Competitive Time Limit Should Remain Unlimited or at Least Increased

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MintBiscuit13 messagesstarted May 29, 2026, 10:02 AM

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masomarek09OP3 days ago

I do agree that time limit of 1 hour is way too little. My most intensive and fun game took 1 hour 40 minutes and it was 9-12 clutch

blanket addict3 days ago

I thought the point of the time limit was so lower skill players would have less swingy game times and could queue knowing that the game will be over within an hour

blanket addict3 days ago(edited)

idk if it's a good tradeoff or not but I think that it's a matter of "what's better, games being able to go super long if things stay close but more games end from 13 goals, or for things to get cut off sooner and you can queue with that knowledge"

awesomeSallad3 days ago

I get this reasoning but the 1hr time limit just does too much damage to the game and playstyle that it’s not beneficial

MintBiscuitOP3 days ago

well with i noticed that lower skill players are most often going to send a draw request and then promptly forfeit if it isnt accepted as soon as they are in an unfavorable position. so with them i dont think its about knowing that the game is gonna be over in an hour

MintBiscuitOP3 days ago

queuing with the knowledge that your efforts could be haulted “mid” commit to any task seems unfavorable

plushie3 days ago

I am a chungus myself and one hour is too short for me but i think one justification for a short time limit is to make potential event scheduling at higher levels easier

Nindq3 days ago(edited)

Maybe it can be a custom private room setting

Nindq3 days ago(edited)

So at higher level events you can just set time limit

plushie3 days ago

Like increasing the time limit from 60 to 90 minutes means you will need to schedule 1/3 fewer matches per day and have potentially longer downtime between matches

pinkpuff3 days ago

Then the event can just set a custom timer , i dont really see how that would be any different than what ranked does for lcq. And at high level event stuff id hope the matches arent being determined by a 90min cutoff anyway

MintBiscuitOP3 days ago

agreed, top level play shouldn’t and would probably never feature 60 or 90 completions

Threadfinn3 hours ago

It should also at least be win by 2 instead of sudden death after the time limit. Like if there's 2 end goals the player who's down 11-12 might actually be winning but they would lose with this, changing how you have to play it.
Or say it's tied 11-11 at 55 minutes and two of the 3 remaining goals are amethyst. With no time limit playing for amethyst is obviously the correct play since the other goal doesn't really matter, but with the time limit it's probably better to focus that other goal to be up by 1 and win.