Stalling

Penalty: Disqualification

Definitions and Philosophy: When a player intentionally is playing slowly to gain an advantage due to the time limits in a round or rounds. The key difference between Stalling and Slow Play is intentionality; if a player playing slowly is doing so unintentionally, a Slow Play infraction is more appropriate.

Examples:

• A player is winning in the match record and plays significantly more slowly to disadvantage the opponent regarding available time to play in the round, detracting from a fair competitive setting

• A player is losing a game/match is plays more slowly to take advantage of the round timer.

• A player takes any repetitive actions or performs actions more slowly than reasonably expected in order to slow the pace of the game to gain an advantage (shuffling slowly, excessively, picking up and reading cards with no apparent purpose, etc. with the intent to slow down the game.

• A player has no cards, resources, or options available to them to affect the game but spends more than a reasonable amount of time contemplating/planning the current turn/following turn given current information.