The next and final major change to the Community version of the Petanque App is now out.

This version, 2.7.0, now includes the Triples Super Melee with a bit of a 'twist'. Like the Doubles Super Melee you can give Players not able to be fitted into the Draw every Round a Bye, or a Sit Out. The terminology for this has been changed a bit to Rate Byes (as 13-7) or not (No Bye Rating = Sit out, no score).

But in addition, the Triples Super Melee has the option to Prevent Byes, and then the Draw will use as many Triples Teams as possible, but then to avoid any Players missing out it will also include Doubles Teams (if required) so all Players get a game each Round.

A couple of minor glitches in the earlier versions have also been fixed - for example, the failure of the Deactivate Lanes action for parts of an Elimination Event has been fixed, and all works as expected now.

To try and avoid confusion the Win Points for any Event are retained as Points for Win (default = 13), but the Points to Win has been changed to Game Points (default = 1), and this brings the Game Points in line with their use in the Ranking Table.

There is still a bit of work to check and correct some of the descriptions that lie behind all the terms you will find listed, but as far as the overall program goes this is the final major change to what we will call the Community version - you are getting it at no cost!

A new manual is attached but is not vastly different from the previous one, but with a few obvious 'howlers' corrected.

Peter Wells

Manual