Hi again. This is an amendement to the last article where I showed you some tournament screenshots including the fixtures for group stage. We've put together the KO fixture presentation layer now. The system will decide what is better to do based on the number of entries. So byes and preliminary rounds will be created where necessary.

KO draw with a preliminary round (17 runners)

KO draw with a BYE (15 runners)

Although the tournament screens are not finished yet, I decided to share some screenshots with you guys. Bare in mind that these pages are effectively just mockups for now. We will revisit and try to make everything look flashier ... but for now this will give you an idea.

1. Event basic configuration. This will only be shown to the organiser when setting up the event. The users will obviously have a different view

2. Venue information. This will give all the users the ablility to see the place where the tournament is held and get directions based on their pool-mates registered address.

3. The players of the tournament. People will be able to register via this page and the organiser can invite and add even non pool-mates users to the draw

4. The draw and results of the tournament. The tournament I've set up here is a multi-stage tournament of group stages and followed by a knock out stage. For now we've only implemented the UI for groups and swiss system, we are currently working on Knock out and Double Elimination

5. And this is how the organiser will update the scores for the matches.

OK guys, that's it for now. Thanks for checking this out and we always welcome feedback.

Hi all,

Just finished working on the "tournament engine" of poolmates. This is effectively the piece of code that will be used to automatically generate the fixtures of the events, resulting of matches and events and generally handling the functionality needed to run mutlistage tournaments that the website will support. There were quite a few challenges faced in this phase and most importantly the implementation of a pairing system for swiss system tournaments.

This is a step closer to finish off the work needed for organising and running events but unfortunately there is still a lot of work to be done. We really aim for releasing the first version of the website by the end of the year ... nearly 2 years after we started development.

So rock on and stay tuned !

I am sure many of you visit this blog several times a day hoping for exciting news (well at least my mate Rob does :)).

Anyway, we've been recently finishing off the social aspects of the website. By that I mean the interaction of the players of the website, friendships, personal information and news feeds. Currently the development is focused on the event organising which will be the heart of www.pool-mates.com. We are still trying to architect the system in a way that it can support multiple event types like:

• Groups (round robin)
• KO
• Double elimination
• Swiss System
• and the combination of all the above

Also adding support for leagues that can hopefully be used by many people out there already running leagues. Yes you've heard correctly, you will be able to get rid of the horrible excel sheets that you use to work out the rankings, fixtures etc.. :)

That's it for now, I will come back soon (this time I mean it) with more details.

Take care

Hi everyone,

I know development is going slower than expected, but I am trying to put as much of my free time on this as possible. And for you out there that know what development is like this takes time :)

In any case there is some progress done. Internationalization framework is all completed, and the profile pages are being slowly done. For now registration and the picture gallery functionalities are done.

This is how the homepage/registration will look like. It is simple, you can either register or log in to your account via this page.

This is an idea of how the profile will look. For now we have concentrated mostly on the gallery as we know how important aspect this is to a social networking website.

As you can see the name of the guy is "Awesome Pool Player".....hmmm what a modest user :)

And adding a new album

And how view picture mode, with commenting and a lot of other features.

Ok guys, this is it for now. Please let me know what you think and what we can improve.

More to come ..... promise :)