Hawks - Wraiths Championship Announcement

[Noppadet]

To be honest, how hard is it to automate this? If @7hawk77 and @Noppadet can make a webscraper that harvests TPE data, can't it be modified to collect attribute data? As long as all player pages are kept in a strict formatting, couldn't it work after some wrangling?

@7hawk77 and @37thchamber pretty much covered it - it would be a lot easier to take it off site or something, unless jcink allows source code access to the forum software which I kind of doubt.

What do you guys think of a mobile app? (I'm not volunteering on this just brain storming)

Ideas:
Somehow specify the update thread, and it (the mobile app) makes posts in the thread instead of the actual user/player, perhaps through a moderation level user that could posts in locked threads (i.e.: UpdaterBot). If anyone in the world used Windows Phone I could probably do this, but unfortunately no one does use Windows Phone and I've never done an Android or iPhone app.

A website could do it, but an idea I'd be thinking of would be you open the website, verify identity somehow (a generated unique hash in a profile, along would a username would do it. SomethingAwful forums users use this a lot in their 3rd party sites), and then an update thread, and then an automated post, and then a verification process on TPE earned for updaters, and then a spreadsheet update...

It's a hassle, but it could be done like 37thchamber mentioned. Since we have HTML access in the signatures we could potentially embed the update forum as the top post in the foru. If we could do that then only updaters would have to go off site that would verify TPE earned, and then update the spreadsheet. We'd have to have a user in place again with the embed code (if it even works it may not).

i.e. (my red text says potential database of thread urls and their corresponding TPE):


Edits on all of these would be a bitch unless it had a database to identify an update post belonging to the bot (at least what I'm thinking). Potentially the completed point tasks could just be pasted instead and user embeds would just let users spend TPE. might be a better way of doing it.

Just some ideas. You guys may have better ones for sure.

On topic to the thread:
Unofficially - sorry guys, I think we would have won without the inflated TPE considering the stats of Broadway, but it sucks anyway.