Timeout Ratio Restrictions

I lost several games on time recently in a no-vacation tournament, due to unforseen circumstances in life outside of chess. Now, every tournament I try to enter, I get a "timeout ratio must be below 10%", or something along those lines.

First, how does one even determine what one's timeout ratio is? I don't see it among the stats. Short of doing some painstaking analysis to determine how many games I lost on time, is there a place to find out what the ratio is?

Second, if you can't enter any more tournaments, how the hell are you supposed to be able to get the timeout ratio down? As much as I understand the purpose of this, to prevent people from abandoning games etc., it seems that this is an unreasonable bar to playing if it applies to all tournaments. 

I'd very much appreciate someone on the support side to respond to this.

Thanks,

Craig

Click on HOME -> Online Chess. The stats are over on the right.

You can play ordinary games (including Team Matches) - just not tournaments games - to reduce your timeout ratio.

The prohibition on joining tournaments if your %timeout ratio is > 10% is at the discretion of the Tournament Director (though it is the default setting). You may find some tournaments that do not impose this constraint. However, this requirement is not made visible in the tournament description; so the only way to find out is to try to join one.

Presumably, the games you timed out of were NO VACATION tournaments. Personally, I never join such tournaments - since I can't guarantee to be able to access the site at all times.

Thanks - though I do not see any timeout ratio in the stats.

Sorry, I take that back...I found it, thanks.

I agree with Giap, I'm now in the same boat do to having an operation. I enjot the competitive natue of the tournamnents and now can't find any I can play in. Maybe the period needs to be more than 90 days?

It used to be that the timeouts were counted from the start.  If something happened then, you might get a high timeout ratio that would be effectively impossible to reduce and be nearly permanently locked out of tournaments.  The 90 day limit was added in order to guarantee that didn't happen any more.  Now, if you can't reduce your timeout percentage effectively, the worst you have to wait is three months.  And as Artfizz pointed out, there are still plenty of options for playing games.  You can even start your own tournament with relaxed restrictions in order to continue playing.

In order to reduce your timeout percentage before the 90-day period, you need to actively play (and finish) games faster than you have in the past 90 days.  If you reduce the number of games you're playing, your timeout percentage can increase even if you don't timeout in any more games; in other words, the total number of games being counted will decrease making the percentage of timeouts greater.

What's the difference between losing on time and being assessed a timeout ratio?