Free 15 script

Major Features:

1. Simple protocol to communicate with the library through request/reply objects
2. Queries of data coming from the Scheme definitions (game, team and team result fields, date format etc)
3. Queries of interpreted data (table of standings, game schedule with results, teams etc)
4. Notion of the "local team ID" that allows definitions of future stages without knowing real teams
5. Ability to query the information for stages whose teams hasnt been determined yet
6. Support for different group formulas (round robin, game count, playoffs)
7. Support for excessive games (those in the schedule but not necessary to play, like in a playoff stage)
8. Support for carry-forward game results, and incidentally, predefined games results
9. Game schedule verification
10. Support for dynamic creation of (parts of) the game schedule
11. Support for sorting conflicts within a group (when the rules fail to determine exact team positioning) and providing manual resolution for such conflicts
12. Summary groups (one per stage) provided by the library
13. Support for creating custom groups on the fly using team and/or game filtering procedures defined in Scheme; information on the interface of available filters
14. Loading and interpreting more than one tournament at a time
15. Saving and restoring tournament state

Supporting tens of thousands of connections is clearly realistic with todays hardware. Its mode of operation makes its integration into existing architectures very easy and riskless, while still offering the possibility not to expose fragile web servers to the Net.