<<Development of some computer system for reading questions was the most problematic in the short term, but probably presents the best solutions in the long term. In its final form, the proposal was that a Powerpoint or Powerpoint-like program would scroll-reveal one word of a tossup at a time, and that the moderator would read at the rate that words were revealed; at the same time, the output would be projected onto an overhead screen. Teams would continue to see power marks, but would near-simulatneous access to every word of the question; furthermore, speed of text display should be easily adjustable by the moderator. On the other hand, converting and formatting the questions would have been a slow process, unless there were some program that could automatically interpret the question sets, or read flags in them, to create individual slides for each tossup and an easy interface to call sequential boni as needed. >> Why is it necessary for both teams to see the power marks in this scenario? Assuming you're working from an electronic copy of the questions, the bolding and the marks could be removed from the copy seen by the teams, and teams could chance their buzzes with the moderator revealing whether a correct answer was a power afterwards, as usual. --M.W.
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