Why must the answer to relate to the audience? Is it just because the preceding sentence was regarding how the audience could react? Because the specific sentence in question is in reference to "participants," I assumed that it would involve the actors, ...
Just for fun, because I noticed both my wife and I say LSAC/LSAT differently. I go the "word" approach and sat ELSAT, where she goes the letter approach and says L-S-A-T.