The people who pause in spar to not get a loss, most likely are pausing on purpose. Like pretend if you get a text or are multi-tasking while it's your turn, and it pauses you...then that's accidental. It'll actually give you a loss and it'll warp you out of the arena right away. But, like some sparrers, who are too serious about their spar stats...They purposely press the power button so their screen gets locked(and maybe turn their iDevice off?), then it'd pause their characters. That pause will warp them out still, but it won't give them a loss.

That's what a friend told me like a long time ago, when they fixed the "paused". I'm not sure if that's actually true though. I guess if it's not true, then correct me. It'd be nice if GP staffs look into it, and fix that Paused issue though. Because I think most of us would rather like to see more legit sparrers than boosters .