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yeah,
from the front page of dakka...

Tournament Overlord Relaunched.
Tournament Overlord boasts an impressive list of features that make it by far the most powerful and effective tool for tournament organisers:

=> Suitable for tournaments of any miniature game system, trading card game or computer game.
=> Customisable scoring criteria. Including round-by-round or overall scoring.
=> Powerful round-by-round match up engine.
=> Automatically calculates strength-of-schedule.
=> Grudge Matches.
=> Custom "no play" lists. Ensure players from the same State, club, team and army do not meet in as many rounds as you wish.
=> Tables allocations either by seeding or random selection.
=> Built in round timer with customisable warning settings.
=> Ability to export results to Excel or .csv.

A fully functional version of Tournament Overlord is available for free for tournaments of 12 players or less. However as part of the re-launch we are now selling unlimited use 12 month licenses for just US$59.95.



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Looks like great software.
It's a real Shame the free version is limited to 12 players, most small tournaments that I've been involved in are non profit affairs.
And don't have $59 to throw at software!

IMO
They should change their buisness model... Limiting Purchases to 1 year licenses is pure greed.
This should not be time limited and there should be a cheaper purchase for small tournamnets with less than 20 tables.
$15 may have seen small clubs and infrequent tournament organisers buying their software.

At both Dakkas Platinum Devil and Dakkas SilverSorcerer Entry fees covered costs and prize support...
Both had more than 6 tables but adding $59 to the running costs is too much! that's prize support cash that it!

Panic...

Link to site?

You can find the link here:

http://www.rankingshq.com/tournamentoverlord

yeah,
I can see the benifits for store owners who have regular tournaments for various game systems or great big tournaments.
$59 probabily seems OK.

Maybe they should have $5 monthly licences for smaller (less than 20 tables?) once per year tournments.

Panic...

Considering the software I use for sports tourneys with rankings and is old and hard to use is way more, 59$ seems incredibly reasonable especially if it works well and keeps tourneys on track.

59$ for a highly specialized piece of software is cheap in the software realm, I would expect something like this that has obvious commercial applications due to store owners to be easily in the multiple hundreds.


And if 59$ is too much, then Excel and a paper notepad and manually running your tourneys is ---------->

59.95 is quite reasonable.

It's not designed for smaller, one time tournaments. It's designed to help larger tournaments, and stores or TO's that run a lot of tournaments.

I was vocal in my criticism of their old model, which was on a per person use for each tournament, and was very expensive on a yearly basis. 59.95 to make running tournaments easier is a no brainer for me, and many other TO's. A yearly fee is reasonable, especially if it comes with upgrades, fixes, and support.

mikhaila wrote:A yearly fee is reasonable, especially if it comes with upgrades, fixes, and support.

I would say it's only reasonable in that case, but that's just me.

mikhaila wrote:59.95 is quite reasonable.

It's not designed for smaller, one time tournaments. It's designed to help larger tournaments, and stores or TO's that run a lot of tournaments.

I was vocal in my criticism of their old model, which was on a per person use for each tournament, and was very expensive on a yearly basis. 59.95 to make running tournaments easier is a no brainer for me, and many other TO's. A yearly fee is reasonable, especially if it comes with upgrades, fixes, and support.

So they got rid of the per player fees? That was the main reason I decided their software was fairly insane. I use Swiss perfect which is great but obviously designed for chess. As someone who runs AT LEAST 1 tournament a month I'll be looking into this assuming it has no crazy hidden fees

Yeah, its making our club look at it a bit more - we run 7 - 8 tournaments / campaign weekends a year, so $60 is nothing really.