If you haven't yet, check out BASIL. It's a 24/7 Starcraft league, but for bots! It usually runs fine nowadays. But sometimes an external hiccup occurs. One of those is the problem of detecting who to blame if a game times out. It works fine if the game ends with the in-game timeout of 60min, since the Tournament Module BASIL uses will make both bots leave and select the winner based on the score (That might be unfair, but that's a topic for another post).
But if a game gets killed because it took to long (wall-clock time), what then? There are no scores, no replays - nothing essentially.
Besides a bot just hanging, most bots just take their time. So I wanted to penalize the slower bot in that case. This looked like a good idea back
in the beginning. For dll bots this works fine, but for client bots, it didn't work up until BWAPI 4.4.
As of today that means that games timing out in that fashion will not be counted. One could abuse this by timing out intentionally for imminent losses. I don't expect this to happen, the bot community is generally competitive, but also friendly and fair. (Totally unrelated: I can actually disable bots permanently)