I like the idea. The tricky part is what happens when there are multiple groups assigned to that arena?
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Where’s your tournament at?
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yes I see what you mean - like a pinburgh style round where you have more than one game per round? Thats not something I’ll ever need 
I guess in that situation you either list all the players or none?
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I looked at the code again (it’s hard to keep it all fresh). Because of… reasons progressive strikes tournaments has to build it’s standings by looking at how many games a player has played. When someone is added to a tournament late, it means they’ll always have played the fewest amount of games and as a result they’ll float to the bottom of the standings.
I’ll give it another round of thinking – no good solutions come immediately to mind 
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Wouldn’t normally everyone still in the tournament have the same number of games played? I don’t see how standings are dependent on number of games played except for eliminated players.
If someone is added late they should start with strikes plus virtual/imaginary games where they received those strikes, maybe?
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In progressive strikes people don’t play the same amount of games. If you’re eliminated in round 5 you’ve played 5 games. If you’re eliminated in round 6 you’ve played 6 games.
With progressive strikes you can end up in a situation where a player eliminated in round 5 have fewer strikes than a player eliminated in round 6. So the initial standing has to be number of games played first, followed by number of strikes.
In an ideal world the TD would be able to tell the software how many games a late-arriving player missed, but the system is not setup that way right now and making such a change will be… complicated.
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Yes, I use the MatchPlay API for our streams to do exactly as you describe. (thx Andreas!) I have a webpage in each scene that automatically grabs live player info for that specific table. Been using it in our streams for about a year. I’m hoping to share it soon, it’s a little cobbled together for my particular setup, so I’d have to clean it up for general consumption. (I’m not a web programmer! 
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Mate we’re not precious about perfectly formed POSIX.1 code here
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Folks,
one of my players is trying to register but is getting this message:
what is causing this? he has no email registered at IFPA?
Cheers,
Neil.
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Then I think he needs to register his profile with the ifpa and make sure it’s the same email as the Matchplay one.
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none of the other players (inc me) had to do that?
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Most likely scenario:
When you added the player to your tournament you added a player with an IFPA number (this is the default behavior).
The player (the person, not the database record) has a user account as well, but the IFPA number of the user account is not the same as the IFPA number of the player they’re trying to claim.
Or the user account doesn’t have an IFPA number attached at all.
Have the player click on this link to add their IFPA number: https://matchplay.events/live/users/ifpa
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I’ve tried my best to make things as automatic as possible, but things generally break down if people have had multiple IFPA numbers at some point in the past or if they use different email addresses on IFPA and MP
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Thanks that fixed it.
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Finals format question: If I want eight players, four player groups, top two advance what format do I pick? Single elimination gave me head to head, group match play showed total points instead of finishing order by round.
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I’m pretty sure it would be “Group elimination bracket / PAPA finals”, and then you pick “8 player bracket”.
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Has anyone had an issue adjusting points? I started a finals using 7-5-3-1 and tried to manually adjust them to 4-2-1-0 and MP simply wasn’t having it. Subtracted 3 from first place and MP showed 0. Then added 4 and MP showed 11. I gave up at that point.
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The point adjustment is a single adjustment. Subsequent adjustments are not cumulative, they replace previous adjustment
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