Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:05:35 +0700WeeblyWed, 21 Oct 2009 22:30:17 +0700http://www.banterbox.com/1/post/2009/10/moving-into-the-cloud.htmlToday tourlegends.com will move from a server-based solution onto a cloud-based infrastructure. Regretably there will be some unavoidable downtime during the upgrading.

This change means our site visitors will continue to enjoy a fast-loading site because we'll be able to react more quickly to the growing number of visitors. Our new scalable infrastructure will allow us to add additional bandwidth and storage more easily.

As an additional benefit we are looking at increasing the allocated photo sharing capacity so you can share more photos with your team mates and sports friends.

Come and join us on our new cloud!]]>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:40:50 +0700http://www.banterbox.com/1/post/2009/10/sports-events-calendar.htmlFrom today sports teams who are keen to tour and participate in new sports events have one central place to find out what’s happening and where – the tourlegends calendar. There is no need to register to browse this useful calendar which allows filtering by sport, type of tournament, country, month and year. In addition interested teams can contact organizers directly via the tourlegends web form. Registered teams can also create free tour profiles to help them get organized, import their fixtures and to share their photos, videos and banter. 

“The fun, camaraderie, excitement and lasting memories of sports tours are often unforgettable for all involved. tourlegends.com seeks to make the experience even more memorable and easier to organize” says Nellie Rogers, its founder.

Promoting a tournament or a league and attracting a diverse range of teams to participate is a challenge for any organizer. However from today there is a new channel available and any organizer can add their tournament details on tourlegends for free. Moreover there is no requirement to register in order to list! 

Tournament organizers that do choose to register will find there are many advantages such as: collection of tournament fees online via our partner PayPal, generate and allow teams to import fixtures and much more! Registered or not, all tournament profiles are fully search engine optimized so internet users can easily find listings on tourlegends using any search engine such as Google, Yahoo, Bing etc. 

 So next time you’re trying to find sports events for your team or promoting your event to attract sports teams – start at the tourlegends calendar!]]>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:11:47 +0700http://www.banterbox.com/1/post/2009/10/create-a-fixtures-schedule-in-minutes.htmlEver tried to quickly create a fixtures schedule for a sports event or sports league (ladder)? Not the easiest job, right? Wouldn’t it be great if you could just type in the schedule type (round robin or knock-out), the team names, sports venue names and when you press submit the schedule would just pop out? You can now on tourlegends.com! Try our new fixtures generator and create a schedule within minutes then export to Excel – no need to register! However if you do register (for free!) then participating teams can easily import their fixtures into their own club calendars and league fixture lists. This cuts down on double-entries, typos and confusion! 

It gets even better when you organize a tournament! If you add start time, end time, fixture duration, interval (between games) time then you not only get the fixture list but also a timed match schedule for your tournament! Next invite all the participating teams to add themselves to your tournament and create their tour profile to which they can automatically pull the fixtures you created. No double-entries, no typos, no hassle! Oh and for added visibility the fixtures appear in all club calendars, so if you make any fixture changes they are automatically updated everywhere and an email is sent to everyone participating. So easy, so ‘I wish I had done this earlier’ and completely free! 

In addition participating teams can take advantage of our player availability management tool. The captain or coach simply sends out one email to their entire team for all fixtures and players respond ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ online. The players can view the games information on-line at any time cutting down on confusion and request for repeat information: ‘Where are we playing?’  -  ‘What time does it start?’ etc. It’s a change so be tough! Don’t entertain requests but get your players to navigate to tourlegends.com instead of bugging you… 

Try the fixtures generator today and you’ll see you will never again have to puzzle out your fixtures by hand!


 ]]>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0700http://www.banterbox.com/1/post/2009/09/take-the-pain-out-of-subs-collection-with-the-player-registration-module-prm.htmlWe all know how difficult subs can be to collect from new and existing players - each new season chasing down subs or tournament fees takes enormous effort and can be very time consuming.

Now with tourlegends Player Registration Module you can speed up the process for you and your Club members and supporters, with these great features:

·         A facility to register your players and supporters in one place and collect key information for contacting and for administration purposes (eg phone number, shirt size etc)

·         A secure, on-line payment module, using PayPal, which links with major credit cards, giving the players and supporters no excuses not to complete payment of their subs on-line - now

·         An option to pay for the whole year or on a periodic basis with reminders

·         A platform to take payment for adhoc events, such as balls, parties, special tournaments etc

 To start, simply register your club on tourlegends and add the PRM module to your profile!

For more information check out the PRM Guide.]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:04:45 +0700http://www.banterbox.com/1/post/2009/08/facebook-api.htmlHere at tourlegends we are fully aware that social networking is more fun when you are able to connect easily with your friends. Hence we’re integrating even more with the largest social networking site of all – Facebook. From today you can find out exactly which of your FB friends are already using tourlegends. Simply sign-in with your FB login credentials and select ‘Find Friends’ http://www.tourlegends.com/profile/search-users-profile.html].

Got sporty FB friends that aren’t on tourlegends yet? Invite them today!]]>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0700http://www.banterbox.com/1/post/2009/07/things-on-the-horizon.htmlThe tourlegends team has been busy behind the scenes over the past few weeks developing new ideas to enhance the site and tools to make the lives of team organizers just that bit easier.

In the final stages of development and due to be released in time for the new soccer season throughout Europe is a fantasy soccer application.Creating a fantasy competition for your club is a great way to add some spice to the season as well as raise funds for the club.

There is much more on the horizon so stay tuned....

]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:32:24 +0700http://www.banterbox.com/1/post/2009/06/ashes-fantasy-cricket-on-tourlegends.htmlAs if the upcoming Ashes series between arch rivals England and Australia which starts in Cardiff in a little over a weeks' time isn't going to be exciting enough, tourlegends has launced the 'Ashes Fantasy Cricket League'.

This exciting fantasy competition gives you the opportunity to select and manage your very own fantasy XI and test your skills against hundreds of other players in the competition.

To enter your team follow the link below:


http://www.tourlegends.com/community/fantasyLeagues.html

]]>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:59:22 +0700http://www.banterbox.com/1/post/2009/06/more-opportunites-to-share-on-tourlegendscom.htmltourlegends users now have more opportunities to share with the latest release of Facebook Connect - an application allowing tourlegends members to publish information directly to Facebook.

In addition to the functionality released with its launch last week, Facebook Connect users now can publish stories to Facebook when they:

- Create a Fantasy League Competition
- Associate themselves with a club
- Add themseleves to a tour
- Add their club to a tournament

 

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:04:25 +0700http://www.banterbox.com/1/post/2009/06/sharing-your-sporting-exploits-with-your-fb-friends.htmlAlthough many of our tourlegends users support the phrase 'what goes on tour, stays on tour..!' - ultimately most of us also like to show off just a little!

For those users who can't resist sharing their sporting and touring exploits with 200+ million users on Facebook, we have now implemented Facebook Connect - an application whereby users of both sites can 'sync' their accounts allowing them to selectively (!) publish photos, stories and status updates from tourlegends to Facebook.

As of today tourlegends users can now share the following actions with their FB friends:  

- A change in their status update
- Create a club
- Create a tournament
- Create a tour
- Add a photo to the user profile
- Create a one-time event (social etc)
- Create a recurring event (i.e. weekly training)
- Create a fixture list (i.e. a league table/ladder)

Users connect their tourlegends and facebook accounts simply by clicking the Facebook 'F' on the tourlegends homepage and signing in with their FB log-in.

We are considering adding more user actions to our Facebook Connect interface and would love to hear from you what you would like to share from tourlegends to your FB friends!

]]>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0700http://www.banterbox.com/1/post/2009/06/fantasy-cricket-league-transfer-windows.htmlToday we release 'transfer windows' to our fantasy cricket league (FCL) functionality. This enhancement enables league administrators to create a transfer window (a defined time period) during which up to 20 transfers per team can be made. Users are then able to transfer players in and out of their fantasy teams to enhance their chances of topping their club's fantasy cricket league! 

We expect this will add a whole new layer of excitement for our FCL users and a whole heap of additional banter at the sidelines...

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