Development for Tournaments
Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 12:28 am
We have just rolled out one of the largest site changes ever to add Tournaments to the site in an official capacity. If you go to the "Games" section in the menu you will see "Tournaments" which is a new page.
This page will show all Ongoing, Finished, Spectating, Participating, and Open for Registration tournaments on the site. If you're a tournament director or mod you'll also see "Moderating"
Each tournament will be displayed in grey "bubble" with several expandable clickable fields such as "Description" which will have a full detailed explanation of the tournament and it's rules, as well as "Round 1- x" depending on how many rounds of that tournament currently have games going or finished.
The only 1 we've back populated so far is ODC 2019, so you can see the Rounds section shows you a quick overview of every game and it's status. Including whether it's stuck on WFO, and if so, when it should have processed.
You will also see a link to "Search Round 1 games" which will move you to the gamelistings page where you can search with the site's game search through only round 1 ODC 2019 games.
There's another page called "Scoring and Participants" which is a table view of every player who's played in one of the ODC games, and their score. This will have to be populated by a mod or TD when the round finishes. But the display should make it easy for them to populate the data.
TD's now automatically get "Game Director" powers over every game in their tournament so they won't have to have mod status and if they post in the global chat of a game it will show as "Tournament Director" instead of "Moderator"
Everyone in the ODC will see a "My Tournaments" bubble on your home page in the bottom right below spectated games with a link to the ODC tournament info.
Everyone else can spectate the tournament which puts the same bubble on your display. Clicking the icon to the right of "My tournaments" or "Spectated Tournaments" will take you to the tournaments page and show you the tab for your participating or spectated games.
There's a lot more coming for this feature, such as showing 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners on the Finished tournament tab, and showing on your profile if you win a tournament.
We're also going to integrate signing up for tournaments into the site with a way for TD's to approve or reject each applicant.
If you have questions please let us know below.
This was a joint effort between myself and squigs44, who did the scoring page, the changes to game search, and the TD powers. A big thanks to him for all his help on this!
This page will show all Ongoing, Finished, Spectating, Participating, and Open for Registration tournaments on the site. If you're a tournament director or mod you'll also see "Moderating"
Each tournament will be displayed in grey "bubble" with several expandable clickable fields such as "Description" which will have a full detailed explanation of the tournament and it's rules, as well as "Round 1- x" depending on how many rounds of that tournament currently have games going or finished.
The only 1 we've back populated so far is ODC 2019, so you can see the Rounds section shows you a quick overview of every game and it's status. Including whether it's stuck on WFO, and if so, when it should have processed.
You will also see a link to "Search Round 1 games" which will move you to the gamelistings page where you can search with the site's game search through only round 1 ODC 2019 games.
There's another page called "Scoring and Participants" which is a table view of every player who's played in one of the ODC games, and their score. This will have to be populated by a mod or TD when the round finishes. But the display should make it easy for them to populate the data.
TD's now automatically get "Game Director" powers over every game in their tournament so they won't have to have mod status and if they post in the global chat of a game it will show as "Tournament Director" instead of "Moderator"
Everyone in the ODC will see a "My Tournaments" bubble on your home page in the bottom right below spectated games with a link to the ODC tournament info.
Everyone else can spectate the tournament which puts the same bubble on your display. Clicking the icon to the right of "My tournaments" or "Spectated Tournaments" will take you to the tournaments page and show you the tab for your participating or spectated games.
There's a lot more coming for this feature, such as showing 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners on the Finished tournament tab, and showing on your profile if you win a tournament.
We're also going to integrate signing up for tournaments into the site with a way for TD's to approve or reject each applicant.
If you have questions please let us know below.
This was a joint effort between myself and squigs44, who did the scoring page, the changes to game search, and the TD powers. A big thanks to him for all his help on this!