Excalibur: single-game-round tournament software

Just downloaded it and will try to give you some feedback especially from a first time experience.

Running it on Linux.

Works fine for me so far and really like it very much. I think what is missing for me, is to know how to use it. So when running a 8 Player tournament, how many rounds? 5? Some help in this direction would be appreciated.

  • You have some explanations on GitHub and some here (1st Post, e.g. how to reach the software). I think it would be good when a kind of readme.txt would be included explaining the first steps.
  • Some help how to start the software would be useful (from a shell)
  • The download is called linux_64, something with a better name would be helpful (e.g. excalibur?)
  • Would be nice if the software version would be contained in the filename or somewhere
  • When you select Matches, there is no back
  • What is missing is to see a kind of status where I’m. After recording the results I have to finish the round, so that the results are published. So there is a process to follow but it would be good to know, what is the next step.

When I would understand this in more detail I would like to run a tournament with this.

When you are saying small test tournament, can share some details? How many players? How many swiss rounds? What was the experience like? Did the players enjoyed it? Or found it to be unfair?