We noticed in our Flip Frenzy tournament that the arena selection algorithm didn't seem to take into account frequency of play for both the players and the whole tournament in general. Some arenas got chosen much more than others and some players frequently got assigned the same arenas they've played before when there were other arenas available that they haven't played. We'd like to see an attempt to spread out the matches as evenly as possible across all the available arenas (we have many more arenas available than we have matches) and we'd like to see an attempt to avoid having players repeat play on the same machines as much as possible.

For Flip Frenzy tournaments where the number of available arenas for play is greater than the number of matches, automatically select the next match from the pool of available arenas.

It seems the way it works now, is to lock in the number of arenas in play at the beginning of the tournament based on the number of participants and the size of the queue. Arenas can be added from the unused part of the pool when there are arena malfunctions, and that's fine. However, it you just try to activate an arena from the unused pool after the tournament starts, it will decrease the size of the queue. I have 80 arenas and probably at most 25 matches in play at a given time (assuming 75 participants with a queue size of 20%). When a match finishes and the next person comes off the queue and an arena is chosen for the match, I'd like it to come out of the pool of 80 available machines, not the 25 that were randomly chosen at the beginning of the tournament. I understand as arenas malfunction, that will decrease the pool of arenas available to play.

For Flip Frenzy tournaments, when there is an arena malfunction, instead of only allowing the players to be moved to the queue, offer the option of choosing another available arena. The current default behavior seems to be for a situation where there are a fixed number of arenas. For our location we have many more available arenas than current matches in play, so we would like to immediately assign the players on the malfunctioned arena to an available machine and not put them in the queue. In fact, the way malfunctions are currently handled makes the players wait on the queue until the next match finishes and as a side effect and needlessly grows the depth of the queue.

There are various instances where it's handy for the TD to get a random arena that isn't tied to a specific match, typically as a ranking match. In my case, we've needed it for a 3rd/4th ranking match, a tie breaker for our "Top Rookie" award, and a tie breaker for our "First Place (Women's)" award.

I'd like to see a button in Arenas or Rounds that draws an arena and displays it in a popup. Maybe a refresh/redraw button in that popup. In my case, just drawing from all active arenas, even if they're in-use for the current round, would be perfectly acceptable.

It was extremely time consuming but I was able to use Matchplay to run a CH recently so that our Twitch streamer could utilize your app's great metadata. I'd like to eventually see Matchplay get full support for this growing format.

► Allow TDs to make Arena and Player changes before publishing matches

TDs may need to place players in a group before matches are drawn. This happens with cards like Foresight, which allows the player to choose a group before seeing the draw. Alternatively, allow the TD to make changes to players/groups after the draw w/o publishing the match. Currently, when a pre-round card is played, I need to turn off the monitor the Big Screen View is on (to hide the manual changes I need to make), draw the match, exchange the player with a random player of the group chosen, then turn the monitor back on.

► Decrease refresh time of Big Screen View

I have to refresh the page manually each time I modify Arenas, move players, and shift order. As cards are being thrown, there are just too many adjustments being made each round for a player to wait to see the change and decide if they want to throw another card. Maybe 10 seconds for CH format?

I'm not familiar with every nuance (nor the new "group matchplay" version of CH) so please feel free to add to this.

I am interested in a seeing a tournament type that support a "Flip Frenzy" or "PinballPinballPinball" format.

http://tiltforums.com/t/pinball-pinball-pinball-tournament-report-and-format-discussion/590

* No set rounds: You play as many games as you can in the time frame, but there is no concept of a "round" concluding before a new game can be added
* A queue and auto-assignment. If a person is not on a game, they are in the queue. When a game is concluded, player 2 comes off the game and is entered into the queue. The first person in line in the queue is added as player 1 on the game that has just opened up.