Ahli's suggestion about moving hypers at the bottom was incomplete. You really have to know what you're doing.
There's 3 ways to avoid wait blocks when working with waits and hyper triggers:
- Have them owned by All Players and move them on the bottom of the trigger list. However this will STILL cause a wait block, if each player is executing a wait the same time. But even if a wait block occurs it would just disable the hypers for the duration of the wait.
Make sure the hypers are last of ALL triggers. Do that, by marking Player 1-8, all forces and All Player and THEN move them down.

- Have the hypers owned by only one player that has no other waits.

- Switch Hypers

Ah ha, this worked. Thank you