[Wentys]

I seem to often get kicked out playing the eighth board of a 8-board robot clocked tournament. Even though (I think) I was still within the 25-minute time limit and had time on my clock. Scores for the board are shown as A==. And then I don't end up in the result list anywhere.

Have I just exceeded the overall time limit for the tournament, or is there some mechanism that says something like "last three finishers get booted out"?
How does the mechanism work, and why, when there are typically 40 entries, are there typically only 35 finishers?

Thanks

[barmar]

It shouldn't end if you're playing while there's still time on the clock. The only time it ends early is when everyone who is online finishes playing. If someone gets disconnected and everyone else finishes, it won't wait for the disconnected player to return.

When there are only 35 finishers out of 40, it's usually because some of them were doing badly and withdrew, or they got disconnected.