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Tournaments!

Tournaments are coming! This will be one of the biggest changes to the ButtonWeavers site that we've ever made in one hit. The initial commit, which only includes very basic functionality (rudimentary UI, single elimination tournaments), requires changes to 22 files and the addition of 44 files. It involves roughly 5000 new lines of code, including 3 all new UI pages. The backend design of tournaments is intended to meet future requirements easily, including new tournament types button restriction better display of tournaments, tailored to each tournament type the ability to force the tournament to advance past idle games (no more bonefish ing!) automatic site generation of daily tournaments I'm excited, but there's a lot of testing yet to happen, and the look and feel of tournaments is likely to change a lot as we start using them. My hope is that tournaments will help people to get connected with others on the site more easily. I am looking forward to stumbl...