'The Gadgetman' review

Name: Contester Board
Maker: Lava Inside
Cost: 200L$
Permissions: Mod/Transfer
Prims: 34
I love Gadgets, hence my title. However what I love most are gadgets which do what they set out to do with the minimum of fuss and unnecessary frills.
Club competitions are one of those things where a host just needs things to 'do it' and not make them remember loads of commands.
A recent device I found reduces one of the main activities in SL club life to lets say 3 button clicks. Its so simple even Tangle can host a competition without fouling up, wow !
Basically it covers just about all the bases for a club board, display name of competition and names of entrants, opening voting closes off entry to last minute chancers, easy click the name to vote, and auto payout of winners.
The fascia is texture mod'able and the package comes supplied with 9 premade textures to customise your look.
The maker also has a free box of around 17 extra textures at his store, and at least one of the popular aftermarket skin makers (Enchanted Realm Designs) have told me they intend to support it with the possibility of club personalised textures etc.

Drawbacks - a couple.
As is common with all 'letter rezzing' devices it can be quite slow to update. Not a fault of this particular board, but something all similar systems have in common.
Also the board as it stands cannot remove entrants who are no longer present at the venue. However a quick im to its maker (Lord Leafblower) and he assures me that :
"Lord Leafblower: v2 will indeed feature removal and gated voting controlled by the host. and will be supplied to existing owners for free."

To sum up a great piece of club equipment, that does exactly what it needs to do and no more, for a great price.
Once the entrant removal system is in place this will be a very desirable accessory to run Club events.
LM : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Payens/187/185/751

Tangletwigs "The Gadget Man"