Did you know that the people who run All is Brawl also develop and release
tio tournament organizer,
the gold standard in tournament production software that plays a major
role in every tournament uploaded to AiB? In fact, All is Brawl started
off as nothing more than a simple web server for displaying tio
tournament results. We've obviously grown to much more than that, and
as the website develops so does every tournament host's best friend,
tio.
A few months back we profiled an exciting feature coming to the next release of tio, the
Metrics Calculator.
We're nearing the release of the next tio version and I'm here to give
a few more sneak peeks at other features being added to the program.
Without further ado, here's some information on our
schedule views!
We've
added a "schedule" option to all three of tio's bracket types that
gives tournament organizers a powerful new way to look at their
brackets. Both schedule views provide a linear vertical list of matches
in the bracket; it looks a little like this:
[click to enlarge]
A detailed explanation of the schedule views lies in the full body of this news post (click "continue reading" below!). For the lazy, schedule views give an alternate, possibly easier way to manage
different bracket types. You don't need to know how to navigate a large bracket
structure, you simply need to go down a vertical list of matches to fill in winners. It's a good way to filter out unnecessary information and may help some hosts keep a tighter grip on their brackets.
Continue reading tio sneak peek: Bracket Schedules