GR1 - BrackeTracker

Stephen Chang, Sarah Han, Samvaran Sharma

User analysis

There are a few personas who represent the main users of our product. To create each persona we have interviewed people who perform user class function:

• the Manager
  • The manager had run a variety of tournaments, both small scale and medium scale tournaments (~10 participants and ~35 participants respectively).  In the medium sized tournament, the hardest aspect of managing and running the tournament was figuring out the tournament structure and bracket.  With that many teams, there were many different possible tournament styles: single elimination, double elimination, round-robin, etc.  Because of the unusual conditions of the tournament, three-player matches (1v1v1) instead of two-player matches (1v1), he decided that the simplest, yet still fair, tournament structure was a round-robin tournament with 1 player having a bye to the second round.  
• the Challenger
• Manager/Challenger
• for people who know how to use a computer and want a quick solution for creating a tournament
• for people of all ages
• need little-no previous experience
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Task analysis

There are a few main tasks involved with the Bracketracker.  These tasks include:

• Create a tournament
• Update the tournament
• View your tournament(s)
• Searching for and Joining tournament(s)
• Manage a tournament