Just A Minute

I'd like to discuss something very near and dear to my heart, the
notion of 'withdrawing challenges'.

this is something that challengers and panelists often wish to do, but
Nicholas more often than not will say 'you can't do that in this game'
and then goes on about that if you interrupt someone, you stop their
flow, blah blah blah.

Now, I think that you should be allowed to withdraw your challenge in
the game, and the result being that NO POINTS are awarded or charged
or whatever in any context and the person that was interrupted keeps
going.

After all, in the early days of the programme Nicholas often would
charge no points for certain interruptions that nowadays earn people
bonus points left, right and center.

I mean if a person wishes to withdraw a challenge, they should be
allowed to do so.