Sphynx (2.10.0)

Release date: 6 July 2025

• Created section for participant self-registration
  • Participants may either register themselves for open tournaments, or have to register through an institution
  • Team slots for institutions can be easily modified
  • A new group for the registration team has been added
  • Custom questions can be added in registration forms, viewable in registration tables and admin participant record pages
• Added page for specifying a tournament schedule
• Created page for creating adjudicator feedback questions
• Adapted the minimum cost matching draw algorithm for WSDC tournaments
  • Added a draw generator where all teams are in a single graph, rather than by bracket
  • Implemented pullup priorities by draw strength then times pulled up
  • Restricted pairings based on the number of times in a position
• Let tournaments specify a number of teams as a reserve break
• Updated default permission sets for Equity and CAs
• Email sending has been refactored to avoid failing totally on individual messages, and logging the failures
• Added a new "forfeit" selector for 2-team ballots creating a win-loss without speaks
• Implemented a new option to avoid search engine indexing. Thank you to Teymour Aldridge!
• New API features:
  • Participant identification through private URL keys
  • User identification through API tokens
  • Generating draws with custom rules
• + bug fixes and optimizations!