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Playoday is a web application that helps you create and manage sport tournaments. (or any other group event where a quantifiable one on one competition is all that matters for the final ranking)

The tournament owner (varies from CEO to John Doe) signs up at playoday.com and creates a tournament by providing a name and a short description. After that he shall choose the tournament type, by selecting the matchup algorithm and the ranking system (aka the extermination system). The total rounds are predecided and may or maynot rely on the tournament type. When each round is finished (all pairs have submited their scores), the organizer closes that round and either starts a new one. If we were at the final round of the tournament and the winner playoday notifies the users that the game is over and declares the winner.

At the moment there are two available tournament types:

1. Classic single game knockout cup.

* Players are matched up in pairs.
* The winner proceeds to the next round.
* The loser just feels great for playing.
* The advantages of that game type are the fact that it benefits weak players
and that it ends quickly (best for large player groups).

1. Swedish.

* Players are matched up in pairs.
* Both players proceed to the next round but with different score.
* Based on that score the next round matchup is calculated, where winners
tend to play with each other.
* The winner is the player with the greatest score after the last round
* That game type lasts longer than a standard knockout cup, and doesn't
benefit weak players
* the main advantage of that game type is that after 2-3 rounds the players
that matchup together are of comparable skill.

At each round, before the game is played players are allowed to a rasonable amount of trashtalk in order to build up the anxiety of the game. After the game the players submit the results to the game page.

A tournament can end in two ways:

• when a predefined round’s count is reached (swedish)

• when there is only one left in a knockout

Then a winner is declared.

Nemlah performed evil UX trickery and devilish CSS hacks. He is responsible for the site not looking like the drawing of a five year old. He also rocked the decks during this 48 hour rumble.

Follow: www.twitter.com/nemlah

Mike danced the CanCan, devised the Devise and generally he holds the key to every locked door in playoday. If you signup and start a tournament you need to thank him.

Follow: www.twitter.com/mikezaby

Stratos modeled the shit out of everything and was brave enought to start writing this README in the first place. He also the reason we can deploy with Capistrano. He is also responsible for keeping the temperature of the room low.

Follow: www.twitter.com/xlembouras

Nothing special except from holding the camera and not letting anyone do his job. I’m also responsible for any UX crime you might notice on playoday.com. Sorry :)

Follow: www.twitter.com/banditaras