I Can't join any tourneys

Bit gutted I can't join no tournaments due to my time out ratio, as a paying member I think this should be over rided. What do you paying members think of this encription put in place?

As a paying member, I don't want to play in a tournament with someone who times out a lot.

Play more games and fix the dang timeout ratio.  Every time you actually finish a game, it goes down.

I had some time out a month ago, tried to join a tourney it wouldnt let me... How do i sort the time ratio out? @ the moment i'm only playing live games.

Your current timeout ratio is

http://www.chess.com/echess/profile/chipgraber

This is the problem game 

chipgraber (986)

Prerak___Choksi___ (1154)

0-1 (lost)

15

4 Sep 2011

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Just wait. If you have no more timeouts you will be at zero % around December 4.

As a new player with really no timeouts at all, 1 time out of 3 games played, you could conceivably lower the ratio to 10% by playing and not timing out in seven games.

You might be interested in this.  http://www.chess.com/forum/view/livechess/live-chess-tournaments---almost-there

Playing LIve Chess does nothing for your time out percentage.

Paying or not shouldn't matter.

Thanks for the tips.

I wouldn't worrry too much; the same thiong happened to me before when I was on vacation once, but it'll wear off eventually (provided ytou don't do it too frequently) and there are enough timeout-doesn't-matter tournaments anyway.