[RMS-Chef]

First, thanks for you work. I always appreciate anyone putting their valuable time into hacks.

I am interested in this, but for Image/PhotoShop Battles rather than rap/text.
There are a few things that are holding me back from an install though. Things I think would make this better:

1. Ability for group only to start battles, and hence the first person in the "first vs. second" also be editable and not always who is creating the battle. I was thinking something like having "referees" (basically mod group with battle admin powers) to set up battles and finalize. I realize that forum permissions could handle this with "can post new threads" but I don't think a 3rd person can set up a battle between 2 others.

2. Having a set amount of votes to win, I just don't think that is the best way to handle it and I believe this is the biggest shortcoming. It needs to have the ability to accept and tally votes until a mod/admin/ref closes the poll/battle, then the winner be determined.

3. Some way (maybe a pop-up memberlist) to make sure you are putting someone's correct username or maybe the option to use ID's instead? On a gaming ladder that I own, our webmaster has it so users can login with either name or ID so I am sure it could be done.

What happens if you set up a battle and use a non-existent username? When I tried, it let me with no errors.

Thanks again for the hack and I will follow diligently to see development.