Tool to manage (e-)sports tournaments. It provides a CLI and supports the swiss system.
This should be as easy as running sudo snap install tournament-manager or sudo snap install --edge tournament-manager if you want the latest version.
If snaps are not available on your system, just clone the repository with git clone git@github.com:fabianWrede/tournament-manager.git, navigate to the source folder src/ and run python3 cli.py [arguments].
In the following, we assume that you can use tournament-manager to run the program, if not substitute it in your mind with python3 cli.py.
This is a command-line tool, so you have to run different commands from your preferred terminal.
In general, all commands are structured as follows:
tournament-manager {name-of-the-tournament} {command} {arguments}
First, you must create a tournament with
tournament-manager your-tournament create-tournament
The name of the tournament must be unique and you will be warned if there is already a tournament with the name.
There will be a file with the same name, which contains all necessary data in json format.
Someone will probably participate, so use the
tournament-manager your-tournament add-team {team-name}
command to add a team. Again, the name must be unique for that tournament and there will be warning if the name already exists.
All teams added?
Run tournament-manager your-tournament start-tournament to get started.
But I still don't know who plays against each other !?
No worries: tournament-manager your-tournament show-round
Enter the result with tournament-manager your-tournament {game-number} {points-team-a} {points-team-b}
And who is the winner?
tournament-manager your-tournament show-standings will show you the current standings for the tournament.
There is also an export command for rounds and the standings. It uses pdflatex to create a PDF document, if
for example, you want to print a round so that all participants in a tournament can easily check their next match.
Consequently, if you don't have pdflatex installed, the export won't work. On Ubuntu the probably easiest way to install Latex is
sudo apt install texlive-full or sudo apt install texlive texlive-latex-extra.
The commands for the export are export-round and export-standings and if you have installed it as a snap, the output PDFs will be in the folder
~/snap/tournament-manager/common/export/.
This tool was written with Petanque (or Boule) in mind. A game ends when one team has 13 points and there is usually always a winner.
The result for free rounds can already be changed with the -f flag for the create-tournament command.
BH: Buchholzpunkte (number of wins of all opponents)
FBH: Feinbuchholzpunkte (number of BH of all opponents)
SB: Sonneborn-Berger (number of wins of opponents the team has won against)
Koya: Koya :) (number of wins of oppenents that have won 50% or more of their matches)
All are numbers to determine a ranking of the teams.
Check for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie-breaking_in_Swiss-system_tournaments and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchholz_system
In German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feinwertung
- Number of wins
- Buchholzpunkte (wins of opponents)
- Feinbuchholzpunkte (Buchholzpunkte of opponents)
- Sonneborn-Berger (wins of opponents the team won against)
- Koya (wins of opponents that won more than or equal to 50% of their games)
- Direct encounter
- Point difference
- Scored points
- Number of free rounds (less is better)
- Performance Value
Each team has a performance value, which can be set with add-team -p {number}.
If no value is specified, there will be a value randomly assigned when the start-tournament command is used.
Each team with a performance value, will be higher ranked than a team without one.
This value is used to determine the matches in the first round and if all other numbers are equal.
That might not be quite fair, but the chances that it actually plays a role are quite marginal...