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Clem: unlimited goals has loads of positives, the only negative is the inability to gain time as you've mentioned (although this is also a negative as there is no guarantee that you will gain any time during your tournament and it actually makes scheduling/planning things much less predictable!) See: http://leagueofbikepolo.com/forum/rules/2012/04/24/going-to-5#comment-99284
It's great news that unlimited goals is going down so well.
A quick note for organisers: Podium stats seem to state that 50% of games (mostly NA games as we don't use Podium) go to 5, this means that organisers are probably gaining an average of 2 minutes of time for half of their scheduled games (or around 1 minute per game).
For this reason, I would suggest moving to 4 minutes of "down time" between games at tournaments that use unlimited goals. The current normal of 10 minutes (with 2 minutes down time) for each game will be woefully inadequate if using unlimited goals (I've already found it inadequate as large scale tournaments and tend to use 10 minute games with 3 minutes of down time, etc).
It would be great if other tournaments move to unlimited goals, but we'll need to be careful not to over-schedule things, it's always good allow for more time than you need (or have a backup plan of dropping a round of swiss or something).