Logical Disconnect · Backstage · quizbowl https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/ Logical Disconnect · Backstage · quizbowl en Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0400 The scoring screen finally survives a projector https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/backstage/quizbowl/scoring-screen-projector/ https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/backstage/quizbowl/scoring-screen-projector/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Got the scoring screen working on a projector at 1080p. This sounds like nothing and took two evenings, because a function-room projector is not a monitor: it is a monitor with the contrast turned down, viewed from forty feet, by people holding drinks.

What changed: everything went up two steps on the type scale, the team colours got a shape as well as a hue, and the row separators went from hairlines to something you can actually see from the back.

--score-name:  32px -> 54px
--score-value: 40px -> 76px
--row-rule:     1px -> 3px

Phones still lag about a second behind on the reveal. I suspect the websocket fan-out rather than the render, because the lag scales with the number of connected phones and not with the complexity of the question. Next evening’s job.

]]> Rewrote the buzzer path to trust the server clock instead of the phone's. Ties dropped from "constant" to "twice in forty rounds". https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/backstage/quizbowl/buzzer-path-server-clock/ https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/backstage/quizbowl/buzzer-path-server-clock/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Rewrote the buzzer path to trust the server clock instead of the phone’s. Ties dropped from “constant” to “twice in forty rounds”.

]]> First real run: 38 people, one projector, one very hot laptop. It held. https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/backstage/quizbowl/first-real-run/ https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/backstage/quizbowl/first-real-run/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400 First real run: 38 people, one projector, one very hot laptop. It held.

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