This is a "beta" test version.

Tournament Manager

• When setting the score of a jiu jitsu match, the match wasn't being treated as "done" unless you specified that one player had won by submission. This is now fixed so that winning by points counts as a win.
• Single Elimination brackets - the match for 3rd place was overlapping the final match.

This is a "beta" test version.

Tournament Manager

• Added Club Ranking screens. These screens may still have some issues to work out. If you define clubs and assign them as competitors check in, then these screens will rank clubs by total number of medals and by points. You can set how many points each place is worth on the Tournament properties screen.
• I discoverd that when I added the new Double-KO and Double Pool bracket types, I accidently caused sevral of the other bracket types to get renumbered. The result being that if you had saved a tournament with an older version and loaded it with a newer one, some brackets would suddenly become a different type. I've restored the original definitions and put the new ones at the end.

This is a "beta" test version.

This is a "beta" test version.

Timer

• There is now an option under the rules to allow more than one ippon. It's off by default. Some clubs use this for kids to allow the match to continue for the full time.

This is a "beta" test version.

Timer

• Setting a score of Ippon will no longer stop the timer by default. The timer should not be stopped until the referee says "soramate". There is an option under the rules to set this back the old way if you prefer.

Tournament Manager

• Added a 2-Pool bracket type. This breaks up the competitors into two round-robbin pools. After each round robin pool is done, the top two from each pool continue on to a single-elimination bracket.
• Added a tab to the Tournament Info window to set points for a cup-rating system. The actual cup standings aren't computed yet, but this is the first step in implementing it.

This is a "beta" test version.

Tournament Manager

• Brackets that take more than one page now print on a single page.
• Brackets now show the match number for each match
• Added a Messages window (on the File menu). Currently this shown a message when all matches are done in a division. This is for tournaments that want to be able to award medals as soon as each division finishes. You can delete the messages to keep track of which divisions have been awarded.

This is a "beta" test version.

Tournament Manager

• The Competitors screen can now show optional columns for Club, City and State. Right click the column headings to show and hide columns.
• Compititors who are not in any division or who are the only person in a division are now highlighted on the Competitors list.

This is a "beta" test version.

This is a "beta" test version.

Tournament Manager

• Fixed a few issues discovered at an in-house jiu-jitsu tournament. We will be using this version for the 2011 Cornhusker State Games.

This is a "beta" test version.

This is a "beta" test version.

Tournament Manager

• Fixed some problems with the new bracket types.
• Fixed shortcuts for the Competitor Registration Station.
• Added a Mat filter to the Matches screen. If you have multiple mats, you can now choose to show all matches or just the ones on one mat.
• Fixed result screens.

This is a "beta" test version.

Tournament Manager

• Implemented 8-person and 16-person Double-KO bracket types. These are similar to the Double Elimination but not exactly the same.
• The logging I had added in the previous build was preventing the program from exiting. This is now fixed.

This is a "beta" test version.

• Added some debugging information. Some people are having problems getting the network connection to work. The debug file will be written to either C:\Documents and Settings\[your user name]/Application Data/Willissoft (if you're on Windows XP) or C:\Users\[your user name]/AppData/Roaming/Willissoft (if you're on Windows Vista or Windows 7).

This is a "beta" test version.

This build is for test purposes only and should not be considered "stable"

This build is for test purposes only and should not be considered "stable"

Tournament Manager

• A few fixes to problems we found at a tournament this weekend.

This build is for test purposes only and should not be considered "stable"

• Resolved some problem with the install file builder. This build actually exists :)
• Deleting a competitor was removing them from the list but not from the underlying table in the data set, so if you saved and then reloaded, they came back. This is now fixed.
• Brazilian Portuguese translation is now available.

• Some Hungarian translation updates.

• Added Hungarian translation (thanks to Balint Szelepcs�nyii)
• Brazilian Portuguese is coming soon (thanks to Arthur Lucena)

This build is for test purposes only and should not be considered "stable"

This version has been updated to use Microsoft .NET 4.0. If you do not have the .NET 4.0 runtime on your machine, you can either let Windows Updates install it for you or download it from Microsoft. There is a link to the Microsoft page to download it on our page.

New Features

• Communication between the Scoreboard and the Tournament Manager has been rewritten.
• Remote Competitor Registration Station. You have to have the Tournament Manager running on one machine and can still use it to register competitors, but you can also have one or more additional machines running the Remote Competitor Registration program. This program will automatically find the Tournament Manager and changes to the competitors, divisions and clubs are automatically synced between all stations.
• The competitor photo on the Add Competitor screen can now be captured with a webcam if you have one. I'm still not sure what this will be good for, but somebody asked for it.
• Support for Sambo rules.

What's New in this version? Nothing!
I just decided that it's time I took this thing out of "Beta" status and made it official. This is version 1.0!

I have some ideas for some enhancements that I'll be working on in the next few weeks which will become the start of version 1.1. Some of these enhancements are:

• Add the ability to have multiple "weigh-in" stations all communicate to a single Tournament Manager program.
• Competitor photos. I added this feature at somebody's request a while back, but you can't actually do anything with them yet.
• Next Match message on the bottom of the scoreboard.
• Update the network protocol between the Scoreboard and the Manager program. The current version is using some technology that was available in .NET 2.0 that seems to have problems with two-way communication after it's been connected for a while.

Tournament Manager

• User suggestion: The "Rank" column on the competitors screen now shows a color sample of the competitor's belt color.

Tournament Manager

• Fixed a DBNull error when loading a saved file that had Tournament Properties if you hadn't specified the rules.
• The "Play" button on the reports screen now shows up for languages other than English.

Tournament Manager

• Support for multiple mats
  • You can now set the number of mats on the Network tab of the preferences window. Actually, this has been there for a while, but setting it never really did anything.
  • If the number of mats is greater than one, you can set which mat each division is on.
  • The matches screen now has a Mat column. You can move a match from one mat to another by right-clicking on the match.
• Reports screen
  • Added a checkbox to the list of reports.
  • Added a Play button to the toolbar. When clicked, it will cycle through each report that is checked.

Timer

• Fixed an error message problem when run in English.

• Updates to the Ukrainian translation.

• Ukrainian translation actually in the install package. (Thanks to Oleh Koshel)

• Ukrainian translation (Thanks to Oleh Koshel)

Tournament Manager

• The OK button on the preferences didn't work. It was trying to validate a control that's hidden now (the setting was moved to the Rules panel), and since you couldn't enter a value, it refused to save and close.

Timer

• Found that I had accidently translated a blank label to say "Blank". In 36pt font. In 6 different languages.

• Fixed a problem with saving new rule sets.

• Some updates to the Dutch (Flemmish) translation.
• Corrected a few bugs that were reported.
• The Tournament Manager's Preferences now has a Rules tab.
• Minimum time between matches now comes from the currently selected Rules instead of just being a preference.

• Dutch (Flemmish) translation (thanks to Jan D'haene)
• Initial implementation of ADCC Jiu Jitsu rules.

Timer

• Fixed a problem with the Preferences window.

• French Canadian translation (thanks to "towing")
• Seperated the rule to clear scores and penalties on golden-score rounds into two seperate rules: one for scores and one for penalties.

• Spanish translation (thanks to Carmen)

Tournament Manager

• I forgot something. Whey you supporting multiple languages, each form has to be checked to make sure that the labels fit and sometimes controls have to be moved around to make room for longer text. This I had done. Then I went and rearanged the controls on the Edit Competitor form in English but forgot to fix the layout for the other languages. It looks better now.

  Of course, I also added new labels which need to be translated. Fortunately, I think I can rely on Google to translate these, but for now, they're in English.

Timer

• Added Italian translation (thanks to Loris Gennaro)

Tournament Manager

• Added Italian translation (thanks to Loris Gennaro)
• Rank categories now include "Intermediate". This was requested by somebody who's club has beginner, intermediate and advanced divisions in their tournaments.
• Another feature that I forgot to mention a couple versions ago: You can now specify the belt colors being used in your tournament and what rank category they each fall into (which now includes intermediate). The rank dropdown on the competitor form now shows the color to make it easier to recgonize. You can customize the belt colors on the Tournament Peroperties window.
• Competitor form now has blanks for telephone number and email address.
• Competitor form has optional photo. Nothing uses this ... yet. It stores the filename of the photo, so you have to keep the file around for now. I may have to consider modifying the file format to be some sort of zip file so that it can keep the photos and the data all in one place.
• Temporarly removed the Clubs... menu item because it didn't do anything. I wrote myself a reminder to implement that.

Tournament Manager and Timer

• I got Visusal Studio 2010 and found a nice spell-check plugin which pointed out several spelling errors in both the user interface and the help file.

Tournament Manager

• Fixed some problems where changing divisions while that division was selected on the reports screen would cause it to crash trying to update the report.
• Added an absolute match number to the matches screen.
• One more step towards adding multiple mat support.

Timer

• Made the gap between the segments on display digits adjustable.

Tournament Manager

• Fixed a couple issues found in our last tournament.
• Rank (specific) is now a drop-down and lists actual ranks with color samples. Selecting a rank automatically sets the "Rank (general)" to either Novice or Advanced. The ranks listed includes the junior ranks that we use. I researched this a bit and it seems that the ranks used for juniors vary from country to country. The Tournament Properties screen now has a tab to allow you to edit the ranks.

Timer

• Initial implementation of localization for multiple languages. Includes poor (automatic) translations of German and Spanish. Google's translation tools are good, but without context, they sometimes guess incorrectly. For example, they think a "bracket" is a "support" and a "coach" is a "bus". I'm looking for volunteers who actually know these languages (and any others) to help with this. See the News page for details.

Tournament Manager

• Initial implementation of localization for multiple languages (see description above).
• Fixed Bug 67: When the timer asked for the "next match" after the last match, it just got the last match again.

Timer

• Updated the help file.

Tournament Manager

• Rules editor now has a "New Rules" button and Import/Export options.
• Fixed the tab order on the Add Competitor window.

Timer

• Changed to accomidate 2010 IJF rules changes. Specifically, Golden-Score rounds no longer clear the score from the previous round.
• Redesigned how we handle rules.
• The Presets menu now has lists for rules.

Tournament Manager

• Changed to use new rules system. There is now a Rules option on the Tournament menu to allow you to change rules.

Tournament Manager

• Fixed some problems if you drag multiple players into a division. This could cause problems reloading the file if you saved it this way.

Timer

• Player text colors are now configurable.

Tournament Manager

• Fixed error creating new divisions. Thanks to Roelof Luinge from the Netherlands for reporting this.

Timer

• Added support for 16:9 (wide screen) aspect ratio on the secondary score monitor. You also have the option of hiding the comeptitor's names which makes it fit better on 16:9.
• Started adding support for "Freestyle Judo". This isn't quite done yet, but is ready to be tested. It seems to work, but I'm not sure I have all the rules accounted for.

Tournament Manager

• Spell "shuffling" correctly.

Tournament Manager

• Added an experimental match shuffeling algorithm. You can pick which algorithm to use when you shuffle matches.

Tournament Manager

• Team vs. Team divisions done (or at least ready for testing).

This build is for test purposes only and should not be considered "stable"

Tournament Manager

• Added competitor types. Competitors can now be "Individual" or "Team" (default is Individual). In theory, Teams can only be added to divisions set to "Team" divisions and Individuals can only be added to Individual divisions. This isn't enforced yet (it's on the list to do)
• Added Team vs. Team bracket type. This mostly works now.
• Started adding support for "Team" divisions. Team divisions are like normal divisions (single elimination, double elimination, round-robin, etc.) except instead of each fight being between two individuals, each "fight" is actually a complete Team vs. Team bracket. This is mostly implemented but has problems yet.
• Save As will now default to the newer file format, regardless of what format was loaded. Before, if you loaded an old format file and added some new feature (like a team) and saved, they wouldn't come back because the new tables didn't get written out. Of course, as I type this, I realize I forgot to do this for Save. That will be in Build 97.

Timer

• Added support for Jiu-Jitsu tournament scoring.

Tournament Manager

• Added support for Jiu-Jitsu tournament scoring.
• Deleting a Division wasn't deleting the matches from the matches list.
• Fixed problems saving and loading to new format.

Timer

• Minor cosmetic fixes.

Timer

• There is now an option for how to show a 2nd Waza-Ari. By default, a second Waza-Ari will show as a 2 in the W digit. This can be changed by setting the "Promote 2 Waza-Ari to Ippon" setting on the All Settings tab of the Preferences window to True. Either way, the status will show "Waza-Ari Awasete Ippon".
• After hitting the "Next Match" button, the focus is directed away from the button now. This allows you to bind the main timer Start/Stop to the Enter key. Before, the button would retain the focus which means that hitting "Enter" would cause the button to be activated again rather than starting the timer.
• Resetting the Osaekomi clock with an unawarded score will no longer award the score. According to my referee consultant, scores should not be automatically awarded--the referee must award the score and then the operator can record it. So now, when the Osaekomi clock is stopped at a point where a score should be awarded, it will draw a red border around that score digit until the score is actually awarded. That way, even if the Osaekomi clock is reset and restarted, the reminder to award the score is still there. I'm not quite happy with how this looks though, as the red border doesn't show up well against the white background.

Tournament Manager

• The screen for entering competitors now has a blank for specifying which club the person is from. Entering a club that is not yet defined will ask you to enter the club details. This is a step towards adding a new feature for
• There is now a Tournament Properties window where you can set the name of the tournament, date, location, host club, referees, etc. This will eventually be used on the information screens and reports.

Version 0.7 - Build 89 - 93

Working on the program that creates the installer packages to have it automatically update this page. No actual changes to the program.

Version 0.7 - Build 88

Tournament Manager

• The file format has completely changed. It's still XML, but now it's much easier to read into internal structures and write back out, making it easier to add new features. This was such a radical change that the version was bumpped to 0.7. The program can still read and write files saved in the 0.6 format.

Tournament Manager

• There is now a Reports pane which will let you select what graphic to display on a second monitor. This includes the "upcoming matches" screen as well as brackets and result screens. The result screens can be used during the awards presentations to show the places for each division.