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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdded a research-only design proposal for a Swiss and single-elimination tournament organizer. It documents repository findings, broker and reconnect patterns, rules research, Commander tournament scope, protocol guidance, exclusions, rollout planning, and multiplayer pairing validation. ChangesTournament organizer proposal
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The proposal still leaves important tournament behavior undefined, including how post-pairing drops and two-bye rounds are represented and scored, alongside unresolved validation, standings, durable-state, and cleanup details. These gaps could lead to inconsistent tournament outcomes when implementation begins, so the PR needs explicit owner acceptance or clarification before it is merge-ready. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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329-337: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftDefine cleanup for
InProgressandCompletedtournaments.The plan restricts stale reaping to
Registration, butTournamentManageralso retainsInProgressandCompletedentries. No inactivity policy or retention policy is defined for those states. Abandoned tournaments and completed tournaments can remain in the manager indefinitely. Add explicit cleanup rules for active inactivity and completed-event retention without deleting active human events.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 24-28: Update the finalized-plan requirements associated with the
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In `@BACKLOG.md`:
- Around line 3-7: Remove BACKLOG.md from the upstream-facing branch/PR,
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- Around line 92-95: Replace the boolean fields in LegacyRules with a typed
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- Around line 107-108: Update the Developer-track selection rule to check the
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In `@docs/proposals/tournament-organizer/CONTEXT.md`:
- Around line 64-70: Revise the greenfield statement to scope it exclusively to
crates/lobby-broker: claim that TournamentManager and tournament state are
absent there, without asserting that tournament-related types are absent from
the entire workspace. Preserve the documented reuse of draft-core’s
TournamentFormat and Swiss pairing implementation, and avoid implying new
pairing logic is needed.
In `@docs/proposals/tournament-organizer/PLAN.md`:
- Around line 167-210: Extend TournamentPairing with a stable pairing_id,
persisted outcome/status, and result revision, and add TournamentMeta state for
durable per-player match history or an explicit derivation source used by
ReportMatchResult, rematch detection, standings, opponent tiebreakers, and
replay-safe updates. Replace the lifetime had_bye and had_short_pod booleans in
TournamentPlayer with resettable or count-based state so fairness remains
enforceable across complete tournament cycles, keeping the reusable tournament
logic in core.
- Around line 301-326: Strengthen validate_match_result for head-to-head
pairings: handle bye outcomes separately from PodOutcome::Draw, require
game_wins to contain exactly both paired players with no extras, validate legal
Bo3 score combinations, and require the declared winner to have the higher
score. Preserve generalized pod behavior and MSTR single-game semantics for
pairings with more than two players.
- Around line 213-222: Resolve the undefined arity > 2 behavior for
BracketShape::SingleElimination before implementation: either specify bracket
construction, supported player counts, handling of short pods or byes, winner
advancement, and outcome semantics, or explicitly remove multiplayer single
elimination from v1 scope and update the related planning references. Keep the
existing fixed 8-seat v1 path and strict format-scope guarantees consistent
across the plan and CONTEXT.md.
- Around line 402-414: Update the protocol version instruction in the PR 2 plan
to use the lobby-scoped LOBBY_PROTOCOL_VERSION, currently 1, rather than
PROTOCOL_VERSION. Specify the correct lobby-version bump and remove the outdated
13-to-14 general protocol guidance, preserving the existing protocol version for
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In `@docs/proposals/tournament-organizer/PLAN.md`:
- Around line 329-337: Expand the tournament cleanup plan to define explicit
retention policies for InProgress and Completed entries in TournamentManager:
remove abandoned active tournaments only after genuine inactivity while
preserving active human events, and remove completed tournaments after a defined
completion-based retention period. Keep stale fixed-time reaping restricted to
Registration and specify how check_expired or equivalent cleanup distinguishes
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Require Step 0 evidence in the finalized plan.
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In @.claude/skills/engine-planner/SKILL.md around lines 24 - 28, Update the
finalized-plan requirements associated with the hard-gate card verification step
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comparison result. Require the plan to fail closed when the lookup fails or
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Remove the fork-only backlog from upstream-facing PRs.
At Lines 3-7, this file states that it must never appear in a PR to phase-rs/phase. The current cohort adds BACKLOG.md to the PR. Branching future work from origin/main cannot remove this file from the current diff. Keep it only on the fork's main, or remove it before merging upstream.
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Replace boolean legacy-rule fields with a typed rule set.
At Lines 92-95, LegacyRules uses boolean fields for a core format axis. This does not provide exhaustive, typed rule composition. Define a LegacyRule enum and a typed LegacyRuleSet containing independently selectable variants. Apply the same schema in the prompt at Lines 274-279.
As per path instructions, this codebase requires typed enums over stringly-typed or boolean designs and composable building blocks.
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Current-head changes requested — protected instruction paths
Reviewed head cf51ad03639dc6462e16f24023645d77c9e862d0.
This external-contributor PR modifies protected instruction surfaces: .claude/skills/engine-planner/SKILL.md (new planning gate), CLAUDE.md (new global contributor instruction), and docs/AI-CONTRIBUTOR.md (new contributor workflow directive). Those paths are a security and governance hard stop under the contribution policy, independent of the apparent intent of the edits.
Please remove these protected-path changes and submit the tournament proposal separately from current main. No implementation/design review was performed on the remaining proposal while this hard stop is present.
…hase-rs#5314) Rebuilt from a clean origin/main base after the maintainer flagged the prior push (from a branch cut off the fork's own older research branch, not upstream main) as touching protected instruction paths -- CLAUDE.md, docs/AI-CONTRIBUTOR.md, .claude/skills/engine-planner/SKILL.md, and the fork-only BACKLOG.md -- purely as stale-branch drift, not intentional content. This commit carries only the four intended proposal docs, cut fresh from origin/main per this repo's own documented convention (see BACKLOG.md's own header on the fork). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMa6DrxXyFHBdGxz3uLgvM
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Required: refresh the protocol-version design evidence
At current head 9067387d3230d55aabe6543b31e2b13b77d30018, the proposal's protocol guidance is internally stale and would direct an incompatible implementation:
docs/proposals/tournament-organizer/CONTEXT.md:105-128says its current-main recheck foundPROTOCOL_VERSION33 andLOBBY_PROTOCOL_VERSION1.docs/proposals/tournament-organizer/PLAN.md:402-414then instructs PR 2 to bump the general protocol "from 13 to 14".
Current main has independent PROTOCOL_VERSION 35 at crates/lobby-broker/src/protocol.rs:135 and LOBBY_PROTOCOL_VERSION 2 at :188; even this PR's own base snapshot has 34 and 1 at :104/:133. The documents correctly identify the architectural rule—new lobby-only tournament messages must bump the lobby-scoped version—but the asserted values, line references, and rollout instruction are no longer true.
Please re-verify every time-sensitive protocol constant/file-line claim against a named current-main commit (or explicitly pin the research as a historical snapshot), and update PR 2 to require the correct LOBBY_PROTOCOL_VERSION bump without changing the unrelated game protocol. The single-elimination multiplayer scope at PLAN.md:213-222 also remains explicitly in scope but undesigned; either specify its bracket/advancement semantics or exclude it from v1 before implementation.
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In `@docs/proposals/tournament-organizer/PLAN.md`:
- Around line 295-299: Define short-pod tiebreak contributions in the
match-history model: for a 3-player pod in a 4-player event, add a synthetic
opponent at the minimum match-win-percentage floor while continuing to exclude
bye rounds. Explicitly specify whether this synthetic entry applies only to
opponents’ match-win percentage or also to the separate opponents’ average
match-points calculation, preserving the applicable MTG rules.
- Around line 248-256: Revise the “Pod-size fallback, arity > 2 only” section to
define valid partitions for every active-player count, allowing multiple short
pods when required rather than limiting each round to one. Ensure examples such
as arity 4 produce 3+3+3 for 9 players and 4+3+3 for 10 players, and specify
reusable fairness accounting so players are not assigned short pods again before
others under the had_short_pod rule; retain the existing arity = 2 bye behavior.
In `@docs/proposals/tournament-organizer/RESEARCH.md`:
- Around line 517-533: Revise the “Commander/multiplayer pod tournaments”
section to remove the claim that Magic’s official tournament-rules body
publishes MSTR. Identify MSTR as an unofficial external convention, cite a
primary Wizards source only if verified, and state that the proposal
intentionally adopts MSTR; update the source and cross-verification wording to
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…ol-version citations and undesigned pod SE PLAN.md's PR 2 description still said "bump PROTOCOL_VERSION from 13 to 14" -- stale even against this doc's own CONTEXT.md finding #4, which had already retracted that framing in favor of bumping LOBBY_PROTOCOL_VERSION instead. PLAN.md was simply never updated to match. Re-verified against current main (commit d9c2a78): PROTOCOL_VERSION is now 35, LOBBY_PROTOCOL_VERSION still 1 -- both numbers already stale relative to what CONTEXT.md previously cited (33/1), confirming these are fast-moving constants. Rewrote both docs to state the durable architectural rule (bump LOBBY_PROTOCOL_VERSION by one from its then-current value, never PROTOCOL_VERSION) rather than citing a number that will be wrong again by implementation time. Also resolves the "pod-based single elimination is in scope but undesigned" gap Matt flagged: bracket/advancement semantics for a multi-player pod bracket are a real, unresolved design question, not a mechanical extension of 1v1 SE's existing 8-seat gate. Excluded from v1 -- BracketShape::SingleElimination ships for arity=HEAD_TO_HEAD only, CreateTournament rejects the SingleElimination+non-head-to-head-arity combination at construction time. Commander/multiplayer pods get Swiss only in v1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMa6DrxXyFHBdGxz3uLgvM
…tocol-version citations and undesigned pod SE Mirrors PR phase-rs#7718 commit dcfe4f0. PLAN.md's protocol-version bump instruction was stale even against this doc's own earlier retraction; rewrote it as a durable architectural rule (bump LOBBY_PROTOCOL_VERSION by one from its then-current value, never PROTOCOL_VERSION) rather than a hardcoded number that keeps going stale. Also excludes pod-based single elimination from v1 -- bracket/advancement semantics for a multi-player pod bracket are a real, unresolved design question, not a mechanical extension of 1v1 SE's existing 8-seat gate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMa6DrxXyFHBdGxz3uLgvM
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- Around line 220-232: Update the pod-based single-elimination section in
PLAN.md to state the v1 decision as resolved: v1 supports SingleElimination only
with arity equal to HEAD_TO_HEAD, while CreateTournament rejects other arities
at construction time. Remove language describing this as a live unresolved
product question, while keeping future bracket design open if appropriate and
preserving the Swiss-only scope for Commander/multiplayer pods.
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Required: make the multiplayer plan internally implementable and accurately sourced
Reviewed current head dcfe4f03cbeb7519e1571dcc4c3798fabf67cc59.
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PLAN.md:258-266and:393-397require a singlearity - 1short pod for every non-divisible Commander-pod field, but that partition cannot seat the stated 9- and 10-player acceptance cases at arity four. A single 3-player pod leaves two players after a 4-player pod for 9 players, and three after a 4-player pod for 10; valid partitions require3+3+3and4+3+3, respectively. This also conflicts with the later "at most one short pod" scope at:492-495. Define a general partition algorithm that permits the necessary number of short pods, define fairness accounting for that case, and update the tests/scope language to match. -
RESEARCH.md:519-533characterizes the Multiplayer Addendum as published by Magic's official tournament-rules body and a mirror of official text. The cited source itself states that it is an unofficial document written by independent judges, not Wizards documentation. Please describe it as an external convention intentionally adopted by this proposal (or replace it with a verified primary Wizards source), and adjust claims that depend on its official authority.
The prior protocol correction is now sound: at the named d9c2a7874, crates/lobby-broker/src/protocol.rs:110/:139 have the documented 35/1 values, and PLAN.md:418-431 correctly directs an implementation-time LOBBY_PROTOCOL_VERSION bump only. The v1 SingleElimination construction-time exclusion is also now specified at PLAN.md:220-232; remove the remaining wording that calls that already-made v1 scope decision a live unresolved question while updating the surrounding plan.
…rcing accuracy (matthewevans) Real design bug found: the short-pod fallback capped at "one short pod per round," but that partition cannot seat 9 or 10 players at arity 4 (9 needs three 3-pods, 10 needs one 4-pod plus two 3-pods). Replaced with a general partition algorithm -- find the smallest number of short pods b such that n - b*(arity-1) is a non-negative multiple of arity -- which generalizes to any arity and correctly produces 3+3+3 for 9 players, 4+3+3 for 10. Fairness tracking now spreads across however many players a round actually shorts, not just one. Updated the PR1 acceptance-criteria test bullet to assert the 9/10-player cases explicitly. Also corrects a real sourcing-accuracy error: RESEARCH.md/CONTEXT.md/PLAN.md described the Multiplayer Addendum to the MTR as an official Wizards of the Coast document / "Magic's own tournament-rules body." Re-checked the source page directly -- its own disclaimer states it is unofficial, written by independent judges, explicitly not WotC documentation. Rewrote every reference to describe it as an external, community-authored convention this proposal deliberately adopts to fill a real gap (the official MTR has no multiplayer section), never as Wizards-published policy. None of the substantive scoring/tiebreak/pairing facts change -- only how the source's authority is described. Also removes a leftover contradiction: PLAN.md's SE-exclusion section called the already-decided v1 scope exclusion "a live, unresolved product question" in the same paragraph that decided it. Clarified: the scope decision (excluded from v1) is final; only the underlying design question (what pod-SE would look like if built later) remains open as future work. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMa6DrxXyFHBdGxz3uLgvM
…sourcing accuracy (matthewevans) Mirrors PR phase-rs#7718 commit fcb2221. Short-pod fallback capped at "one short pod per round" cannot seat 9 or 10 players at arity 4; replaced with a general partition algorithm producing the correct minimum-short-pod count for any player total. Also corrects an overstated sourcing claim -- the Multiplayer Addendum to the MTR is an unofficial, judge-community-authored convention, not a Wizards of the Coast document; rewrote every reference accordingly. Removes a leftover contradiction calling the already-decided pod-SE v1 exclusion "a live, unresolved question." Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMa6DrxXyFHBdGxz3uLgvM
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The prior two blockers are resolved: the partition now correctly permits the required number of short pods (including 3+3+3 for nine and 4+3+3 for ten at arity four), and the Multiplayer Addendum is accurately presented as an adopted unofficial convention.
The current proposal still needs the following before PR 1 can be implemented safely:
PLAN.md:100-132exposes unrestrictedMatchArity(pub u8)and derives2 * arity.0 - 1inu8;0/1conflict with the stated pairing model and values above 128 overflow. Specify validated construction/deserialization (including positive scoring denominator) and use checked/wider arithmetic.PLAN.md:171-203stores only a pairing round and player list. It defines neither a pairing identity/status/outcome nor durable result/opponent history, althoughPLAN.md:253-311requires rematch avoidance and:313-344derives standings/tiebreaks from prior opponents. Define the authoritative persisted/derived result model and replay-safe result update before implementation.PLAN.md:276-311identifies arity-fourn ∈ {1, 2, 5}as having no full/short-pod partition but merely says they fall through to bye assignment. Define the complete behavior for zero and undersized active fields (including drops): whether the round is prevented/ended or how many byes may be issued, how standings represent each player, and tests for each case. A generic preference for unassigned players is insufficient to choose between materially different tournament outcomes.PLAN.md:349-369accepts an empty/partialgame_winsmap and does not distinguish a one-player bye from a reported draw/decisive match. For head-to-head, define and validate exactly the two participant keys, legal Bo3 scores, and the winner; model a bye as its own automatic result. Preserve the intentionally different pod path.CONTEXT.md:64-70still claims no tournament-related type exists anywhere in the workspace, contradicting its laterdraft-coreSwiss-pairing precedent. Limit the greenfield claim to missing lobby-broker tournament state so the plan does not steer implementers toward needless duplication.
These are plan-contract gaps, not CI failures. Current CI is still pending; no direct build was run.
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The partition algorithm's own math correctly identifies n in {1,2,5} at
arity 4 as having no all-{3,4} partition, but the doc only said these
"fall through to bye assignment" without specifying what actually happens.
Specifies each explicitly: n=1 is a single bye (no pod); n=2 is the one
accepted multiple-bye exception (no valid pod or short-pod partition
exists at all); n=5 resolves to one 4-pod plus a single bye, not the n=2
multi-bye case. Also specifies that mid-tournament drops producing these
counts use the identical resolution -- dropped players are simply excluded
from the active count, no separate mechanism.
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…pod behavior (CodeRabbit) Mirrors PR phase-rs#7718 commit bcf21da. Specifies n=1 (single bye), n=2 (the one accepted multiple-bye exception), and n=5 (one 4-pod plus single bye) explicitly for arity 4, plus mid-tournament drops producing these counts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMa6DrxXyFHBdGxz3uLgvM
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- Around line 326-334: The tournament plan must explicitly define how a player
dropping after pairing generation is resolved before the next round: specify the
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The new explicit n = 1/2/5 resolutions and test requirements at PLAN.md:303-344 / :428-438 resolve the previous undefined-small-field finding. The plan still cannot safely guide the core implementation because these current contracts remain missing:
PLAN.md:100-132:MatchArity(pub u8)remains unvalidated and2 * arity.0 - 1remainsu8arithmetic. Define a validated construction/deserialization boundary (including the valid arity range and positive scoring denominator) and checked/wider default computation. As written, arity zero/one conflicts with the pairing model and values above 128 overflow.PLAN.md:171-203,:253-377: the only persisted pairing fields are round and player keys. Define stable pairing identity, status/outcome and the authoritative history/derivation used for rematch avoidance, standings, opponent tiebreaks, and replay-safe result updates. The current sketch cannot retain a reported result at all.PLAN.md:326-334covers drops before the next pairing step only. Define the state transition and standings/result treatment when a player drops after a round's pairings have been emitted, before the next round; either forbid that timing or specify its automatic settlement and add a discriminating test.PLAN.md:382-404still accepts empty or partial head-to-headgame_winsand conflates one-player byes with reportablePodOutcomes. Require exactly the two participant keys and legal Bo3/winner consistency for a head-to-head result, and represent a bye as its own automatic outcome while keeping multiplayer semantics distinct.CONTEXT.md:64-70still claims no tournament-related type exists elsewhere in the workspace, contradicting the document'sdraft-coreSwiss-pairing precedent. Restrict the greenfield statement to missinglobby-brokertournament state.
Current CI is green; these are design correctness gaps, not CI failures. No direct build was run.
…tory, drop-timing forfeits, tightened result validation (matthewevans) Five real implementation-blocking gaps fixed: 1. MatchArity(pub u8) had no validated construction and 2*arity.0-1 could overflow u8 above arity 128. Made the field private, added a validated new()/TryFrom<u8> constructor rejecting 0/1 and values above 128, wired through #[serde(try_from = "u8")] so a malformed wire payload is rejected at deserialization. 2. TournamentPairing only stored round+players -- no stable identity, no durable outcome slot, even though rematch avoidance and tiebreak computation both require querying prior results/opponents. Added PairingId, an outcome: Option<PairingOutcome> slot, and made had_bye/had_short_pod/prior_opponents derived queries over the full pairing history instead of separately-mutated stored fields -- this is what makes a corrected/re-reported result "replay-safe" (report_result is a single overwrite; every derived view recomputes fresh). 3. Drops after a round's pairings are generated but before they're reported were unspecified. Specified explicitly: a head-to-head pairing auto-settles as a forfeit win for the remaining player; a pod pairing stays Pending and plays out normally, with validate_match_result now rejecting a reported winner who has since dropped; a pod reduced to one active player also auto-forfeits. 4. validate_match_result's Bo3 check only ran "if game_wins is non-empty," so an empty or single-key map silently passed. Now requires exactly the two participant keys with a legal completed-Bo3 tally for head-to-head, and requires an empty game_wins for pods (rejecting stray data with no meaning there). Bye/Forfeit are pulled into their own PairingOutcome variants, structurally distinct from a client-reported PodOutcome. 5. CONTEXT.md's greenfield claim overreached to "no tournament-related type exists anywhere in the workspace," contradicting its own draft-core precedent citation. Narrowed to lobby-broker specifically. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMa6DrxXyFHBdGxz3uLgvM
…history, drop-timing forfeits, tightened result validation (matthewevans) Mirrors PR phase-rs#7718 commit 79ed7df. Validated MatchArity construction (rejects 0/1, caps at 128 to prevent scoring-formula overflow), durable pairing history with stable PairingId + derived (not stored) had_bye/had_short_pod/ prior_opponents, explicit drop-after-pairing-generation forfeit resolution, tightened head-to-head Bo3 validation, and a narrowed greenfield claim in CONTEXT.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMa6DrxXyFHBdGxz3uLgvM
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Required: validate organizer-supplied scoring at the creation boundary
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docs/proposals/tournament-organizer/PLAN.md:161-166 exposes all three ScoringPolicy fields as public u8s with derived Deserialize, while :153-157 explicitly makes that policy organizer-overridable at CreateTournament. The new validated boundary currently covers only MatchArity at :100-148; ScoringPolicy can therefore deserialize win_points: 0.
That is not a safe value for the proposed design: PLAN.md:185-192 and :518-520 define the shared tiebreak floor as 1.0 / scoring.win_points as f64. A zero value reaches an invalid denominator instead of being rejected when external tournament configuration enters the broker.
Please add a validated ScoringPolicy construction/deserialization path and route the CreateTournament payload through it, rejecting win_points == 0 at that boundary. Add the corresponding payload-level rejection test alongside the existing MatchArity deserialization case. This review does not require a broader ordering rule among win, draw, and loss points: the plan's explicitly supported organizer overrides mean any such policy would need separately cited requirements.
Recommendation: request changes — make the configuration boundary reject zero win points before tiebreak computation is reachable.
…sing the win_points=0 gap (matthewevans) MatchArity got validated construction in the prior round, but ScoringPolicy -- equally organizer-overridable at CreateTournament, and equally feeding a division (the tiebreak floor is 1.0 / scoring.win_points) -- didn't. win_points: 0 was fully expressible via plain derived Deserialize, reaching an invalid (infinite) floor once tiebreak computation ran. Added ScoringPolicy::new(win_points, draw_points, loss_points) rejecting win_points == 0, private fields with getters, and a RawScoringPolicy deserialization target via #[serde(try_from/into)] mirroring the MatchArity pattern. Deliberately does not impose any ordering between win/draw/loss points, per review scope -- organizer overrides are explicitly supported and a stricter rule would need its own separately-cited requirement. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMa6DrxXyFHBdGxz3uLgvM
…closing the win_points=0 gap (matthewevans) Mirrors PR phase-rs#7718 commit faa0b00. ScoringPolicy::new() rejects win_points == 0 (the tiebreak floor's denominator), mirroring the MatchArity validated-construction pattern from the prior round. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMa6DrxXyFHBdGxz3uLgvM
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Changes requested — current proposal does not compile at its promised bounds
Reviewed current head faa0b0078dd3e66ee9fb3085ab6c5f009fe5515f.
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docs/proposals/tournament-organizer/PLAN.md:216-221acceptsMatchArity::new(128)and promiseswin_points: 255, but computes2 * arity.0 - 1asu8. The intermediate2 * 128overflows before the subtraction, so the proposed implementation panics in debug builds or wraps in release rather than producing 255. Compute in a wider type (then perform a checked conversion) or use checkedu8arithmetic, and retain a boundary test for arity 128. -
docs/proposals/tournament-organizer/PLAN.md:161-180derivesSerializeforScoringPolicywhile specifying#[serde(into = "RawScoringPolicy")], butRawScoringPolicyderives onlyDeserialize. Serde's generatedSerializepath must serialize theintotarget, so this proposed type does not compile. DeriveSerializeforRawScoringPolicy(or remove theintoconversion and provide an equivalent serializable representation), with a serialization round-trip test for the validated boundary.
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The validated ScoringPolicy::new/TryFrom<RawScoringPolicy> boundary correctly addresses the earlier zero-win_points configuration concern; these blockers are specifically the current overflow and serialization contracts.
Recommendation: request changes — make the documented PR-1 shape compile and satisfy its accepted arity-128 boundary before implementation begins.
…Serialize derive (matthewevans) Two real compile-time bugs in the prior round's own fix: 1. default_for_arity computed 2 * arity.0 - 1 entirely in u8. The final value (255 at arity 128) fits, but the intermediate 2*128=256 doesn't -- it overflows before the subtraction runs. Fixed by computing in u16 and converting down via a checked u8::try_from (documented as safe given MatchArity::new's existing 128 cap, not a silent `as` truncation). 2. RawScoringPolicy only derived Deserialize, but ScoringPolicy's #[serde(into = "RawScoringPolicy")] requires the target to implement Serialize (serde's generated Serialize impl converts to it and serializes that). Added the missing derive. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMa6DrxXyFHBdGxz3uLgvM
…ng Serialize derive (matthewevans) Mirrors PR phase-rs#7718 commit bf299b3. default_for_arity now computes in u16 with a checked conversion down to u8 (the intermediate 2*128=256 overflows u8 even though the final 255 fits). RawScoringPolicy now derives Serialize, required by ScoringPolicy's #[serde(into = ...)] attribute. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMa6DrxXyFHBdGxz3uLgvM
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Blocked — the proposal fixes the prior authority/pairing concerns, but its tournament lifecycle still has no durable cleanup contract.
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[MED] Tournament lifetime cleanup remains contradictory and undefined. Evidence: docs/proposals/tournament-organizer/PLAN.md:668-676 limits check_expired to Registration, says an InProgress tournament is reaped only by “genuine inactivity,” but defines neither that policy nor its owning transition; Completed has no retention/reap rule. The proposed manager retains those records. Define an explicit active-inactivity rule that cannot reap live human events, a completed-retention period/action, the owning operation, and lifecycle tests—or state intentional permanent retention with its operational bound.
Recommendation: complete the retention lifecycle before implementation review can close.
Summary
Design proposal (research + plan, no engine or frontend code) for a Swiss/single-elimination tournament organizer built on top of the existing casual lobby (
lobby-broker) — motivated by the lack of any organized multi-round event support today.Follows up on #4612 (open proposal) and #4615 (closed, unmerged implementation attempt where review found real bugs), via discussion #5314.
TournamentManagerextendslobby-brokeradditively (Brokergains one field,ConnStategains token-shaped fields,LobbyClientMessage/LobbyServerMessagegain additive variants) — no existing lobby behavior changes.draft_session.rsreconnect precedent — this is the direct fix for feat(lobby): Swiss tournament organizer for lobby broker (#4612) #4615's finding that closing/reopening a browser tab dropped tournament authority.draft-core's existing 1v1 pairing already uses, and independently confirmed as the official approach the Multiplayer Addendum to the MTR itself recommends for pod pairing.MatchArityparameter rather than a forked format: the Multiplayer Addendum's win-point formula (2n - 1for pod sizen) collapses to MTR's existing 3/1/0 atn = 2, so this is one generalized design, not two.What's in this PR
docs/proposals/tournament-organizer/README.md— orientation + linksdocs/proposals/tournament-organizer/CONTEXT.md— why this matters, re-verified architecture findings, open questions, Commander/multiplayer scopedocs/proposals/tournament-organizer/RESEARCH.md— full evidence trail (codebase tracing,draft-corepairing precedent, real-world platform research, MTR/MSTR citations)docs/proposals/tournament-organizer/PLAN.md— proposed schema, rollout sequencingTest plan
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