ACM Bracket ManagerCIS 598: CS Senior Project

Will Strohmeier

Outline

• Goals• Project Design• Database Design• Demo• Testing Phase• Future Work• Questions

Goals

• Provide the ACM club a way to quickly and easily manage brackets for LAN tournaments. • Do this through a web application that can

be moved to the ksuacmlanparty.info website. • Eliminate the time setting up the bracket

and make progressing through the tournament easier.

Project Design

•Web Technologies• ASP.NET• PHP• Symfony• Actions• Templates• Doctrine• Challonge API

Symfony Action

public function executeMatches(sfWebRequest $request) { $c = new ChallongeAPI(‘555hano…duyh7n'); $id = $request->getParameter('id'); $this->id = $id; $matches = $c->getMatches($id, array()); $this->matches = $matches; }

Symfony Template<tbody id="tableBody" > <?php foreach ($matches as $m) {

if ($m->state == 'open') { ?> <tr> <td><?php echo player_name($id, $m->{'player1-id'}) ?></td> <td>vs</td> <td align="right"><?php echo player_name($id, $m->{'player2-id'}) ?></td> <td align="center"><?php echo get_station($t->id, $m->id) ?></td> </tr> <?php } } ?></tbody>

Doctrine – PHP Object Relational Mapper

schema.yml:Brackets: actAs: {Timestampable: ~} columns: tourney_id: {type: integer} num_stations: {type: integer}

Stations: actAs: {Timestampable: ~} columns: tourney_id: {type: integer} station_num: {type: integer} match_id: {type: integer}

Database Design: Bracket/Stations

Stationstourney_idstation_nummatch_id

Bracketstourney_idnum_stations

1 0-*

Doctrine Queries:$b = new Brackets();$b->setTourney_id($id);$b->setNum_stations(0);$b->save();

Doctrine_Query::create() ->update('brackets b') ->set('b.num_stations', '?', $num) ->where('b.tourney_id = ?', $tid) ->execute();

Doctrine_Query::create() ->delete() ->from('stations s') ->where('s.tourney_id = ?', $id) ->execute();

Demo

Testing Phase:

• Held a test run on April 27th at the console ACM LAN Party. • At the LAN we used the Bracket Manager

for two tournaments• Brawl (45 people)• Naruto (16 people)

Problems:

• No bulk add for participants• No auto refresh on stations page• Better organization of current match list• Sluggish at times• Hard to find people for the match

Added Features

• Bulk add users• Auto refresh Stations page

Future Work

• Account system• Expand Database• fewer API calls• Better ordering of current matches • Text participants when their match is up

Questions?