An auction is a room event: the moment a player sells should land on a big screen with everyone watching. Here is how to set up the screens so the night runs itself.
Three screens, three jobs
- The cockpit
- the auctioneer's controls: call a player, watch bids arrive, mark the result.
- The board
- the projector screen: who is on the block, the current price, every team's purse and squad, the biggest buys and the last few sales.
- The overlay
- a transparent lower-third for streaming software, laid over your camera feed.
Setting up the room
- Publish the season before the night, so the board opens on a laptop that is not signed in.
- Copy the board's link from the cockpit and open it on the laptop plugged into the projector. Leave it running — it has no buttons to press.
- Owners bid from their own phones; nobody needs to stand at the laptop.
- Streaming? Add the overlay's link as a browser source in your streaming software.
If something drops
Every screen follows the same live record. A phone or the projector laptop that loses the network reconnects to exactly where the room is, so nothing has to be repeated.