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Tournament Directing Software
    Keywords: Tournament, Software

Software can be of great assistance when Tournament Directing. Such programs typically manage a registry of players, manage the draw for each round, and allow match results to be entered.

Free software

These programs are distributed under a [ext] free software license, and can thus be freely modified, shared, sold etc.

Non-free software

These programs have license terms that restrict the freedom of users more than free software.

Non-free, zero-cost

These programs are non-free but can be used for zero price.

Non-free, commercial

These programs are non-free and require payment to the vendor to use all or some of the features.

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Bignose: I've been trying to find a free software program for directing a Go tournament, and have only come across Gotha; it has a text file that offers the source code if you email the author, though I've not yet received a response.

Apart from that, there appears to be very little free software for running *any* kind of game tournament; there is some for running networked video games, but those aren't a lot of use for board games.

So I'd like to start a project to fill this gap; a free software library, and at least one application, for running board game tournaments (initially Go, because that's my present need). Please help me determine the Tournament Directing Software Requirements.


Christoph Gerlach: My pairing program MacMahon is not OpenSource but it is "Non-free, zero-cost", that means it is freeware until I renounce. And there are some more pairing programs available with the same policy.


Jared Roach has written a [ext] software for Macintosh based on HyperCard?, called MacTD.
It works very well (the interface has very basic graphics, but who cares?) and supports many pairing algorythms, not only MacMahon (McMahon?): Equality, Swiss, MM, Equality-MM, Swiss-MM, Sequential MM, Desperation, Pre-pairs Winner...
Despite his statement of not having much time to better his program, Jared is keenly available, and he has modifyed his software to meet my specific needs in running tournaments.
-- DJ



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