TourneyBot passes its first live test.

[MadMatt]

As some of you might now, TourneyBot is a tourney director bot. It announces tourneys, registers players, draws match-ups, records the results and announces winners.

Today it passed its first ever live test with a small single elimination tourney (1 pt matches, 3 pt finals). Five people participated (diane, bbennett, rdd, KATO and voodoo_roller) and the winner of first ever TourneyBot FIBS tourney was bbennett, who beat KATO 4-0 in the finals.

Everything went pretty smoothly, a minor bug was discovered, but that will easily be fixed.

I'll now be writing a html page for it (likely URL will be http://tourneybot.rubyforge.org) and then started adding other features that the bot needs.

Drop me a line if you have any questions, comments, suggestions etc. Or if you have a server to host the bot from, that'd be great, too.    It can run on pretty much every platform, though running it 24/7 is still a bit into the future, as there are things that need to be done first (like get permission from Patti).

Cheers,

Matt

[MadMatt]

Replying to myself, just to let you all know I added a new topic for TourneyBot in the Bots section, too. See here: http://www.fibsboard.com/index.php?showtopic=100

[tucsonAZ]

Hey thats great!!

A real time online tournament is really a wonderful event. I remember participating in a couple at www.pogo.com backgammon room. Sign up was at noon on weekends and you literally had to fight for a seat. There were small prizes at the end and many of the losers would watch the rest of the matches. The whole thing would usually last about 3 hours.. An excellent way to pass a lazy weekend afternoon.  If you need a tester or need some infomation regarding a specific client (3dfibs) please drop me a note

maareyes (tucsonAZ on fibs)

[MadMatt]

At some point in time I think some sort of client integration would rock, because I've noticed that a lot of FIBS users are not very computer knowledgable. To them,  FIBS is pretty much the pretty board of their client. A lot don't even know how to send a tell to someone and for them learning how to use the bot is too much of a hassle. Now if their pretty little client intergrates some of the bot's functionality, it would be an entirely different matter altogether.

If TourneyBot ever becomes a permament FIBS feature, I  will definitely be intrested in providing a clip-like protocol for the clients, in case any of the authors would be interested to integrate TourneyBot messages.

In other news, TourneyBot now has a forum of its own here, see here.

Cheers,

Matt