End of game situation

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

I think we are all concur that looking at the clock simply by one of the officials constitutes enabling the clock to have time awarded to it. But in this situation at the end of a reasonably close game with you and your partner both focussing on the "skirmish more than the clock (which I think my assignor would prefer) let the game end?

All my supervisors say that they want at least one official standing back. If both/all are focusing on that one skirmish then another one could break out undetected, or players could be leaving the bench, etc. But when in Rome....