Tournament Mode - Project-Stinger/Main GitHub Wiki
What is Tournament Mode?
Tournament Mode lets you lock down the blaster to specific settings. This is useful for competitive events where you want to ensure that all blasters have the same limits. Tournament Mode can be adjusted to different levels of restrictions. You can either just set some limits, or even lock the complete menu.
How to exit Tournament Mode
To exit Tournament Mode (this will also be shown before you enable it), you need to plug in the blaster via USB only. After a couple of seconds, the blaster will exit Tournament Mode with a harmonic melody (V2 only). It does not matter whether you plug in USB only to boot it up, or whether you plug in USB while the blaster is already running. It is important though, that you remove the battery.
For V1: Undo all 8 screws of the lower left aluminum bar, and take the bar off. You will find the microcontroller wrapped in electrical tape. Plug in a USB-C cable there. Depending on the USB port you are plugging the blaster into, you might need to
- plug in a battery
- plug in the USB-C
- unplug the battery
to get the blaster to run off USB power. On stronger USB ports, you can just plug the blaster in via USB directly.
How to enable Tournament Mode
- Max RPM: Set a maximum RPM that is allowed. Max FPS cannot be set, as the FPS is not just dependent on RPM, but also dart type, BCAR etc. If a profile has an RPM higher than the set limit, this profile will be nerfed to that limit while in Tournament Mode.
- Max DPS: Set a maximum darts per second that is allowed. If a profile has a darts/s higher than the set limit, this profile will be nerfed to that limit while in Tournament Mode.
- Allow Semi-Auto: If this is disabled, any profile using semi-auto will use single shot instead.
- Allow Full-Auto: If this is disabled, any profile using full-auto will use single shot instead.
- Invert Screen: If this is enabled, the screen will be inverted while in Tournament Mode. This helps you see it when someone somehow exits Tournament Mode. If you disable this, the homescreen will have a dark blue background instead of black to indicate that you are in Tournament Mode.
- Block Menu Access: If this is enabled, the menu will be inaccessible. This means that you can not change any settings while in Tournament Mode. This is useful if you want to ensure that no one can change the settings during a tournament. If you disable this, you can still change settings while in Tournament Mode - but all the above limits will still apply.
Read the text and press right to enter tournament mode.
[!TIP] Some features are inaccessible during tournaments. For example, you cannot do a factory reset. This is to prevent cheating. If you want to do a factory reset, you need to exit Tournament Mode first.