Sunday, January 6, 2019

After hosting dozens of prized tournaments, here are my observations & suggestions

Huge Problem:

Volvo pls… Fix autodraw bug. Possibly caused when queuing too fast in a large tournament although one person with autodraw bug reports he waited 2 mins to queue while his opponent did not. Otherwise I have only seen it happen a few times at the very start of a round. Workaround: none, see tournament interface cries for help

Volvo pls… HL3...

Tournament Creation:

Allow us to permaban people from joining tournaments we create

Ready up feature for tournaments. This would really help small groups host larger tournaments.

Allow change of scoring option after tournament phase creation. Also showing scoring method somewhere before tournament start would be nice.

Allow extra admin/caster slots since otherwise you can’t have a 128 person tournament.

Option to punish abandons in your tournament, linked too all other tournaments that choose to punish abandons. This is to limit freerolling in small prized tournaments.

Shareable tournament presets for quickly creating new tournaments and for uniformity in satellite events.

Allow bots to be added to fill in byes. This matters more for tiebreakers, limits getting a bye from being too much of an advantage, prevents getting a bye from being a disadvantage, and gives players something relevant to their tournament run while waiting for other matches in casual tournaments.

Create the option for a set start time where invites automatically close and round start. This could preclude options like tournament seeding.

Tournament Interface:

Allow admins to change scores for a short window and to replay matches. This is important for draft where you can’t just remake. GOTO Huge Problem

Player perspective observing. This would greatly improve the viewer experience.

Allow new admins and spectators to join after invites close.

Popup info on game status when you mouse over a match so spectators know what games are just starting or finishing and so players know about how long they have until their next match. Even just a timer would be great.

Autoland the bracket viewer zoomed all the way out or where you were last viewing when switching to that tab.

Create a condensed view of bracket option that scrolls from left to right so it is possible to see the top 16 or so in a single, legible screen.

Display very basic tournament stats. Player count would be a nice start.

Allow use to choose which side of the board is at the bottom when spectating a game. It could be when you right click a name to spectate it makes that person the person on the bottom.

Steam Chat:

Fix spoiler boxes in Steam chat. You can tell who won by the length of the name of the person winning 80% of the time. A solution would be to spoiler the announcement of a match finishing, with the winner in bold or loser in strikeout.

Autojoin people who are directly invited via friends into tournament lobby chat. Tournament lobby chat tends to be where all the important information is posted and from what I can tell many people do not open lobby chat.

-Opsy

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