Doubt about OpenGotha Tournaments

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Custom OGS Online Leagues for outside organisations

Hi All, Mostly a kind of FYI: OGS now has a “capability” to support outside organisations running an “online league” here. It is a bit “niche” - it supports organisations that want to run the games of their tournaments at OGS, and have OGS keep track of the league-ratings of their members, but they take care of “the tournament rules” and who-plays-who. The NAGF (which is a collaboration of AGA (American Go Association) and CGA (Canadian Go Association)) is using it to run it’s “Online League”…

This would probably be the feature to use, it’s just in development to make it accessible to use

Rumination on Tournament Systems

I’m pondering a revamp of OGS Tournament system. I’m at the early stages of thinking about “so what really does this have to do”. I have a goal of making it easy for third parties to supply “tournament rules” (I envision via an API). The most basic question I have right now is “are tournaments always in rounds?” Is a tournament fundamentally: Pair players (according to rules) Noting that players can be paired more than once, eg round robin) Run games Decide if it’s over (according to r…