[Android] XenTorneo Buddy for Tournament Organizers

[Jaxel]

XenTorneo Buddy (XTB) is designed to work in conjunction with tournament organizers who use third-party APIs to run their tournaments such as Challonge.com. (Smash.gg and TournamentEdition.com support planned for the future when they publish their API)

XTB works as a mobile satellite app that allows you to sign-up and edit players for a tournament, as well as report results and scores for matches in progress. It is not designed to be a stand-alone system for running tournaments. Basically the head TO sets up the tournament in advance, and gives proper permissions to his/her team of sub-TOs (runners). Then the runners can use the app to register players for the tournament using the app as they walk around the venue. After the tournament has begun, runners can also use the app to quickly report match results and scores.

But you may be asking... why use the app, when you can already do all that with the websites for said third-party APIs? The difference is, XTB gives you additional access to register players and link them to their forum user IDs on forums which use the XenTorneo Ranking system (such as 8wayrun.com and Smashboards.com). By registering a player with their user ID, it guarantees that player will get credit for their performance at that event when it's submitted to the ranking system.

This alleviates extra work for the TOs after the tournament, and it establishes a sense of confidence in the ranking systems.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.x8wayrun.xentorneobuddy

 

[Jaxel]

Patch Notes:

 

[Jaxel]

Version 1.0.2 is adding Cellphone SMS support!

Phone Numbers linked to Forum IDs are stored locally on your cellphone, not on Smashboards. When you add a player to a tournament, and have a cellphone entered for that player, the cellphone and their forum ID will be stored to your phone's local database (only if the user has a forum ID, otherwise it wont be saved for future tournaments).

When you scan a QR code for a player, it will check the database for a phone number matching that user's forum ID. If it finds it, it will automatically fetch the phone number from your phone's local database. This way you wont have to ask people for their numbers every week.

Remember, you can scan a player's QR code after you've already added them to the tournament using the ID link on the forum ranking system here on Smashboards. Using this, you can force a database check for someone's phone number.

 

[Jaxel]

Just submitted an update!

In 1.0.5, you will be able to create and edit tournament details right from within the app.

 

[Jaxel]

New version 1.0.6 now supports Nougat Split Screen.