Careful Teamwork and Saving Finale

[Pharothan]

I was playing in a game last week, and I had Careful Teamwork going, and I had need to cast Saving Finale. Is this possible? I was arguing that we had "a bardic performance in effect", but he believed that would only be during the 3 rounds of actual performance to generate the effect. We moved on, but he recommended I post here for an opinion.
Thanks ahead of time.

[Patrick Harris @ SD]

I would agree with that ruling. You can't triumphantly finish something that you aren't in the process of doing.

[Atarlost]

Yeah. Yet another reason bards without inspire courage or a similar universally useful combat performance kind of suck. Saving Finale is in the running for best level 1 spell at higher levels.