Count night
For whoever is running the evening — usually the club president, holding a microphone in a room that has been waiting since March.
Before the evening
Close every round. The live count refuses to start while a round is still open, because a room watching a count that could still change is not watching a count.
Check who is coming. Count night needs someone with tally access to drive it — the same permission as the running tally, because it reveals the same thing. If the person driving the screen does not have it, an admin grants it on the voting panel page beforehand rather than in the dark.
Decide what is going public. Nothing is published until you say so, and publishing is a separate act after the season is finished.
Driving the count
Count night walks the season one round at a time: who polled, what they polled, and the standings as they were after that round. It is built to be read out — put it on a screen behind you and step through it.
Between rounds it surfaces the moments the count already knew: the player who polled their first votes, the round somebody swept, the night the lead changed. These are things a room reacts to and no spreadsheet ever mentions.
The winner is at the end, where it belongs.
Several trophies on one night? The last screen offers the other awards at the same club and season you can see the count of, so the evening walks from one to the next without anybody hunting for a URL in the dark.
The whole evening costs the club one entry in the audit log, not one per round: everything is read once when the page loads.
Letting the room follow along
Go live gives you a link to hand round. Anyone with it can follow the count on their own phone — at the back of the room, or at home with a broken ankle.
A follower never sees past where you are. The screen you are driving decides what has been revealed; the followers' pages show that and nothing further. Somebody refreshing furiously cannot get ahead of the room.
The link is worth putting on a poster — Posters prints one with a QR square on it — and worth sending to the group chat that afternoon.
End the live count when the evening is over.
If the projector dies
Print gives you the whole count on paper, formatted to be read from. Every browser turns that into a PDF. Print it that afternoon and the evening survives a laptop that will not talk to the television, which is a thing that happens in clubhouses.
Afterwards
Finish the season. This opens the record to everyone on the panel and lets you publish. It cannot be undone — which is exactly what allows the record to be shown to people who were never given tally access.
The winner card is an image to post: the club, the award, the winner, the votes, and the two behind them. An admin downloads it and posts it; the app never posts anything on your behalf, and never shows the card anywhere before you have chosen to.
Once the award is published, the card carries a QR square linking to the page explaining how the award was counted. That is the square to point at when somebody in the comments has a theory.
Publish the award to put it on the club's public page.
The season recap email tells the panel and the club what happened.
The engraver wants the winner's name, the year, the award and the club — copy them off the result page.