The judge or chair runs the countdown; debaters, timekeepers and the audience hold the same link. Pause, add time and reset reach every screen at once.
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A debate is a set of timed speeches, and the timing is part of the contest. When only the timekeeper can see the clock, the speaker is left guessing, and the hand signals arrive late. A countdown on the speaker's own screen and on the wall makes the time a shared fact rather than a judgement call.
Give it a name if the room needs to know what the clock is for. Add a lead-in of a minute or two if people still have to open the link.
It is copied for you. Paste it in the chat, the calendar invite, the slide, or open it on the screen at the front of the room. There is no room code and nothing for anyone to join.
Every browser on the link reads the same countdown rather than keeping its own, so somebody who opens it late sees the time that is genuinely left. Pause it and the whole room stops; add five minutes and the whole room gets them.
The full length on the clock, visible to the speaker from the first word.
Both teams watch the same countdown, so nobody claims they started late.
A short, separate timer that both sides can see, which keeps the questions honest.
Send the link to every group, so each practice round runs to the real length.
The countdown is kept by the server, and every screen in the room is reading it rather than running its own. That is what makes the next three true at once.
Pause, resume, add time or reset, and it lands on every screen within a couple of seconds. Not your copy of the timer, the timer.
Every reply carries the server’s own time, and each browser corrects for the gap. A laptop set four minutes fast still finishes with the room.
The controls belong to the browser that created the timer, never to the link. Thirty people can hold the link and none of them can stop the lesson.
And still: nobody signs in, there is no room to join and no code to type, no limit on how many people open it, and the only thing stored is a length and whatever you called it — deleted a day after the countdown ends.
The timer is free and always will be. What it cannot do is remember what the twenty minutes decided, or whose job the outcome became.
Debaters improve by speaking often and watching it back. A plan built around short talks, recorded and reviewed, is one click away.
EvyOS holds the goals, projects, tasks and habits a shared workspace actually runs on. The timer stays free regardless.
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