Jason Axelrod Apps

XenTorneo Buddy (XTB) is designed to work inconjunction with tournament organizers who use third-party APIs torun their tournaments such as Challonge.com (Smash.gg andTournamentEdition.com support planned for the future when theypublish their API).XTB works as a mobile satellite app that allows you to sign-up andedit players for a tournament, as well as report results and scoresfor matches in progress. It is not designed to be a stand-alonesystem for running tournaments. Basically the head TO sets up thetournament in advance, and gives proper permissions to his/her teamof sub-TOs (runners). Then the runners can use the app to registerplayers for the tournament using the app as they walk around thevenue. After the tournament has begun, runners can also use the appto quickly report match results and scores.But you may be asking... why use the app, when you can alreadydo all that with the websites for said third-party APIs? Thedifference is, XTB gives you additional access to register playersand link them to their forum user IDs on forums which use theXenTorneo Ranking system (such as 8wayrun.com and Smashboards.com).By registering a player with their user ID, it guarantees thatplayer will get credit for their performance at that event whenit's submitted to the ranking system.This alleviates extra work for the TOs after the tournament, andit establishes a sense of confidence in the ranking systems. AXenTorneo installation is NOT required to use this app; you canstill use 95% of the features of this app without it... however,you will not be able to make use of the QR code features, orstorage of cell phone numbers.