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CiviCRM for a law school's mock trial/moot court competitions
September 02, 2008, 11:17:49 pm
Hi all,
  As an alumnus from Texas Tech Law's Board of Barristers http://bob.law.ttu.edu, I'm researching whether CiviCRM can accomplish some of the things they'd need for the organization's legal advocacy competitions throughout the school year.  I know the list below may be a pretty tall order and very specific, but its worth a shot

Competitions
  • online date/time restricted registration for competitors & initial payment (civievent & civimember - check)
  • an entry method where each team submits witnesses for each round
  • assign witnesses to each round, ensuring that the team who submitted the witnesses' names is not the team they are witnessing for
  • a Board members section where they can volunteer to judge competitions, with number of time/day slots based on number of competitors
  • a system where the competitors are broken into brackets for the competition based on random number generator
  • each team bracket is assigned either one or three Board Member(s) as a judge(s) for the initial rounds (prelims - best out of three initial rounds)
  • a method for distributing e-copies of the fact pattern (side specific, i.e. differentiating between who is plaintiff and who is defendant for each round)
  • the ability input scores for each round which allow the winners to advance to octas, quarters, semis, and the final rounds with each judge assigned conflict-checked to ensure they haven't judged the competitors previously
  • a conflict-check table where each board member can enter in competitors for whom they are conflicted (past dating relationship, best friends, etc) which is only visible to the site admins and the individual Board member
  • a confllict-check table where competitors can submit possible conflicts with current Board members, which is only visible to site admins and the individual competitor
  • the ability to possibly move judges around based on last minute or unforeseen conflicts
  • the results of each round to be posted online
  • a cumulative score for each competitor (5 points for entering the competition, 10 points for advancing each round, 10 points for winning and 5 points for best oralist) tracked over multiple competitions

The rest of the functions we need should be solidly met by either CiviCRM or a Drupal module.  If CiviCRM can't accomplish this (without heavy mod'ing), do you know of any other open-source (or relatively cheap, since the budget is pretty limited as a student organization) app that could?

Thanks in advance!
~Russell

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Re: CiviCRM for a law school's mock trial/moot court competitions
September 03, 2008, 02:07:04 am

I dont think CiviCRM is appropriate for these requirements. I suspect you will need to write a fair amount of custom code. am not aware of any open source app that meets those needs (which seem very specific)

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