Anyway, it's back with such renewed vigour that even the middle component of the version number has changed. If you run a co-event or are planning to do so, this may be of interest to you.
Atropine 1.2.0 download page
Improvements for organisers:
- Better diagnostics on startup failure. Are you the 100th person to try to run atropine.py from inside the zip file without extracting it first? It will now notice this and complain at you!
- Swiss fixture generator improved in both speed and results. For small to medium-sized tournaments you probably won't even need to wait the maximum 30 seconds. I've also tweaked how it evaluates player groups so that two people who are on exactly the same standings position are less likely to stick to each other like glue to the detriment of surrounding players.
- New standings table ranking methods. Wins-and-points is still the default but there are now a selection of ranking methods from this article.
- The text-exported standings table, which is the one normally posted on C4C by the organiser, now adds a note next to the finalists to say who won and lost, to explain why they might appear from their wins and points totals to be in the "wrong" positions.
- When you ask to generate fixtures, a warning is now shown if the number of active players isn't a multiple of 2 or 3.
- The "edit fixtures" page, reachable from the main result entry screen, can now add or delete fixtures, which you couldn't do previously.
- Some other minor improvements and bug fixes.
- New fonts on the public display screen, which are a bit clearer. Using a condensed font isn't as important on newer-shaped monitors. If you want the old condensed font, the organiser can switch back to that in Display Setup.
- If the tournament has 36 or more players (this is configurable), then when fixtures are generated we show the name-to-table index rather than the list of fixtures. The name-to-table index is an alphabetical list of names, each with the table number alongside it. In large tournaments it's much easier to find your table number on that than on a list of fixtures sorted by table number.
- Public-facing standings table now scrolls faster. This is by popular demand, which in Atropine terms means two or more people.