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Simple Tournament Director
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 12:06:00 AM
Simple Tournament Director is free! It helps you manage your home game poker tournaments. You set up levels, blinds and chip-values for the tournament and it will display this during the course of the tournament. The program is written in Java so you can run it under most operating systems like Microsoft Windows and Linux. as long as the latest version(1.6) of Java is installed.
Macintosh OS X is not yet supported since it uses an older version (1.5) of Java.
Be advised that as of now there is no player or table management in Simple Tournament Director. If you need that kind of functionallity you should pay for some of the more advanced packages out there.
To nagivate posts of interest, check out the links.
Main features:
- 100% FREE, No Spyware, Adware, Ads or anything is included in the software.
- Display Blinds/Antes/Remaining leveltime.
Show information about the current level as well as the next. - Save your tournament setups.
Save and load your most frequently used chipvalues and levels. - Configurable layout.
Alter the size of the different components or change background colors. - Background image.
Use a background image for the main display. - Fullscreen mode.
Run the software in fullscren exclusive mode. - Supports dualscreen or setups with two monitors.
- Voice syntheziser.
Have the software "speak" blinds and leveltimes. (experimental) - Modify a running tournament.
Change future levels or chips while the tournament is running. - Fast configuration.
Have your tournament up and running in less than two minutes. - Cross platform support(Windows, Linux).
Mac support will happen when the mac community is ready. - Java Web Start enabled.
The application will always be up to date as long as you have an internet connection.
To run Simple Tournament Director simply click on the link or image below or for a more detailed instruction in case of problems see Installing and running Simple Tournament Director.
Launch Simple Tournament Director
Contact info
If you experience any problems drop off a comment here or send an email to:
{krankulf {at} gmail dot com}. Don't excpect me to answer swiftly as I do have something resembling a life.
Offline version of Simple Tournament Director
Monday, January 26, 2009 9:29:53 AM
If you don't have an internet connection on the computer you'll be using for poker you can use this offline version:
SimpleTournamentDirector.zip
Unzip somewhere and run it by doubleclicking SimpleTournamentDirector.jar or by running the command:
This version will not be automatically updated and file associations will not work. Hence you can't save a setup on your desktop and start Simple Tournament Director by doubleclicking a .lch or .lvl file, you'll have to load it via the leveleditor. Feel free to spread the file to bittorrent trackers if you'd like.
SimpleTournamentDirector.zip
Unzip somewhere and run it by doubleclicking SimpleTournamentDirector.jar or by running the command:
java -jar SimpleTournamentDirector.jar
This version will not be automatically updated and file associations will not work. Hence you can't save a setup on your desktop and start Simple Tournament Director by doubleclicking a .lch or .lvl file, you'll have to load it via the leveleditor. Feel free to spread the file to bittorrent trackers if you'd like.
Useful links
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Home
Takes you to the main page of Simple Tournament Director.
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Launch Simple Tournament Director
Starts the Simple Tournament Director.
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Installing Simple Tournament Director
Description on how to get Simple Tournament Director up and running.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to the most common questions regarding installation and usage of the Simple Tournament Director.
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Offline version
Download a zipfile for use on computers with no internet.
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Known problems and limitations
A list of known problems, limitations and bugs and potential workarounds in the program.
