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I still like the idea of a double or nothing challenge.  If you win your challenge, you get the point (or a replay).  If you lose (including the cameras didn't get a view of the play), you lose another point.  That should stop the challenge-as-timeout ploy.

I bet coaches would hate this, it would raise the stakes too high for some challenges. Sometimes the challenges are valid but there isn't enough video evidence, and sometimes the officials screw up the video review like they did in one of our matches earlier this year with a totally obvious net violation that they somehow didn't see on review. There already is an incentive not to use low-probability challenges for timeouts: you lose them and might need them later as BYU did. If there is a problem with coaches using challenges instead of timeouts, which I'm not sure there is, the answer might be to lose a timeout if you lose a challenge. Or maybe during challenges, the challenging team (or both teams) has to stay on the opposite side of the court from the coaches and no communication is allowed.

[oldalum]

I still like the idea of a double or nothing challenge.  If you win your challenge, you get the point (or a replay).  If you lose (including the cameras didn't get a view of the play), you lose another point.  That should stop the challenge-as-timeout ploy.

I bet coaches would hate this, it would raise the stakes too high for some challenges. Sometimes the challenges are valid but there isn't enough video evidence, and sometimes the officials screw up the video review like they did in one of our matches earlier this year with a totally obvious net violation that they somehow didn't see on review. There already is an incentive not to use low-probability challenges for timeouts: you lose them and might need them later as BYU did. If there is a problem with coaches using challenges instead of timeouts, which I'm not sure there is, the answer might be to lose a timeout if you lose a challenge. Or maybe during challenges, the challenging team (or both teams) has to stay on the opposite side of the court from the coaches and no communication is allowed.