Oomba, Inc. is launching its long anticipated Tournament Management System at this year’s Gen Con in Indianapolis, Aug. 14-17.  Oomba simplifies tournaments by replacing paper and spreadsheets with a cloud-based social network and suite of mobile apps that aid in running large, live tournaments. At Gen Con Oomba is working with Mayfair Games to manage its US World Championship Qualifier for Settlers of Catan and Cryptozoic for its introduction of Adventure Time Card Wars, along with DC Comics Deck-Building Game and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings Deck-Building Game. Oomba was founded by Michael Williams and advisor Nolan Bushnell.

To showcase its ability to operate large, live tournaments, Oomba will make an official attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the largest tournament of Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock with thousands of players expected to participate.  Oomba will award prizes to every participant with top-level prizes including an Apple Macbook Air, two Apple iPads, and four Settlers of Catan 15^th Anniversary Editions. The attempt will run all four days with the finale on Sunday, Aug. 17.

Oomba is the first social media platform seeking to simplify the organizational process while simultaneously providing players with a permanent record of their results and a compelling forum within which to share their experiences. Oomba’s capability ranges across the entire competitive spectrum, from a single soccer match to organizing the inner workings of a major sports or game league.

Oomba features include:

• Tournament Management System: Templated and custom-configurable tournament management tools to handle registration, scoring, bracket seeding, and result calculations – everything needed to keep players performing and make every event a success;
• Social Networking: Picking up where other systems have left off, Oomba offers multiple persona types, easy-to-use security and permissions, full multimedia integration, communication tools such as messaging, chat and more;
• Live and VOD broadcasting: Oomba.TV is a full feature, live and on-demand video broadcasting platform working in tandem with Oomba.com to offer the best in webcasting to competitors, proud parents, event hosts, and all looking to blast their achievements.

Oomba tournaments for Mayfair and Crytpozoic games will run continuously in Hall F at Gen Con.