Originally posted by Nephthys
They need the chance to contribute.
Not really.
If someone just has, say, a *button* they have to push occasionally during a fight, that's still a disadvantage. "Take out the occasional quarter-second pause to do a minor task" can prevent someone the opportunity to attack, or it can give an opening for their foe to press the advantage, or so on. It matters.
IMO they won't get that because a few of them will get cut down at the start, or taken out with the Force.
Which all takes time. If someone is cut down with the force, then someone else has that time to more advantageously position themselves. If someone is taken out with the force, then someone else can force-attack at the same time.
If someone force attacks and takes someone else out, but then the attacker is hit with a force-push in return, then the dying person still contributed and the attacker still lost the initiative.
The way you talk about it it sounds like "every stands still while the one is given a chance to individually take time to take out everyone who's individually weak," and it just has never worked that way. If someone is attacking a weak person, then that still gives another strong person enough time to attack them. That the weak person is weak doesn't suddenly make it take 0 time, it still takes a quarter second, a half second, or in the case of these councilors, probably more like 5-10 seconds.
You yourself have pointed out that Mace needs some time to get his Vapaad ready and seize the initiative, so Kolar and Tiin will go down in that time.
One, I really doubt they'll go down that fast, this is not Sidious, Bane doesn't rush in the same way. Each of them on their own is probably strong enough to last a few exchanges with Bane.
Two, that still gives Mace the advantage. Fisto and Windu will then proceed to be in great positions to attack Bane and take the win.
And the RotS fight just happened to be a time when numbers didn't matter at all.
Mace got Sidious on his back due to having those three.
There's an odd definition of 'didn't matter' that includes 'changed the outcome completely to his favor'.