chiefdogHowever, the system doesn't exert enough pressure and there isn't any emphasis or reward for good tempo and thus, any game can be slowed down to a point where as both teams are content to stalemate on their respective points and jerk off until the timer runs out so they can do it all over again.
this is just not true. if you're DOWN any number of rounds you DO NOT want to stalemate cuz then you just fucking lose.
the only time you want to slow the game down (not even necessarily stalemate) when you are UP rounds (in my opinion) is when you are up 3+ rounds early in the match, or 2+ rounds late in the match. every single time i have played on a team and we go "hey we are up 1-2 rounds we can slow it down :)" we INSTANTLY get fucked by that false sense of security and get snowballed back to a tie game or worse. and when i say every time, i mean EVERY time. i honest to god cannot think of a situation in this game where you would want to stalemate other than if you're up like 4-1 with 5 minutes left in the match.
i know the purpose of your post is that "in theory it can happen", which is true, but when you get down to an actual in-game scenario i dont think any team should be content to "stalemate on their respective points and jerk off until the timer runs out so they can do it all over again."