I have to recommend digital timers; those foldable black ones that
appear standard at NAQT events are perfectly fine. Not only do analog
clocks cause you to have to guess precisely how much time is left, it's
very hard to read them correctly if you're not sitting directly in
front of the moderator's table. At last year's NAQT undergrad final,
for example, the player desks were spread out across the stage, and
parallax defeated my attempts to follow the clock.
Plus, the prices on a single one of those analog timers run from $91 on
the Zeecraft site to over $170 on the site you linked. I imagine that a
team could buy a great deal of the digital timers for that amount of
money.
> If you're talking about the analog timers with big
> hands that are
> visible even from the back of the room (I really
> like those clocks ...
> people should buy more of them)