Could anyone describe the organization of EVO/major fighting game tournaments?

Having been only the the TFC here in Raleigh, I’m interested to know what systems other major tournaments use to organize the matches and results? Is it usually just volunteers running around yelling out people’s names and marking the results on printouts?

thats the jist of it

And if people decide to get fancy they’ll use challonge.com

Even with challonge, the marshals still usually have a printout of the brackets that they can use to move things along without access to a computer.

That said, for SEAM 2014, we were doing some fancy stuff with a tablets that allows the marshalls to send data quickly back to the stream station regarding matches and results.