Ystok-Tournament

Ystok-Tournament is an application program for computer-aided sporting events in tennis, squash, or badminton.

On the contrary to "ordinary" spreadsheet forms (for example, MS Excel), the program automates a great deal of routine tasks while planning and running the event. The system assists in the following activities:

• Maintain membership database of players.
• Filter, sort, and search for players by name, age, residence, club, and so on; enter additional information about tournament entries.
• Compose events in the age categories adults, juniors, and veterans.
• Check personal and availability information, control over the fee paid.
• Seed players, randomly assign line numbers and byes in order to fill out the tournament draw.
• Prepare main, qualifying, and consolation draws.
• Schedule matches taking court availability into account.
• Track results.

The following draw schemes are implemented:

• Qualifying draw — knockout and round-robin (the number of sections is unlimited).
• Main draw — knockout and round-robin.
• Consolation draw — independent knockout, knockout, double feed-in (double elimination), continuous feed-in, independent round-robin.

Owing to intuitive graphical interface, entering results becomes a real pleasure. For example, advancing the winner of a match to the next round can be performed by means of a mouse double-click or one keyboard key press.

Printing and reporting

Ranking module

With this optional module, a federation or sports club can easily maintain player rankings. The ranking lists are based on the player database and stratify all the registered players into groups by gender and age. For every player, a ranking file stores rate in singles and doubles, points in singles and doubles, and other activity and history information.

On commencing a tournament, the program helps in copying the rate and points numbers into the entry list. These figures are used later for seeding and randomizing.

On ending the tournament, the rankings can be easily updated by a single menu command. Several methods of allocating and dropping ranking points are built-in. Allocation methods:

• according to the number of rounds passed,
• according to the number of matches won.

Drop methods:

• last 52 weeks (permanent decay weekly similar to WTA and ATP),
• full decay yearly (similar to the ATP championship race),
• half-decay (used by Russian Tennis Veterans League).

The module calculates points in doubles separately from points in singles.

Portal module

This optional module helps you to populate your Web-site. The module exploits the HTML-Template technology and allows tournament information to be seamlessly integrated with an arbitrary site design. In the Tournament Settings dialog, your can customize the following parameters:

• style sheet (file in CSS2 format),
• tournament start page template,
• entry list template,
• timetable template.

The program can publish several files (in HTML, PDF, or another format) with a single menu command. Uploading is implemented by means of FTP.

Coupled with the ranking module, the portal option equips Ystok-Tournament with these useful features:

• publishing player ranking and alphabetical lists from database,
• displaying player brief biography, best results, personal metrics, and the like,
• providing the details and audit of rank and points.

System requirements

• Pentium-166, 64MB RAM, 12MB on hard drive.
• Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista.
• PDF viewer.
• Optional Internet connection (online connection is neither needed for installation, nor the main program, nor the ranking module).

Demo-version

The demo-version of Ystok-Tournament is available from this page.

Presentation slides

Presentation slides are here.