Cannot see tourney players without registering

[amarganth]

Hi there

I have a question about the "players"-command of tourneybot. Example:
tourney 772

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Displaying information about Tourney 772:
|772: [bracket] socksey's sexy saturday partaaay tourney (only sexy persons need apply)| |Sat, 19 Jun 04 16:17 UTC| |Directors: socksey| |Status: Signing up!|
TourneyBot says: Min players: 4 Max players: 32 Registered players: 9 (23 spots left)
...
Done displaying information on Tourney 772.


Now, I like to see the players already registered, before I register:
players 772

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You're not registered for socksey's sexy saturday partaaay tourney (only sexy persons need apply) (Tourney #772).


If I'm registered, all works fine and I get a list of the players. Is it necessary to register, to get a list of all players or is it a bug?

In the description of the "players"-command I cannot see restrictions:

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Syntax
tell TourneyBot players <tourney>

Description
Lists all players who've registered to play in the specified tourney


Thanks in advance

Rolf aka amarganth

[diane]

Yes - you need to be registered to see the playerlist - the idea being that your decision to enter is not affected by the people who have already entered.

[burper]

i can see where it might be, but you can always peek and then dropout

[magic_one]

dropout?
How?
Many times, (at least once), my scheduled opponent has informed me that they have dropped.
I've sent messages to director (jinnate) , but to no avail.
See, for example, tourney 427
TIA for the info.

[burper]

On the fibsboard home page http://www.fibsboard.com, there is a TourneyBot link http://tourneybot.fibsboard.com, which has a link to the command reference http://tourneybot.fibsboard.com/reference.html.

In that, the dropout command http://tourneybot.fibsboard.com/tourneyref.html#dropout says that "Currently you can only do this before the tourney's been started."