Description

As in international mixed-martial arts referee, and as any self-respecting engineer, I have always hated the 10 (ten!) minutes of my life that I have to spend manually filling my score-cards with data from a fight-card. Hopefully, with 15+ hours of automation work, I can save 10 minutes of somebody's day, once a month or so!

To account for this, I have made a series of Excel macros with VBA, which took a list, and populated an excel template with the appropriate data. However, I am unable to share this with my fellow referees, because it turns out that people don't know how to use Excel, and much less launch a macro.

Therefore, my goal for this hackweek is to make a stand-alone, compiled executable which can do this function without the need for Excel. To allow the user to import a list of fights, and generate a ready-to-print pdf file with all the information properly filled.

Here is the current state of the project: https://github.com/Chubykalo/MMapp

Goals

For this hackweek:

• Create a score-card template - Done
• Create a single PDF file with all score-cards filled with data from a fight list in .csv format - Done
• Create a simple GUI interface for this process.
• Build the program into an executable for Windows (as I assume most referees use Windows)

Future goals:

• Account for different score-card templates from different organizations.
• Add a functionality to export event results.
• Create a database of finished events.
• Build for linux.

Resources

For now, this is all being developed in Python.