<< why couldn't you just display the
questions one word
(or a few words, etc.) at a time and
not worry about reading the text of
the
tossup?>>
Hrm. My feelings on why we should keep reading allowed
in hearing-impaired matches is twofold. First of
all, I want to minimize deviation from standard
procedure to minimize inconvenience to all the hearing
teams. Second of all is a big, big can of worms about
how the brain processes information.
Regular
QBers train to respond to auditory cues, but aptitudes
vary. Some people play far better in the chatroom,
reading the questions, than they do in actual
tournaments, hearing the questions. Regular QB has always been
a primarily auditory game...it started on radio;
audio questions far outnumber video questions; we buzz
in, not blink in. So what I'm now led to wonder is
whether a game without reading aloud is even really the
same game as something with flashed
images.
Edmund