VEX Tournament Manager
From VEX Wiki
Introduction
The VEX Tournament Manager is a custom software package designed to simplify and automate many of the tasks associated with running a VEX Robotics tournament. The program is flexible and modular and designed to work for small, local tournaments as well as large, international competitions and everything in between. Some of the main features of the Tournament Manager software are:
- Create practice and qualification match schedules based on a team list
- Run matches with automatic enabling and disabling of team robots for accurate match timing
- Enter and calculate match scores
- Team rankings are automatically determined based on qualification match scores
- Conduct an alliance selection process where a selected number of top-ranked teams can choose partners to compete in an elimination tournament
- Hold an elimination tournament with up to 16 alliances made up of 1 to 3 teams each
- Bye rounds are automatically used if necessary for the highest-ranked alliances
- Alliances are automatically advanced to the next round of play after winning 2 matches
- Publish match results to the web (including Twitter)
- Display information such as rankings, match time clock, schedules, and match scores to team members and spectators during the event
- Keep track of awards given to teams and display the name of the winner to spectators
It is important to note that many of the features listed are not required to run an event. Many tournament configurations may not use all of the available features, depending on equipment availability, volunteers, and the overall event experience that is desired.
Much more information is available in the User Guide below.
New User Guide
Tournament Manager User Guide (updated Oct. 30)
Older Tournament Manager User Guide
The link below contains an older version of the User Guide, however there is valuable information located there that is still being incorporated into the updated User Guide. If you have questions that the new User Guide does not answer, you may find some more information at the link below.
