Tournament Wish List (TOP Tournament)

Here are the ideas I have that might be beyond what you will develop for us, but maybe not. :)

Some items may be too specialized for TOP that make it unfeasible to ask for as a requirement.

1) Automated pairings: If we register members as being signed up for an event, they should be automatically grouped together randomly for first round assignments. Then automated bracketing can track who advances to the next round, and such brackets can be seen on the web by any player. We have special rules though... we allow a player to sub if a player leaves, loses connection more than 5 minutes or quits. This sub may have already played or could be standing by in the lobby. Sometimes a player who qualifies to advance leaves, and we replace that player as well. We also have a system of wilds as sometimes we have 6-7 first round tables taking 2-4 semifinal tables and these wilds are determined by a rule we have how to determine that. Those wilds also advance to the next round. We don't like to have two players who played each other in the first round play again in the semifinals together. (Now you see why this might be too specialized to code).

2) Automated Leaderboard. Game results are used to calculate leaderboard points. This leaderboard is reset at the beginning of each month. Winners get 5 pts, and all other places get 2 pts. if a player leaves for any reason other than quitting, they get the points their seat finished at with a sub (they get 0 if they quit and possibly banned for a period of time). If a player subs, they also get the points for that seat plus 1 point for subbing (maximum 5 points per round). if a player played in a round and subbed for someone else, they get the larger of the points earned from either game, plus 1 point, but maximum 5 points for any round. The top 16 on our leaderboard play in our end-of-month championship, which has different point rules that don't count towards the leaderboard but just for the championship game. Our end-of-year championship also follows a format like end-of-month.