League Match Feature Open Discussion

[voodooc]

Hello there, gentle Smashballers, we're looking for your input!

We're looking into what features we want to add to the web site. Our next focus is going to be on match automation: scheduling matches, launching a properly-configured server, and saving things afterwards.

We want suggestions from you, our rabid and loyal fans, as to what kind of capabilities would make it easier for you to schedule matches. We want to make it as painless as possible for team captains to play a match against another team.

The kind of things we're looking for include:

Match Scheduling

* Let teams set their general availability
* Search for teams with the same availability in the same league
* request/decline process for asking other teams to play against you
* pick a particular region (EU, US-EAST, US-WEST, AU) for the match to be held in
* pick the maps used for a match

Server

* Only allow players on proper teams to join (ringers have to join team as reserve first)
* Automatically start up a server with the proper settings
* Automatically put players on the right team
* Identify team captains who join
* Require team captains to signify 'READY' before starting
* Start demo recording for each match
* Automatically set player tag to team tag
* Create bench 'position' that can be selected instead of fd, hb, etc. that does not spawn but can spec
* Enforce team limit (how many players on team) and field limit (how many per team in play) apart from server limit
* Set up a SourceTV relay for the match?

Post-match
* Upload demo to league to make available for download on match page
* Automatically render match video, up to youtube, link to match page
* Shut down server