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Site Updates Running log of updates to the site

Saturday, October 24th

  • Fixed
    • Scoring Bug from Thursday additions that limited scoring to top level admins

Thursday, October 22nd

  • Improved
    • Checkin The Check Ins header now shows how many players are still waiting to check in, and switches to “Everyone is checked in” once the list is empty.
    • Checkin The search box is ready to type in the moment the page opens — no need to click into it first.
    • Checkin Added a Clear button next to the search box; pressing Esc also clears it.
    • Checkin Clearer messages when the list is empty: “Everyone is checked in.” or “No players match your search.”
    • Checkin The “First Name” column header is now “Name,” since it shows the full name.
    • Checkin If you’re asked to log in while opening the check-in page, you’re brought back to the check-in page afterward instead of the admin page.
    • Checkin Your search stays in place after each check-in, so you can type a school name once and check in the whole team one player at a time.
    • Checkin Players’ sections now show in the list, and you can search by section.
    • Checkin Clicking Check In twice no longer records the same check-in twice — the button shows “Checking in…” while it saves.
    • Pairings page Added a live connection indicator (Live / Reconnecting / Offline) and a “Last updated” time so you can tell at a glance whether you’re seeing current results.
    • Pairings page If your connection drops (phone sleeps, Wi-Fi hiccup), the page now reconnects automatically and refreshes itself as soon as it’s back, so you don’t miss results entered while you were disconnected.
    • Pairings page While offline, the page falls back to refreshing every 30 seconds on its own.
    • Pairings page Results entered in quick succession now appear faster and without flicker.
    • Pairings page Recently updated boards stay highlighted for one minute, then clear on their own.
    • Pairings page Replaced the broken “Print Version” link with a Print button that prints a clean copy of the pairings and standings.
    • Pairings page Shows a clear message when a round’s pairings haven’t been posted yet, instead of a blank table.
    • Pairings page Team links now work correctly for schools with apostrophes, ampersands, or spaces in their names (e.g., St. Mary’s, A&M Consolidated).
    • Pairings page Player and team names are now displayed safely regardless of how they were entered.
    • Pairings page Behind-the-scenes performance improvements so the page stays responsive when hundreds of people are watching the same section at once.
    • Pairings page Fixed a header styling glitch.
    • Player Page Player names now use the correct possessive — “Mason’s Game History” instead of “Masons’” (and “James’” for names ending in s).
    • Player Page Byes are listed in the game history and tiebreak tables as “Bye — no opponent” rather than linking to a blank player.
    • Player Page Games with no result entered yet show “—” instead of a 0.0 that looked like a loss.
    • Player Page Wins, draws and losses in the game history are color-coded (green / amber / red).
    • Player Page The header now reads “2.5 pts” instead of a bare number.
    • Player Page Tiebreak calculations now show the full math for all four tiebreaks: each opponent, their score, which one was discarded for the Modified Mean and why, the round-by-round running total for Cumulative, and each opponent’s cumulative for Opponent’s Cumulative, with a total under every table.
    • Player Page Players with no games yet see a short notice instead of an empty table.
    • Player Page The update feed says “Updates every 15 seconds” (it was already refreshing every 15, but the footer said 30); it shows “Loading…” while fetching and a message when there are no updates; the feed box now scrolls properly.
    • Player Page Links to a player’s history, their team page, and the section hub now handle names with spaces or apostrophes.
    • Player Page Opening a player link that doesn’t exist returns a proper “not found” instead of an error page.
    • Section page Fixed several broken links.
    • Section page Round cells now handle byes and unpaired rounds without bogus links
    • Section page W/L/D are now colored
    • Section page Tiebreak headers have tooltips
    • Section page Tatings show “Unr” instead of 0->0
    • Section page Empty sections show a notice
    • Team page Scores and tiebreaks now display consistently with decimals (3.0, 12.5) instead of a mix of whole numbers and fractions.
    • Team page Hovering over the Total, TBMM, TBS, TBC, and TBO column headings shows what each one means.
    • Team page A “How ties are broken” guide at the bottom of the standings explains each tiebreak and the order they’re applied in.
    • Team page Each section shows which round the standings are current through.
    • Team page Each section has Full Standings and Pairings buttons.
    • Team page Each player’s rating is shown under their name, with the post-event rating once it’s available; unrated players show “Unr.”
    • Team page Feed items are now clickable and take you to that section’s pairings.
    • Team page The feed shows “No updates yet” instead of a blank space.
    • Team page The feed shows when it was last updated and a notice if it can’t reach the server, so you always know whether you’re seeing live information.
    • Team page The feed only redraws when something has changed, so it no longer flickers every 10 seconds; times like “2 minutes ago” still keep ticking.
    • Team page The page pauses refreshing while the browser tab is in the background and catches up immediately when you return, which saves battery and data on phones.
    • Team page Players who haven’t checked in are marked with a clear “Not checked in” badge.
    • Team page The page no longer errors when a player’s points or check-in status haven’t been recorded yet.
    • Team page If the team name doesn’t match any entries, the page shows a message with a link to the tournament hub instead of a blank space.
    • Team page A Tournament Hub button at the top of the feed takes you back to all sections.
    • Team page The browser tab now shows the team name.
    • Team page Section names with spaces or special characters now link correctly.
    • Tournament Hub The page pauses refreshing while the browser tab is in the background and catches up immediately when you return, which saves battery and data on phones.
    • Tournament Hub Standings cards now appear for every section in the tournament, not just the standard four.
    • Tournament Hub School and section names with special characters (apostrophes, ampersands) link correctly.
    • Tournament Hub Links that didn’t go anywhere have been removed.
    • Tournament Hub Visiting the hub without a valid tournament shows a “not found” page instead of an error.
    • Tournament Hub The hub header now shows the tournament name, date, and location.
    • Tournament Hub Teams with zero points now display 0.0 instead of “N/A.”
    • Tournament Hub Team standings refresh automatically every 30 seconds — no more reloading the page.
    • Tournament Hub Standings cards show the top 10 teams by default with a “Show all” button for the full list.
    • Tournament Hub Each standings card shows the total number of teams in that section.
    • Tournament Hub The update feed can be filtered to a single section using the “All Sections” button.
    • Tournament Hub Feed items are now clickable and take you to that section’s pairings.
    • Tournament Hub The feed shows when it was last updated and a notice if it can’t reach the server, so you always know whether you’re seeing live information.
    • Tournament Hub The feed shows a message when there are no updates yet instead of a blank space.
    • Tournament Hub The feed now scrolls within its box rather than stretching the page.
    • Tournament Hub Section badges in the feed are easier to read.
    • Tournament Hub Team standings columns are labeled (Pts, TBMM, TBS), teams are ranked, and each team shows how many players are counting toward its score.
  • Optimized
    • Pairings Pairings are now checked only against this round for rematches, so rematches that couldn’t be avoided in an earlier round no longer cause players to be shuffled around in later rounds.
    • Pairings The top board in each score group now starts with the correct due color instead of always starting with White.
    • Pairings If pairing fails partway through, the round is cleared automatically, the error is logged to the activity feed, and you’re told what went wrong so you can fix it and pair again.
    • Pairings Deleting or editing a game, adding a game, and drag-and-drop swaps now verify the players and games belong to the section you’re working in.
    • Pairings Every active player is guaranteed a seat or a bye each round. Previously a player could be silently left out when score groups didn’t balance.
    • Pairings Forced byes now go to the correct player: players who missed a round or received a zero-point bye are no longer treated as having “already had a bye.”
    • Pairings Colors are assigned from each player’s actual game history, so players alternate colors properly and no one is given the same color three times in a row when it can be avoided.
    • Pairings Players are no longer pulled from distant score groups to fix a conflict; replacements come from the same or neighboring score group.
    • Pairings Team-block avoidance now always runs, even when one school makes up most of a section. Any same-school pairings that truly can’t be avoided are counted and shown in the activity log.
    • Pairings Late entries are added at the bottom of the seeding without reshuffling everyone else’s seeds mid-tournament.
    • Pairings All pairing actions (pair, post, delete game, add game, swap players, go back a round, send alert) now require a logged-in Tournament Director.