CourtHive is an Open Source / Open Data initiative to develop components to support the emergence of a standards based ecosystem of services for competition. It began when a parent's desire to participate in Tennis Player Development ran headlong into poor quality data, poor IT investments on the part of governing bodies, and the reality that the dynamics of a fragmented market are such that there is very little collaboration or integration between technology providers. A focus on Data Visualization morphed into an obsession with the production of good quality data and led to the development of a document-based tournament management platform which has ultimately influenced the emergence of the ITF's Tennis Open Data Standards.
Though the focus here was originally 🎾 Tennis, the underlying data structures and tournament management capabilities enabled by these data structures proved applicable to any sport which uses draw structures / brackets ⚽ 🏀 ⛳ 🏅.
Competition Factory is a collection of state engines and associated utilities which comprise all of the business rules necessary to generate and manage tournaments with events/draws/brackets of arbitrary complexity. The Competition Factory is deployed in production in both the USTA and ITA Tournament Desk platforms and has been in production since 2021.
