As some of you have probably seen, I’ve been working on some tools to make it easier to run tournaments over the forums.
Current Features
Send match invite threads for double-elim tournaments on Challonge
Host the Ranked tournament
*new* Add matches to the Yomi Tournament Calendar.
In your match thread, you can type AutoTO: Schedule @ <your date here>, and then my scripts will pick it up the next time I run them. If you post more than once, it’ll pick up the most recently updated date.
Future Features
Send match invite threads for round-robin tournaments on Challonge
If you’re interested in seeing what’s under the hood, check out GitHub - cpennington/yomi-auto-to. If you want to use it for your own tournaments, let me know, and I’ll try and get some documentation written up for it.
What format(s) should the date be in for Auto-TO to understand it? I assume it can also recognize times with the right formatting? I’d suggest having instructions for how to do that be part of the automated scheduling PMs so that people don’t have to return to this topic to see how it works, if that’s not too much hassle to add it.
For more clarification on the date formatting: AutoTO should be able to understand international date formats, but if it’s ambiguous (3/4/19) it’ll default to the American convention. It should also understand YYYY-MM-DD, if you want to make sure to avoid ambiguity. It understands EST/EDT as being the same thing (which is, whatever the daylight savings time status is on the date in question). It doesn’t understand GMT+2 yet (it misunderstands it as GMT-2). However, you can specify any timezone offset by using +0200 or -0400 (or the like).