T3 . TableTop Tournament
Postat: 08 maj 2009, 19:20
Hello everybody,
I hope this the right place to put this message... I just read some comments on this website (an English version is normally available) so i thing that giving you a small presentation is good.
This website site hide a lot of useful tools, for organizer there is several function very useful. First of all there is two kind of announcement, one is a simple one, with small options and one with all option (both are free of course). The T3 full announcement give a lot of function: like sending an email at all players (or players who the army list still missing, same for subscription, etc...) of the tourney in three mouse clicks. Organizer have also access on personal player data as phone number, email... All the stuff you need to contact your players. There is a calendar, so it's easy to avoid to put to tourney on the same week-end.
There is also several tools for players, the calendar to see what is coming, a map with all incoming tournament, it's very simple to register at a tournament, or to reserve a place and to see who are going to the tourney (for tripping is useful to save money). You can also have the access to the previous announcement and evaluation of the tourney to know if it's good or not.
The ranking, if players want they can count for the ranking (for instance Austria, Belgium, Germany, France and Swiss on this European ranking http://www.tabletoptournaments.net/eu/t3_map.php). It's compute as:
http://www.tabletoptournaments.net/eu/t3_faq.php?cat=1
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I hope this the right place to put this message... I just read some comments on this website (an English version is normally available) so i thing that giving you a small presentation is good.
This website site hide a lot of useful tools, for organizer there is several function very useful. First of all there is two kind of announcement, one is a simple one, with small options and one with all option (both are free of course). The T3 full announcement give a lot of function: like sending an email at all players (or players who the army list still missing, same for subscription, etc...) of the tourney in three mouse clicks. Organizer have also access on personal player data as phone number, email... All the stuff you need to contact your players. There is a calendar, so it's easy to avoid to put to tourney on the same week-end.
There is also several tools for players, the calendar to see what is coming, a map with all incoming tournament, it's very simple to register at a tournament, or to reserve a place and to see who are going to the tourney (for tripping is useful to save money). You can also have the access to the previous announcement and evaluation of the tourney to know if it's good or not.
The ranking, if players want they can count for the ranking (for instance Austria, Belgium, Germany, France and Swiss on this European ranking http://www.tabletoptournaments.net/eu/t3_map.php). It's compute as:
So if you are interested in, and you are asking:Question: How does the computation works exactly?
Answer: Every wednesday morning (at 5:03 o'clock) the recomputation of the NTRs is started. The following algorithmic is used:
1. Depending on the tournament size the NTR-points for each acquired tournament are computed (tournament points).
2. Depending on the age of the tournament the influence of the tournament is computed. Each 150 days a tournament looses 25% of its value.
3. Every player now gets his/her points through the following formula for each tournament: PlayersPoints = (TournamentPoints / (Number of Participants - 1)) * (Number of Participants - Placement of Player) * TimeFactor
4. For a good placement you'll get a bonus to your points.
5. For each player his/her 5 highest scores (as in 3+4) are taken, sorted descending and valued at a rate of 24%/22%/20%/18%/16% (total 100%). The sum of the 5 valued scores is the number of NTR-points for the player.
Hope that help you to understand what is this website, if you are more question you can ask one of the admins or look on the FAQQuestion: Why isn't T³ available in my country?
Answer: T³ is designed in a way that I basically can be deployed for any country, but we don't want to impose T³ on someone.
To add a new country to T³ you have to take care of a bunch of things:
1) Deploying and administrating a new T³-country is really, really a lot of work. This should be clear at first!
2) First of all you need a (read: at least one) person which will be the administrator. An admin is responsible for all complete "high level" administration of tournaments, players, rankings and so forth. An admin should be someone which is known by the community and whom it trusts. Trust is an important base for such an enterprise. In addition to that it's a demand that the admin has a good command of English for the T³-team internal communication. The whole works hasn't be done by a poor single person. More persons can become administrators, but one should be the main responsible admin / contact.
3) If the new country needs a new language, which T³ doesn't support yet, the initial amount of works increases a lot. At the moment (January 2009) we have over 110 scripts waiting for a translation. In addition there is a lot of content in the database. Therefore it's a demand that there is someone with a really good command in English (or German). This hasn't to be an admin, but it would be an advantage.
4) A more technical aspect is that geographical data of the country is needed to gain the full functionallity of T³. The geodata needed is basically a mapping of postcodes and cities to longitudes and latitudes.
5) The tabletop community really has to want T³ for their country. If noone is going to use T³, it doesn't make any sense. Only the public backing can lead to a success.
If all these points didn't scare someone away, he is gladly welcome to contact Blackhawk in English or German (see Contacts at the end of the navigation).
http://www.tabletoptournaments.net/eu/t3_faq.php?cat=1
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