If you haven't already noticed, we now allow users to log in with Facebook. This lowers the registration barrier for Challonge! itself and tournaments that use our sign-up feature. We're currently just using Facebook for authentication, but if we add additional features for their API, we'll allow existing Challonge! users to connect their Facebook accounts.
Also related to tournament sign-ups, you can now require users to sign up for your tournaments with Challonge! accounts. Previously, there was no way to disable the "lame" name-only sign-up option.
I'll keep development promises to myself for now, but there's some good stuff in the works for early 2011. Stay tuned!
Do you think you could add an API for using this with scripted http post requests from an irc bot or something similar?
ReplyDeleteAre you referring to signing up or logging in?
ReplyDeleteThe Challonge! RESTful API already supports participant management: http://challonge.com/api/tournaments/:tournament/participants/create