Tournament Management System

ASSEMBLY 30 sec video

Context

• ASSEMBLY is one of the world largest and most respected demo/lan parties. Partying since 1992 =).

• Party Management System v1.0 built in last year’s Software Development Project

• Successfully used at ASSEMBLY Summer 2008 for managing demoscene competitions (battle tested!)

• Core modules done with C# and Mono framework.

• Web UI done with PHP

Screenshots from PMS

Screenshots from PMS

Extend PMS with Game Tournament Management

• Improving & refactoring an existing, separate tournament system to work on top of PMS

• Functionality includes e.g. setting up tournaments & players, running tournaments, viewing progress and results

• For use by trained admins and general public (set up a game tournament among your friends)

Team requirements

• Experience with PHP and/or C++ / C# / Java

• Preferably experience in developing web applications

• Existing infrastructure & reference implementation makes this at max a ”normal” difficulty project

• Commitment to making it work (yes, rly!)– We actually do use this system in real life ;-)

Off to a flying start

• Existing, working codebase & infrastructure – tested in real life use!

• Existing reference implementation of a game tournament system

• Team members from last year’s Ohjelmatyö project and previous tournament system continue to contribute

• Experienced customer & technical advisors that intimately know the system and want to see it developed further

• Plenty of support from ASSEMBLY staff (e.g. UI design, testing)

• Existing tools (e.g. Trac, mailing lists, servers, testing frameworks)

Cool project

• Be part of the making ASSEMBLY happen

– Computer enthusiasts making the greatest party for other computer enthusiasts

– >200 really cool people to network with

• Contribute to demo/lan party scene

– 100+ parties in Europe. PMS to be released under an open source license

• Beer & Sauna!– Today at Keltsu and more at milestones ;-)

(ASM VIP sauna, after party etc)