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This is a great idea, thank you for building it!

My wife organises a lot of double elimination tournaments; could you add that as an option?

Also, it would be cool to see the live demo tournament populated with matches, so you'd get an idea straight away of the experience without needing to create stages etc (but also keep the ability to set up a new tournament).

Lastly re notifications that wavemode suggested; perhaps you let people pay for SMS notifications themselves, as an option beyond web notifications. This page [1] implies that web push notifications are unreliable, on iOS and android.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79215345/reliability-of-...

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Thanks!

> My wife organises a lot of double elimination tournaments; could you add that as an option?

Yes there's an open issue about that, I do plan to implement that, hopefully rather soon.

> Also, it would be cool to see the live demo tournament populated with matches

Ah that makes sense. I didn't want to set up everything already because it might not be the way you want it to be and would unnecessarily put load on my server. But a few teams+matches should be doable indeed, good idea!

> Lastly re notifications that wavemode suggested; perhaps you let people pay for SMS notifications themselves, as an option beyond web notifications. This page [1] implies that web push notifications are unreliable,

Ah that's unfortunate. I will look a bit more into Twilio then, thanks for raising that!

If it's self hosted, you shouldn't care if it costs money. Let the person/org decide if they want to use it, just provide an interface for it. There are tons of free, self hosted apps that have tons of notification methods available. Radarr alone has 26 methods for notifications, none enabled by default. They include generic webhook, "custom script", and then there a number of specific ones where you put in the URL, API key, etc. and as the person hosting it things would go against my API count/bill. There's no need for you to be specific about Twilio, just have a notification framework with Twilio being one of the providers.

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