2024 - Year In Review

Number of Events : 199
Countries Represented : 29
Exchanges Recorded: 332,903
Matches Fought: 42,580
Tournaments Created: 654
Tournament Entries: 14,574
Event Registrations: 9,234
Unique Participants: 5,085
Clubs Represented: 794
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Warning!

This information is what event organizers & match table staff have entered into the database. It's accuracy/reliability will reflect their commitment to data integrity. Tournament registrations may be slightly inflated for some events if the organizer did not remove fighters dropping prior to the tournament, etc.
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Close matches are matches where a fighter won by only a single point, and the lowest score was higher than 3 points.
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Shutout matches are matches where a fighter scored 4 or more points, and their opponent scored none.
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Software Improvements/Features in 2024
(Not included: minor tweaks, back-end changes, or things I forgot I added.)

January

  • Improved sortability/data integrity feaures on school management page.
  • Converted Event Instructor Bios to WYSISYG instead of flat html.
  • Improved options for considering a 'white card' as a prior penalty or not.
  • Added option to show who has priority based on the last exchange.

February

  • Added an "Other" option for tournament check in. This can be used if there is anything else an event organizer wants to denote about a tournament's participants. The tournament options also allow for the name to display with an asterix if "Other" is selcted on that fighter.
  • Added ability to manually sort tournament locations, instead of the default alphabetical sorting.
  • Added FAQ feature, which will show up as a separate menu item if questions are populated by the event organizer.
  • Added new page to see the full staff schedule.
  • Added new page to see all tournaments that have been run, and filter by weapon.
  • Added support for running a continuous clock when using the grid-score input mode.

April

  • Go go April Fools Character Class page!
  • Added new utility for helping to combine duplicate fighters (since people kept finding them looking for their character class)
  • Added "Soft Cap" option for match length.
  • Brackets can now auto-seed based on fighter ratings, with no pool matches necessary to seed.
  • Misc fixes to the interface for adding people to teams.

June

  • Able to perma-link to rings when doing livestream links.
  • Quality of life improvements to creating new pools.

July

  • Quality of life improvements for software managers.

August

  • Ability to see, and search by, the underlying math for pool ranking algorithms.
  • Ability to see the hit breakdowns of all fighters in a tournament using the Fighter Summary page.

September

  • Show the team roster on mouseover of the team name.
  • Allow events to publish FAQs for their event information.

October

  • Basic support for prompting judges on penalty escalations. Not yet modular for different rules.
  • "On Deck" matches added to the match score window.
  • The match score window facing the participants is now mirrored from the table (so they both have the colors on the correct sides.)
  • Added a new page to show how many people were staffing each match in each tournament.

November

  • MOF style team tournaments (and match order) are now supported.
  • Rework Event Description page to break sections into tabs
  • Add support for double elim bracket helper on odd-sized brackets.

December

  • Double Elimination brackets can now be created with completely independent upper and lower sizes. (Lower can be bigger than the upper.
  • Reworked the stats annual summary with new stats, and to break up the loading time.
  • New match orders for pools. Also pools of up to 30 are supported.
  • Able to specify separate point caps for brackets and finals.
  • Option to limit the last exchange in a tournament from overflowing the max score.
  • Button to auto-assign all pools to a ring.
  • Tatami mat calculator.

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