I have played enough games where there have been times where I got into "chat" back and for and it resyncs, or like you said, keep turning controller on and off again and maybe something happens. But have played this mode so much to know there is no one "fix" to this issue. Sometimes you are just literally stuck in a complete wait off. And since penalties are so egregiously bad, people will wait for eternity before dropping the game...and I get it. The penalties are insane and stupid. Why do they even exist? If a game does not freeze and I am getting reamed, I would just concede. I know kids these days don't do that, but geez - Point being - we should not face any penalty because of a game/programming/server/console conflict issue. They should just eliminate the penalty.