sf4answers.com Tournaments and Events Page and Feeds

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(Yes, that image is LIVE, and represents the current upcoming SF4 tournaments and events within a 250 mile radius of Tulsa, OK)

red = within two weeks, yellow = between two and four weeks, green = more than four weeks away

2009-05-26 - Filtering

There are now filters on the events page for date, location and radius:

http://sf4answers.com/events

Simply set your filters on the events page and hit the "Filter" button and it will filter the events in the date range within the radius specified around the location parameter.  The links above to "Add to RSS", "Add to calendar", and "View an image" will give you the formatted feeds with the filter applied, so you can add them to RSS or your calendar app for your specific location.

For example, when filtering to see all upcoming events in a 250 mile radius around Tulsa, it will produce the following RSS/calendar/image links:

http://sf4answers.com/feeds/events?from=&to=&location=Tulsa%2C+OK&radiusValue=250&radiusUnit=mi
http://sf4answers.com/feeds/events.ics?from=&to=&location=Tulsa%2C+OK&radiusValue=250&radiusUnit=mi
http://sf4answers.com/feeds/events.jpg?from=&to=&location=Tulsa%2C+OK&radiusValue=250&radiusUnit=mi

Which you can subsequently add to your RSS reader or calendar app and have it filtered appropriately.

2009-05-07 - Twitter Feed

The Twitter feed is now operational.  New items added to http://sf4answers.com will update the Twitter feed when they are added.  The Twitter feed is:

http://twitter.com/sf4answers

2009-05-03 - Introduction

For a while, I've been trying to put together Street Fighter 4 information in a more structured manner which would offer the community greater value.  To that end, I've created the sf4answers.com Tournaments and Events Page and Feeds.

The reason I am posting it here is that I've gotten information on and included at least three tournaments which I didn't find in SRK (I found this site through a Google search for Street Fighter 4 tournaments initially and subscribed to the RSS feeds to get data) and I wanted the community here (as well as everywhere else) to benefit from the work.

And that work is this:

http://sf4answers.com/events

There, you will see Google Map with all the (upcoming) events that I can find (items will be taken off the map as they expire).

Starting off, there is an ATOM feed for the events (which also expires entries as the events transpire) which you can subscribe to in any RSS reader:

http://sf4answers.com/feeds/events

The feed itself has geographic information (GeoRSS tags, for those that are interested) so you can plug it into Google Maps yourself if you want to display it.

Also, each feed entry has an enclosure (attachment) which links to an iCalendar file which you can put in Outlook, or iCal.

iCalendar feeds exist as well which you can subscribe to in Outlook/iCal/Live Calendar/Google Calendar or any other calendar software which supports iCalendar feeds:

webcal://sf4answers.com/feeds/events.ics

or

http://sf4answers.com/feeds/events.ics

If you use this, your calendar will be automatically updated with new entries as they are added, with no additional work.

You can also use the http subscription link if you want to do a one time download of current events and import it into your favorite calendar software/service.

Of course, if anyone has any questions/suggestions/comments, feel free to post them here.

The twitter feed for sf4answers.com will also post when new events are updated, if you want to follow that, the twitter link is:

http://twitter.com/sf4answers

There are some other enhancements I've made, and I've chronicaled them here on SRK:

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=188425

Note, this is NOT an SRK-associated tool, it's just my own work, someone who is passionate about the game and trying to help the community out through that passion.

[X_A]

Thank you for reviewing the thread, most don't even do that

We are fairly strict on what goes into the Tournaments and Events forum, and of course how it's formatted.

However, your site represents one of the loopholes we are currently discussing on here -
http://www.okgamers.com/forums/index.php/topic,2264.0.html


Anyway - as a result of there not being a final call I'm going to go ahead and move this to the Local Players - Fighting Gamers section as it's a resource for them specifically.



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X A,

Thanks, that works.

Once I get the filter functionality up, I'll post more about it here.  This way, people can filter the map, and the feeds specifically (as well as the above map) for their needs (for things in the OK area, for example).

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Added Filtering.