[manudude03]

The problem with these so called timeouts are not only does each table have to start in the same order, they also need to be playing at the same speed which would only slow the game down.

[cherdano]

Don't worry about estimating the score. If this is your first time playing teams, your estimates may be quite bad. And nothing more frustrating for your team mates than having a great session, but still losing because you thought you were behind, and went swinging crazy to convert a 10 IMP lead into a loss on the last two boards.

[FrancesHinden]

32519, on 2013-April-20, 08:16, said:

In the early stages of the round robin matches, or the early stages of the knockout matches, there is no need to change this. However, as the round robin or knockout matches start drawing to a close, introduce a new ruling –
1. The boards in both rooms must now be played in numerical sequence.
2. After say, every two boards now, the trailing team can ask for a “time out” to assess the current situation. Now they can start becoming reckless to try stay in the tournament. As already said, if the recklessness backfires, so what? They were on the point of elimination anyway.

Any takers?

This already happens after every 8 or 16 boards (usually) when you score up. If that's not enough for you, play team games on BBO. They give you the running score after every board.
Or play barometer pairs where you know the running score after every round.

In my opinion, it makes team games less interesting and less skillful as well as taking considerably longer.