Hi Folks,
So.. here's an idea for notifying players effectively.
Start a Game screen - You choose all the settings for your map, put in the password, number of players, round title, and choose the tournament.
When you choose a tournament, a text-entry box pops up to the right that takes x lines (where x = number of players) of text entry, (hopefully able to be pasted from excel in a block) which are player names, and assigns those players to that game. (also avail is search by name facility)
Those players are then either sent a pm (if they want to be - in settings) informing them that the game is ready to be joined but will not begin until they go into "waiting for players" and click "join game" - yes, this will automatically put your tournament game into their waiting for players games, and until all players confirm the game won't start. No more crappy game number searching. Join a tourney, get placed in your games.
Marginally more work for us on the game creation front. Zerofication of the work on the pm front, now we can save pm time for actually responding to queries.
On another note, the possibility of a welcome message for tournament games from tournament directors would be nice? Auto-popped into game chat on start.
What do you think?
