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Originally Posted by ratdude747
Here's an idea I had over dinner.
Make audience selection done via some sort of app or website. I'll preface that unless I have a work conflict, I'll be volunteering to scorekeep at IRI, so any resulting scorekeeper burdens I acknowledge and accept 
The idea is that since IRI is an often watched livestream, for an audience selection to really reflect the audience, the livestream viewers should also have a say. In addition, this gives a more quantitative result to choose from. Finally, it frees up a little bit of cycle time (not that it's enough to care about).
Here's how it would work: When the selection is "scheduled" the MC announces the selection. AV shows the defense screen (which scorekeepers can do w/o making a selection at that time). Then the next match proceeds, during which people (including livestream viewers) vote on the defense. After the score is announced for the match, the selection's result is announced and entered into FMS (possibly the app's result screen shown by AV). While that puts the actual selection one match later than normal, as long as the choice is made before prestarting the first match using that selection, FMS is happy. |
This is a cool way to do it that feels more quantitative.
The one thing about audience selected defenses is that it does give you another piece of information to use during strategy discussions. Knowing 2/5 of the defenses prior to the match helps very much with match strategy.