, or time out for a draw.  There's literally no upside to playing faster, no downside to playing standard pace, and a slight upside to playing slow if you're at any type of disadvantage.