Dragon Go Server / Tournaments

Page to discuss implementation of tournaments for DGS.

Table of contents Tournament Features (possible/planned) Links Useful for implementation

• Legend:
  • T = Tournament
  • TD = Tournament Director (can manage T)
  • TP = Tournament Participant (plays in T)
  • TA = Tournament Admin (can help TDs in managing Ts)

Tournament Features (possible/planned)

• Tournament-Process (Status)
  • NEW = setup new tournament (description, tournament rules, registration properties, game rules)
  • REG = registration phase (application or registration by user, invitation by TD)
  • PAIR = pairing, setup games for tournament
  • PLAY = playing phase
  • FINISHED = tournament finished

• Tournament-Scopes
  • Dragon = official Dragon tournaments
  • Public = tournaments open to every DGS user
  • Private = "invite"-tournaments (e.g. for Ts with "fee" or special group)

• Tournament-Types, see also TournamentFormat
  • Round-Robin T
  • Ladder T = King of the Hill
  • (?) Knock-Out, Double K.O., McMahon
  • Leagues, Team-Tournament

• Tournament features, which needs special handling (with Process-State)
  • REG: TD can "set" TP for higher rounds
  • REG: TP/TD can set different rating than DGS-rating or for users without rating
  • REG: TD has full control of T-registration, T-games and T-results for "punishment" (unfair conduct, escapers, swindlers) or "adjudication"
  • PLAY: Vacation-handling (ON/OFF)
  • PLAY: forbid "adding time" in game by TPs, allow "adding time" for TDs
  • PLAY: forbid game-deletion by TPs
  • PAIR: Pairing algorithms (depends on T-type): slaughther, slide, adjacent, random; "bars"; TD has full (manual) control over "pairing"
  • PLAY: T-Scoring: TieBreaker, HahnSystem

• Related features
  • Tournament log for TDs
  • Bulletin-Board for T-announcements
  • Ticket-System for T-support

Links

• Known Tournaments on DGS.
• Organizing a T
• Go-Guilde: http://business.baylor.edu/steve_rich/go/rules.html
• TournamentDirectingSoftware

Useful for implementation

• Examples for T-games/results:
  • http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p6wtm-AUn1NmziCSIU-oeGg
  • http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p6wtm-AUn1NmURr6h4S45Kg
  • http://gobond.nl/Toernooien/644/special/CrossTable.html

• Specs, Implementation of DGS-Ts:
  • DDL