Consider how to support organizers that want to announce how many people advance

[jfly]

This is either # of people, percentage, or a some sort of time cutoff. We will definitely punt on this for Phase 1.

[jfly]

@jbcm627, any thoughts here?

[jbmertens]

Indeed, allowing all of these options is good (with the WCA % limit as a default?).

Maybe a dialog that shows separate inputs for all of these, which allows you to change any one, while dynamically correcting values in the other inputs when making a change.

[jfly]

OK. Unfortunately, I think we can only correct values for cutoffs that are expressed as a number of people. I also think we should show warnings, rather than try to dynamically correct values, because when you first fill this out, there will presumably not be anyone registered yet, so nothing will be allowed.

One reason to not punt on this for Phase 1 is because we don't let users enter arbitrary HTML/data on their page, and organizers are going to want to publish their advancing cutoffs.

[jfly]

http://www.cubingusa.com/austincubinglimits2015/events.php is an example of announcing the number of people who advance to future rounds.

[jfly]

I just talked to Vincent about this. He pointed out that for rounds that have not yet started and do not have any competitors in them, the 0/0 progress bar we currently show is useless. We think the best thing to do would be to would be to show a button instead. This button would let organizers set the size of the round (it would also show the set size of the round if one is already set).

[jfly]

I should mention that the commit that closed this issue only supports announcing a number of competitors who advance, not a percentage, nor a time cutoff. We'll revisit this if someone ever asks for it.