Tournaments and events section

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I find it really hard to navigate this section. When I look for an event, my eyes only need to scan for a 3-5 attributes - location (city, state), date, games, platform, entry fee.

There’s already a good attempt at standardizing the thread titles, but we should come up with specific fields for posting a tournament/event thread and have them populated in the thread title. Or have the forum parse the first post for variables (or fields - similar to the tag field) so it’s something like
!City:Burbank
!State:CA
!Entry:$5
!Platform:Xbox
!Game:SSF4, MK9, BB

Sometimes people omit key information from the above mentioned 4 points. Sometimes there’s stuff in the title that has nothing to do with the tournament so I end up clicking on a thread and the tournament is in New Jersey for Primal Rage on SNES-I’m exaggerating but you’ve all experienced this.

It would also help if there were just sub-sections for regions, or something like US-West and US-East. I know the matchmaking forums has sub-forums for regions and I could understand how hectic it would be to manage the same number of sub-forums for tournaments, but maybe just split it up into 2 regions. If it’s not in the interest to do this, it would be appreciated it someone enforced the standardization of thread titles more actively.

Thanks,

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Date, City and State are standardized with the new event system.

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That works for the upcoming events, but in that section few comments: the date/location text is too small, I can’t filter by ZIP code (or distance e.g 20 miles) and can only see the next 3 days. It would be nice if you could do 7 days so you know what’s coming up for the week.

The rest of the threads aren’t standardized (yet? as people post new events?)
Thanks,

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http://shoryuken.com/forum/index.php?events/weekly

The system I wrote CAN handle multiple event forums, split up by region… if MrWiz choose to do so. I doubt he will though as the way it works now seems to be what people are used to.

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I didn’t know about that events calendar. For the longest time I was manually putting stuff into my gmail calendar, but this is great. However, I wish you had fields for the entry cost or system it’s played on.

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Tournaments have varying entry costs. In fact, some events have multiple entry costs, because they have multiple games… on multiple systems.

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Please consider adding a drop down menu for the tournaments and events visual calendar you linked earlier to the main page similar to how the Forums drop down works. Here is a mockup. The reason I suggest this is that there is no obvious link to the visual calendar after clicking the Tournaments and Events link, so adding a drop down to the visual calendar would be helpful, or adding an obvious link on the tournaments and events page.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5041556/srk1.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5041556/srknolink.JPG

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Now looking at his post, it does seem confusing how the main page has a completely different layout from the forum page. Any plans on having some consistency between the two pages?

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I dont really have anything to do with the design of the wordpress suite. I did write a portal for XenForo (which I use at http://www.8wayrun.com/), but SRK is using wordpress instead; which is why there is a different and split experience from the forum.

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Whenever I try to post a new tournament thread I keep getting the same error message:

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I’m entering all the information correctly except for the stream url(still waiting for confirmation). What am I missing or is this a bug?

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The title of your stream is far too long.

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In the stream URL field I would either leave blank or “TBD”. Both would lead to the same error message.

EDIT: Just checked the events page. The event has been put on the calendar but a thread in the tournament and events forum wasn’t made. The post a thread in the tournament and events forum box was checked. So I’m completely confused on what’s going on.