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SpawELO – small free matchmaking system for LAN parties


Polska wersja Hey! I'm Spawek, and this is the story of a project I built with my friends to make our LAN parties better. For the past 16 years, we’ve been organizing at least one LAN party every year with a group of friends.

Dota 2 is our main game, but we also play classics like Counter-Strike, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Warcraft 3, Blooby Volley, and more. In such cases, we just added the match with the assumed winner to the data as a "fake game" and generated new teams. The new system is ready to predict victory chances, even with uneven team sizes.

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