New Seeding - And more!

BinaryBeast

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November 25 2010 03:17 GMT

It's continually getting harder for BinaryBeast to be more awesome

Another installment of updates that add some functionality to managing tournaments have recently been added, and I think a lot of people will be happy to hear that these updates include some automatic seeding based on rank.

SEEDING

Here's the new set of options available when starting your brackets, we've added two new seeding options. Balanced, and Sports - you can read their descriptions in the following picture

Upon selecting a seeding method other than "Random" you will then see a page looking similar to this, where you can drag and drop players to move them to the correct position. For this example, I chose to use the Balanced seeding method.

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You can find the results of a Balanced 32 player tournament here: http://binarybeast.com/xBW1011191

PERMISSIONS

Along with the new seeding options, we've given tournament organizers the option to share the ability to modify the tournament with other BinaryBeast uers.

From the admin drop-down, simply select Manage Permissions.

Here you can see the default permission settings:

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To add a specific user and share the ability to modify the tour, simply click the "Add permissions to a BinaryBeast user" link

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You'll have to use the e-mail address with which that user registered in order to add them to the permissions list. Once added, you'll be able to adjust the settings for that given user.

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REPLAYS
Everybody loves a good replay of epic awesomeness - so naturally, being the cool dudes that we are, we included some replay functionality in our site of epic awesomeness

When creating a tournament (And modifying tournament settings later) you can set the options for replays. The below screenshot includes descriptions of what each setting does

One setting worth pointing out: Replay Download only on "Post-Complete." This is really nice if you make replay uploads mandatory. It prevents anyone from "cheating" by downloading and watching opponent's matches if they have a few minutes to spare between rounds.

When reporting a match, each game will have its own replay file selection - it's obvious what to do here

Downloading replays can be done a number of ways. If you want only the replays for a specific match, you can click the "View Details" button for said match and use the replay download in the pop-up dialog. If you're like me and want to watch every single game from every single match, you can use the download button that appears in the top right menu

Each replay pack is spoiler free. Everything is organized in a tree of subfolders. Empty folders are generated in each match to hide the number of games that actually took place so you can follow the tournament as a spectator and still get all of the surprises.

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