Are you up for the Challonge!
On behalf of the North American Overpower League (NAOL) Tournament Directors, I am thrilled to announce that we will be using Challonge to manage our tournaments going forward. The upcoming Oklahoma CIty Shootout will be the first tournament to use it.
So why Challonge?
Challonge offers features that many of us have been requesting for years. Listed below are a few of the features you can expect to see as we gradually implement the various services offered through Challonge. Announcements and communiques at the Community, Event and Tournament Levels through a central portal. Self-registration for tournaments, with eventual support for online payments and payouts, Support for swiss, round robin, single and double elimination tournament brackets with support for seeding and randomization of pairings during bracket generation, ELO based player rankings, Leaderboards and online updates of tournament results, Player profiles that include Ratings, Total Matches Played, Total Tournaments Participated, # of Tournaments Won, Finished 2nd, 3rd, Top 10, Overall Win Rate etc.
Integration with Social Media including Facebook, YouTube and Twitch,
Push technology, so you are always in the know and,
Best of all …. it’s all free to you 
Our tournaments will run smoother. They will start on time and finish as scheduled. As members of our NAOL Community, you will have on-demand access to your current NAOL community ranking. The more success you have at our events, the higher your ranking.
To make this a reality, we will need your help. I will provide step-by-step instructions in a later post that explain how to obtain a Challonge account and how to become part of the North American Overpower League on Challonge.
Enjoy the Challonge!
