I just ran into quite a few cases of this myself (timeouts when as White in the beginning of handicap games & being White in all of them due to rank being higher than average players in the handicap tournament) when a serious life event kept me from keeping up with games for a while, and also noticed this in another player’s profile – should something be done to adjust for handicap games ?
(especially as this would affect the stronger players in handicap tournaments disproportionately, basically making it likely to lose a large number of them in the event of a timeout, such as in such circumstances :
