Pausing tournament game

[Kosh]

Don't allow pause in correspondence tournaments and ladder games

I just took a look on some of my long-running correspondence tournaments. In 2 of them the last pending games were “Paused”. One of these games is on pause for 4 months, no stone played jet and the player which paused it isn’t around for month. I asked the players in question to continue their games and will inform the tournament director if they don’t. But I wonder how many tournament games are unnoticed on pause. I would like if the “Pause” is either not possible in correspondence tournamen…

My opponent paused our game. What to do?

Totally agree. Totally dude. Scenario: In a tournament Person A pauses his game with Person B. Person B doesn’t mind or doesn’t care or has actually quit playing. (edit: or doesn’t notice.) Whole tournament ends up paused indefinitely without the permission of person C,D,E etc. until someone realises what’s happened and involves a Mod. It’s perfectly reasonable to pause a game by mutual consent but in a tournament no consent is sought or given by all the other participants.