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A question both for admins and other players:

I just got kicked out of a game due to my time running out during the break animations, I went over with 2 seconds on my turn, then the other guy triggered a break and subsequently kicked me during the animations.

1. Is there a way to disable break animations to save that time?
2. Is this something new?
I know that if I'm trying to kick someone out it won't allow me to do it immediately, I have to wait 20 seconds and it's disabled during the break animations.

Maybe it's a "Premium" feature...

I have over a 1000 games in arknova, and usually don't take it too seriously as I'm often playing in between sets in the gym, but I noticed a difference since I've been sick and at home playing on my desktop for the last few games against 400-600 rank players so it sucks to get a loss during the break animations.

I am also curious on how the 20 seconds kick timer actually works. I know that if you spam the button, sometimes it bypasses those 20 seconds.