Ending a tournament

[APR]

Hi there

I use the tournament director along with a joomla component to create archive of past poker events.

Is it possible to create an event/tournament and then end it instantly without having to sit through the countdown..

That way i can export the data, if so how o i do this as i am new to the software for these purposes

thanks

[Corey Cooper]

I'm afraid I don't understand the question.  You're trying to end the tournament?  Before there's a winner?  Or ... what?

[Magic_fubu]

Corey, I believe that he's saying that there's a tournament that has already been done (perhaps with different program) where he (she?) is saying that they want to load into the TD system.

[APR]

correct

I take old live tournaments that have already happened, input the data from the tournament then post the info to my online leader board.

So once i create the tournaments and configure everything, i usually have to press start and manually bust out players etc etc

What i wanted to do is export the data after i assigned the necessary info to the tourney, without having to sit through it in real time.

Is this possible

[Magic_fubu]

The poker league I run, I alternate running with someone else. I am in the process of teaching him the program, so for now he's printing out standings and I load them in. Works for what we need (1 pt for playing, 1 pt per hit, plus a formula to distribute points to top ten). Since he's not familiar enough yet to use it, he sends me the points and I sort it out for the top ten (in fact, I just did this). As long as you have the order of the tournament, you can theoretically have a 3 minute tourney that's loaded into TD. The actual tournament may have taken hours, but if you're looking to load it in, it should only take as long as you need to record the hits.

[APR]

 

Thank you

[Magic_fubu]

Your welcome glad to be helpful

[Corey Cooper]

I use the tournament director along with a joomla component to create archive of past poker events.

Missed that sentence entirely.

What Magic_fubu said. 

[APR]

Sorry, one more thing

If i don't have the names of all participants, can i just enter the people who made the money ? or will it mess things up..

Problem with archiving is most data is scarce, from 2010 forward i have no issues..

Or is there a way to HIDE players who i don't know the names of, currently i enter a generic number like "Player5" Player6 etc to describe the ones i don't have data for

[Magic_fubu]

I do something similar to your idea - I have an "unclaimed", but I think it would be better to go about it as player 1, 2, etc, and not to start over with each new tournament, in case you find out who it really is. That way, should you find out who it is, you can merge them without any issues, as I think I may have (See my "Another merge question" topic)