Dumping Archon, creating a new tournament guiding app?

brandonsantacruz wrote:

Thank you for bringing this up. One of my main frustrations as an organizer has been difficulty in getting Archon to work when I need it to. This lead to my using paper cards, which has been superior in reliability up until the time I need to report the results.

This sounds like a quicker answer in the short-term would be a tutorial of some sort showing you how to use Archon. Are there some things you can do, but specific tasks you're trying to do with Archon that you can't do so you end up abandoning it altogether? Or do you have trouble doing anything in it at all?

Archon is very easy to manage. i never knowed how be calculated points in VTES tourneys until i organize first tourney via lackey. nobody learn me,i read how work and use to test with some example and learn easy.

jamesatzephyr wrote:

brandonsantacruz wrote:

Thank you for bringing this up. One of my main frustrations as an organizer has been difficulty in getting Archon to work when I need it to. This lead to my using paper cards, which has been superior in reliability up until the time I need to report the results.

This sounds like a quicker answer in the short-term would be a tutorial of some sort showing you how to use Archon. Are there some things you can do, but specific tasks you're trying to do with Archon that you can't do so you end up abandoning it altogether? Or do you have trouble doing anything in it at all?

In my experience it doesn't work well on my chromebook and gets wigged out. It has been a few years, sorry I can't be more specific.

Sambomb wrote:

Amaranth already have a randomize seating for multiple players ready, works on iOS, Android and web.

I like the idea of Archon like functionality in Amaranth; however there are a couple of issues with this:

1. The Archon is currently a very complex XL spreadsheet
2. The rating system currently only supports this XL spreadsheet

Replicating the behaviour of the Archon in an app is reasonably straight forward; replicating the generated spreadsheet afterwards to upload is much more complex.

So until the rating system supports a less complex format, ie. CSV, JSON or similar with a suitable API for the results; then it's unlikely any 3rd party app will support it.

What will it take to make an API available for apps to upload tournament results? — I suspect this will be a lot easier than the development that was required to process XLS documents.

A mobile friendly web App would be really cool. This way I can do it in my phone or tablet and do not habe to bring my laptop to tournaments.
The app could be made with PHP, HTML and some JavaScript or other web technology so you'll just need a Browser to operate it.
There an be a menu entry for table randomizing and vp assignment, a gamewin and tournament win calculator, a function for players to upload their decklists as CSV before a specific tournament so the princes have the decklists ready should the need arise to check the decks of the players and many more functions.
But without knowing the Database structure it would be hard to estimate the workload.