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DGT Board in Rapid Tournament

I would love to request the following feature.

When a player plays with a DGT Board in a rapid tournament , before the match starts there is a little pop-up that he knows what colour he has. So that he can setup the board accordingly and when the DGT function of Lichess detect that the position is correct the match starts immediately.

The reason for this is that he is a real race to setup the board before the game start en you don't get timed out.
FWIW I bought a Lazy Suzan to solve this issue with my Certabo board.
the main issue with the DGT boards is that most people use the USB boards which means they are always plugged into the computer, turning the board round and losing connection could result in reconnection issues in some cases. however with the DGT boards it is possible to set up board from either side, white does not nessecarilly have to be at the bottom and black at the top the board is capable of knowing the correct position from either side. so i can see both sides but yeah i would also like to see an option to know which colour i'm playing in advance aswell tbh :D

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