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We’re very excited to release one of the most asked feature on Toornament: Participant Match Reporting!
Allowing your participants to report their own match results will save you loads of time. And because you know us, we didn’t just deliver the basic tool but came up with additional features! Here they are.
We’re happy to announce our new Facebook Page, “Toornament eSports”
Yes, it’s 2016 and we’re launching a Facebook page. But make no mistake, this is not just your regular fanpage!
We thought our Facebook page as an eSports calendar embedded right into your Facebook timeline. As many people use the famous social network to manage their calendar, we thought it’d be cool for them to track eSports tournaments too.
Just “Like” our page and participate in our events to be notified of all the major eSports tournaments around the world.
Our Facebook page is a nice sidekick to our main website and mobile app to discover and follow eSports tournaments everyday, from everywhere.
We’re happy to announce that our maximum participants size has been buffed from 128 to 256! We released this feature for some of our partners like Gamers Assembly and Dreamhack a few weeks back and now, we’re rolling it out for everyone!
This upgrade is the visible part of a deeper change in our architecture approach. Good news is the only change that you’ll experience when generating a toornament is that the process will occur in the background for a few seconds, depending on your tournament size.
You may thus see new messages like these ones:
Note that triple-phase structures (i.e. groups + groups + bracket) are still maxed at 128 participants while League format goes up to 32 participants.
As we said before, this new upper limit is the first step to a larger infrastructure overhaul which aims to raise the bar even higher.
And when we say “higher”, we mean it: in the next months, Toornament will be able to
handle up to 4096 participants! Do you hear us, EVO?
Yet, “With great powers comes great responsibility”: This huge amount of participants also raises UI challenges. We’ve already shown you how large is a 128 participants bracket. A 4000+ one – or even 1000+ – would lead to an uber-heavy, hard to navigate webpage.
Until then, we’ll work on smooth an natural visualizations designed with these gigantic structures in mind. We’ll keep you in touch, as always. In the meantime, enjoy your 256 participants tournaments!
We’ve just released a new iteration of our mobile app “Toornament eSports” (free on iOS and Android), featuring major new features and small fixes.
This new section displays the following content:
This new approach mixes manual picks from the user side and automated picks from our app, making it easier to follow and discover Esport events.
The Match ticker UI helps you find a match the easy way, using two navigation timelines. The horizontal timeline lets you browse past, current and future tournaments. The vertical navigation timeline on the right focuses on the chosen day and features blue highlights on the hour a match occurs.
You often come across the Match Block in our app. Well, it’s been redesigned for a better visual integration with the different parts of the app it appears in – which means quite everywhere!
The new Match Block boasts two new icons: VOD and Stats. The first one indicates whether a video from the match is available. The second one is an incoming feature which will display stats from enabled games (Dota2, LoL, Blood Bowl etc.)
We’ve replaced the “Favorite” function with the “Following” one. You can follow:
Add a game or tournament and they’ll join your Following tab.
Participants profiles have been enriched and now display all their information, including public custom fields in a new “Info” tab.
We’ve also adjusted the font sizes and made some wording corrections, giving the app a more professional look and feel. And of course, loads of bugs were smashed along the way!
We hope you’ll enjoy this new version of Toornament eSports mobile app, Get it for free on your smartphones:
Here’s a follow-up from our Tournament Page redesign introduced last week. As anounced, we’re replacing the widget with a dedicated content in each tab, starting today with the “Information” tab.
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Also notice the Sharing options available at the bottom of each tab feature popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter or VKontakte and our well-known widget, Toornament TV and Mobile App.
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The other tabs will benefit from the redesign in a couple of weeks. This work in progress shows you how we know implement in an incremental way new features and redesigns.