1st thing is that q2 lives mostly online today 2nd is that you actually can't control timers usage on all the servers this means that timers will go online anyway, and so i can see no point to refuse them on the LAN tourney that happens 1 time in 37820948 years
i guess without timings 1v1 games will be more exiting, instead of running across whole map and picking up all powerups, just like under the schedule...That's my opinion, nothing more