Software for running tournaments

[Skelley]

> I have been searching for free software programs to automate much of the
> paperwork involved with running a game tournament. My search has led to
> two conclusions:
>

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Do you know Christoph Gerlach's McMahon?

http://www.cgerlach.de/macmahon.html

This is a very powerful tool for administrating and pairing tournaments.
Many large international tournaments in Europe are 'run' with this
program.

Skelley

[Ben Finney]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:59:59 +0200, Skelley wrote:
> > I have been searching for free software programs to automate much of
> > the paperwork involved with running a game tournament.
>

> Do you know Christoph Gerlach's McMahon?
> http://www.cgerlach.de/macmahon.html
>
> This is a very powerful tool for administrating and pairing
> tournaments. Many large international tournaments in Europe are
> 'run' with this program.

One of many non-free programs, unfortunately. The author does not make
source code available, and so users are not free to examine, modify and
redistribute the program.

I will be gathering ideas from this and other popular tournament
programs (for Go and other games) to design a free software tournament
assistant.

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