Tournament Module

I recently did something conceptually similar, where I had parent and children nodes and wanted to keep them related easily. The path I took was to create a vocabulary for linking parents and children and remembering that vocab ID with a variable. The taxonomy field is removed from the parent node creation form, though. When a new parent node is saved, a new taxonomy term with the same name as that node is programmatically created, and the parent node is assigned to it. That way, when children nodes are created, they'll see terms corresponding to all of the parent nodes in its taxonomy select field, and can easily be linked to one or more parents that way.

Hope that makes sense…

I'm also interested in a module of this type. For me it was important for multiple types of sport (e.g. Soccer, Kart Racing,...), so it had to deal with a lot of different types of data and data manipulation. So I thought of a database based structure for saving and deriving data.
My thoughts have a lot to do with deriving and evaluating data, giving the opportunity to extend functionality with custom rules and datatypes. So I would use CCK as input for data and Views as output for results and ladders.
What I have in mind is a really big module with (at my current plans) 10 database tables, cck and views 2 integration. It was a big framework for Tournament and Championship handling. But this plan only exists on paper and isn't realized in parts of code.

If you are interested in a big project, this was a great challenge ;)

If you like more information about my plans, just ask for it. But for the moment I've to got to bed ;)

Morbus & I have been developing an engine for a similar system, 5 Second Game. Might want to have a look.

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My thoughts were mainly bout managing the data input, building result data and additional information.

My main items were:

• Championship
  • A set of events, with championship specific rules for charts and single event results
  • identified by CHid
• Competition
  • A single event, can be assigned to a championship. Can have its own rules.
  • identified by CNid
• Competitor
  • Competitor is a abstract element and can either be a human person or a team - depends on the matter of details
  • a competitor can be assigned to multiple teams and multiple groups
  • identified by CRid for a single event, identified/profiled by nodeID
• Competitor Data
  • a set of data describing the competitors performance
  • e.g. scored goals and given penalties (e.g. "Competitor XY headed goal in minute 34")
  • identified by CNid, CRid and offset
• Team
  • a team wich participates in the actual event
  • does not perform actions itself/does not have competition data
  • results for a team are only generated/derived via the competition data of the competitors
  • e.g. player X of team C scored in min 34, player Y of team C scored in min 75 => 2 goals for team C
  • identified by CTid, identification for profile can be set by nodeid or teamname
  • extra db-table for assigning CRid to C
• Classification
  • competitors can be assigned to different Classifications, like Vehicle-Type in racing or age-groupings in youth sport
  • identified by CCid
• Rules
  • serilialized functions (php-functions, mysql-functions, sorting functions) that manage different aspects of deriving information
  • use data of championship, competition, competitor, teams, classification, and specially Competition Data to derive information, that is used to generate result and statistics
  • different types: data for competitor or team in single event or championship (single result chart => team championship standings)
• Derived Data
  • derived data for competitors and teams by rules
  • this data will be used to list results

This is more a result managing system than a tournament system.

I've in mind to use especially CCK and Views to

• CCK: different fields to enter competitors' data
• Views: presenting results

I'd like to know if this was a roject you would take participation in.

Hi everybody,

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