I’ve decided to make a web based tournament management system for Mercenary Miniatures, the working title is Order of Battle, but I am sure that it will change in the future.
The project will be worked on in my spare time and no development schedule or launch date has been established.
The purpose of the project is to alleviate tournament organizers of some of the administrative tasks involved with running a tournament and to help advertise events.
The loosely organized goals of Order of Battle are:
Player Management and Record Keeping
- Order of Battle will keep a record of each player, the tournaments they attend and their rankings overall.
- The player will be able to manage a profile where they denote what game systems and what armies they play, their location and how far they are willing to travel for events.
- Players can manage social aspects such as friends or groups.
- Players can view their standings (Global, Region, Group, or compared to friends)
Tournament Organization, Automation, and Marketing
- Tournament Organizers will register their tournaments within the application.
- an email notification will be sent to all players that are willing to travel to the tournament (determined by the player’s preferences)
- Once the tournament has been created, Tournament organizers will be able to populate a bracket based on the players registered for the event.
- Tournament Organizers will have tools to dictate how the brackets are generated. (Elimination type, Scoring methods, Number of rounds, number of tables, non-repeating opponents, etc.)
- Non-Elimination and Single Elimination style tournaments will be supported, additional styles can be added in the future.
- Support for Team Tournaments where two or more players are allocated to a single bracket slot.
- Tournament Organizers will enter the results of each round and the tournament bracket will be update.
- Tables can be assigned names, number of players, mission types, etc.