Last modified: 2011-05-15 03:49:29 UTC
We should have an interface for easily providing a graphical representation of tournament brackets, such as those used in sporting or gaming competitions. This would be preferred over a textual description (a picture is worth a thousand words...) A basic syntax (based on EasyTimeline syntax) could be as follows: <bracket> TeamData = id:FOO name:foo id:BAR name:bar id:BAZ name:baz MatchData = id:SF num:2 team1:FOO team2:BAR winner:FOO id:F num:2 team1:SF team2:BAZ </bracket> This would create a bracket where foo plays bar, with the winner (foo) playing baz. Additional markup may allow for other annotations such as scores, a link to the match summary, footnotes, etc. This bracket extension would be heavily based on developments in image generation or SVG (not knowing how far either has gone, I am admittedly not aware of the feasibility of this extension).
There is little point doing an extension for this Do a SVG yourself and upload it
(In reply to comment #1) > There is little point doing an extension for this > > Do a SVG yourself and upload it There's a much higher threshold for marking an extension request as "wontfix." In this case, an obvious benefit to an HTML output of a bracket is much easier updating/localization than an SVG. An extension also allows for much, much easier standardization of brackets between pages. I'm not re-opening this as the proposed syntax/implementation makes me shudder in horror and subsequent template developments have made brackets in HTML tables much easier (e.g., <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tournament_bracket_templates>).
