A tournament is a competition run by an organizer, involving a number of players and fans, all participating in a sport or a game and involves a number of matches organized into brackets and pools. The base unit of a bracket has two players and the winner of a bracket advances to compete with an opponent. For a large number of players, the organizer may wish to divide the number of players into groups, also known as, pools. In some situations, a number of players form a team to compete against another team. Further, there are 4 types of bracket-style tournament, single elimination, double elimination, round robin, and Swiss. Hence, managing tournaments is an essential feature and usually implements a Tournament Management System (TMS).
Tournaments, events, and seasons forma hierarchical competition structure that is used for organizing multiple tournaments across time and space. A tournament is a standard sized competition consisting of pools and brackets. An event is a larger sized competition consisting of one or more tournaments. A season is the largest sized competition consisting of one or more tournaments as well as one or more events. A stakeholder in a tournament can be a tournament organizer, a single player, a team of players, or a fan. A user of an application for this integrated system can play one or more roles of stakeholders.
As tournament organizers organize a tournament, many utilize software tools to keep track of players participating in their tournament, determine player seeding, and record competition results. In addition, tournament organizers can wish