I ran a tournament with Mantis this weekend, and would recommend it.I had tried both Challonge! And Mantis in advance, and decided that there was too much fiddling about required with Challonge! To get the scores right. Meanwhile the Mantis solution allows you do to do all the match-point and prestige calculation yourself, and just enter the number. Unless we get a tool that does allof the match point and prestige point calculations for us, I think I prefer Mantis.What I did (for redundancy, and for the match-point problem stated above) was to produce a tracking sheet for each player. Each player used that sheet to record their opponent and game stats for each round. On that sheet, I noted the match and prestige points for each player for each round, so if I ever did need to use to match points, the information was there.I did find one problem, and one watch-out:Problem: Mantis doesn't seem to allow for a draw; every match is either a win or a loss for each player.
This will be a 4 round swiss style tournament (subject to change as we have more sign up). 2 wins will advance you to the single elimination stage. Swiss pairings will not be done by Challonge, since they are bad at pairing things. Instead I will be using Mantis Tournament Software to pair the swiss rounds. This is just a sign-up page basically.
There is an option to record a match as a 'double loss,' a loss for each player. Ultimately I don't think this matters, as long as you have it do the pairings based upon the prestige rankings, but it is a problem for producing an accurate permanent record of performance.Watch-out: If you choose to close a tournament (Tournament Close), which would seem to be a natural thing to do at the end, you will subsequently freak out because you think you've lost all the data. The answer is not in any of the the menus on the menu bar; instead, go over to the 'Archive' tab, select your tournament, and click on 'View' or 'Reopen'.
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The MD5 Message Digest Algorithm is an algorithm invented by Professor Ronald L. Rivest of MIT. One of the features is taking a sequence of bytes in a disk file and produce a “digital signature”, or what can be sometimes called a “digest” or “hash”. This algorithm is designed so that the probability of any two files having the same digital signature is practically zero, so if a file is changed even by one byte then the digital signature will also change.In 2007, CDE Software began implementing MD5 digital signature with files uploaded to our website. This signature is taken as soon as an installer is created by our build machines. During the upload process, the signature will be provided in the on our product download details page.What does that mean for you?This helps provide an extra layer of security to help assure that the files on our website came from CDE Software’s build machines and has not been touched or modified by any person or process.There are times that a download from our website to your computer may fail due to lost connections by your ISP.
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