I believe Flip Frenzy sorts by Arena name. I think that would also be a good fit for random/balanced match play pairings. Or at least a good option to include if you choose to make it configurable.
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I was thinking something like sort by:
- Creation order (what’s there today)
- Arena name
- Status (no arena, followed by in progress, followed by completed)
- Duration (games that’s been going the longest first)
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For status, I’d suggest that the following order would be more helpful:
- In progress;
- No arena; then
- Completed.
If you’re entering results, it’s less helpful having the in progress matches in the middle.
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Brackelope sorted by ‘most recently assigned’ and the the no-arena items that just got drawn are at the top. So using your new clock that would mean sorting by lowest clock (for the unfinished games).
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Can we have scorekeepers for the elimination brackets?
I logged in as the TD so I could follow a few of the groups and get the results in to speed things up.
Would be good to be able to have scorekeepers instead
@DaveTheTrain I’ve enabled scorekeepers for head-to-head brackets. Please tell me if it works. I don’t remember why I disabled that originally, but since scorekeepers are available for double elimination brackets that use the same system every should work…
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All: for the awesome new player labels feature, for Division restrictions based on IFPA Rank… when you click on the “Update IFPA Seeds” button, it does NOT update the players’ labels based on the IFPA rank parameters you set previously.
To get the Labels to refresh, you have to re-do the “Set rank labels” button and process.
@haugstrup I’m not sure if there’s an easy code solution that would provide for a refresh/re-labeling of players – based on prior Label rank parameters – as part of the procedure called by the “Update IFPA Seeds” button?
I noticed that during a target match play tournament with Swiss pairings, the three player games were always assigned to the bottom player groups.
Once the labels have been set there’s no connection back to an IFPA rank. I have added a notice when you update IFPA seeding and you’re using player labels. It’s the best I can do:
Generally I’d wait to apply the labels until your IFPA rankings are set so you don’t have to go through the process multiple times.
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Event listing feature available today! Event listings are landing pages for your larger pinball events. With a an event listing, you won’t have to create a website or Facebook event for your weekend of tournaments. Event listings link directly to the tournaments and can be customized with a description, links to your stream or ticket provider, a banner image and more. You can even link up tournaments organized outside of Match Play (like DTM tournaments).
Full documentation is in the handbook: https://docs.matchplay.events/additional-features/event-listings
And so you can see it in action Michael Mattsson was kind enough to create the very first listing for Seaside Champ (tournament list not finalized, but you get the point): https://next.matchplay.events/events/1
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I ran a Max Match Play tourney this weekend with a head-to-head single elimination bracket playoff (best 2 of 3). I was a bit perplexed that I could not assign arenas to these matches or the MP entry itself. Is this another case of not looking in the right places?
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Nah, I straight up don’t have a spot in the database to put arena information for the best-of-x results
Ok, good I wasn’t just making this up. I’ll a bring pencil and paper next time (we’re making this a quarterly thing + a Seaside Sideshow). It’s a sort of weird bracket format, the games are predetermined based on the play time from qualifying (and thanks for adding sorting to the arena stats). It would be good to give the game information to the players in MP.
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I’m getting ready to use double elimination for the first time to run our league finals and I came here with the same question. I’m sorry it’s not possible because it would be very helpful for us. We have a rule that a game can only be chosen once during the tournament, and last season someone chose the same game twice and it wasn’t found out until after the tournament and there would have been no way for the affected player to be aware of it at the time because there wasn’t a way to easily see what games had already been chosen. I was hoping Matchplay would have a way to record that so it’s public information that anyone can consult during the chaos of the tournament so that doesn’t go under the radar again… but, I guess I’ll have to find some other way or just hope it doesn’t happen again.
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I very much want to support this feature, but it requires a more invasive restructuring of how data for these games are stored in the database. So the time investment is a little out of the ordinary and I end up doing other stuff instead
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An ad-hoc free form field perhaps?
ALTER TABLE best-of-x
ADD note varchar(255);
Done deal!
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Spoken like a true big data expert 
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Is there a way in matchplay to see the entire data of game times over all hosted tournaments at a location.
Like maybe a titles average time
I would like to be able to see the average time of each arena over a defined set of dates.
Thanks,
Mark H
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here’s an example of one of our tournaments