I am used to singarounds that are in general smaller than the ones discussed here, and in private homes. However, the subject does come up, and here, FWIW, are my animadversions on it from an email discussion:

3. Queue discipline

How to decide who's next is a question that has been considered most extensively by the filkers, who have half a dozen systems with names (which I don't recall). In my experience, unless there is an actual swine in the company, catch as catch can works fine up to a size of 8 or so, and past that, strict rotation (with the usual options of passing & of making a request to someone else) has the virtue of simplicity, tho it lacks the charm of one song suggesting the next. Another system is for the one who is it to throw a beanbag to, or at, the one who is next.

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