Product Overview

Dr. Neau's Tournament Manager is a tournament management system. It's mainly geared for poker tournaments, but could also be used for billiard tournaments, dart tournaments, etc.

The primary goal of this application is to streamline the runtime administration of your tournament as much as possible. This goal is accomplished in two ways:

  1. Presentation of critical tournament information to all players

    The application presents critical tournament information to all players via its "console". Examples include:

    Having this information constantly visible benefits your players as well as yourself. For your players, it means they have access to the information they need whenever they want it. For you, it means they don't have to constantly ask you questions. That, in turn, means you can spend time concentrating on other tasks...like how to extract more chips from your opponent (if you also happen to be playing).

    Do you have tables spread out among multiple rooms? The application supports a client/server architecture that allows remote systems to display the console...assuming the systems are connected by a network.

  2. Automation to streamline access to key information and make decisions and assistance to streamline updates that data as needed

    The application can be used to automate decision making during your tournament and then carry out your tasks for you. Examples include:

In addition to this primary goal, the application also has two secondary goals:

  1. Streamline the preparation for a tournament
  2. The application provides many tools to get you up and running as quickly as possible so that you can start your tournament as quickly as possible:

  3. Streamline the post-tournament work you need to do in order to communicate results to the tournament participants
  4. Many people like to post the results of their tournament on a website (either their own or a poker league website) or send results out in email.

    The application provides many facilities for exporting tournament and league information. This information can then be communicated to your players via whatever mechanism you desire.

This application is written in Java, which means that it will work on virtually any modern operating system, assuming the Java runtime is installed. For most people, that means either Windows or Mac-OS...but for some that also means Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, etc.