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7.4 - Tournament

Problem

An esports tournament needs a program to process results.

The program should:

  • Store the team names, countries and scores in parallel arrays
  • Use a function to find and return the position of a team name from user input
  • Use a procedure to display the team name, country and score from the found position

Example run

Enter team name: Stormbreakers

Team Information
Country - Japan
Score - 190

Arrays

teams = ["Shadow Vipers", "Neon Titans", "Iron Wolves", "Phantom Blaze", "Stormbreakers"]

countries = ["South Korea", "Brazil", "United States", "Sweden", "Japan"]

scores = [150, 175, 160, 180, 190]

 

1 Find the position of a team from a name entered by the user IN teams
OUT team_pos
2 Display the team details of the team at team_pos IN countries, scores, team_pos
OUT  

 

  1. Linear search to find the team name position (each team name is unique)

 

 

# Main
teams = ["Shadow Vipers", "Neon Titans", "Iron Wolves", "Phantom Blaze", "Stormbreakers"] 
countries = ["South Korea", "Brazil", "United States", "Sweden", "Japan"] 
scores = [150, 175, 160, 180, 190]

team_pos = find_position(teams)
display_details(countries, scores, team_pos)

def find_position(teams):
    team_name = input("Enter a team name: ")
    found = False
    team_pos = 0
    while found == False and team_pos< len(teams):
        if teams[team_pos] == team_name :
            found = True
        else:
            team_pos = team_pos + 1
    return team_pos

def display_details(countries, scores, team_pos):
    print()
    print("Team information")
    print("Country -", countries[team_pos])
    print("Score -", scores[team_pos])

# Main
teams = ["Shadow Vipers", "Neon Titans", "Iron Wolves", "Phantom Blaze", "Stormbreakers"] 
countries = ["South Korea", "Brazil", "United States", "Sweden", "Japan"] 
scores = [150, 175, 160, 180, 190]

team_pos = find_position(teams)
display_details(countries, scores, team_pos)

def find_position(teams):
    team_name = input("Enter a team name: ")
    found = False
    team_pos = 0
    while found == False and team_pos < len(teams):
        if teams[team_pos] == team_name:
            found = True
        else:
            team_pos = team_pos + 1
    return team_pos # return the position two be used with the parallel arrays

def display_details(countries, scores, team_pos):
    print()
    print("Team information")
    print("Country -", countries[team_pos])
    print("Score -", scores[team_pos])

# Main
teams = ["Shadow Vipers", "Neon Titans", "Iron Wolves", "Phantom Blaze", "Stormbreakers"] 
countries = ["South Korea", "Brazil", "United States", "Sweden", "Japan"] 
scores = [150, 175, 160, 180, 190]

team_pos = find_position(teams) # Pass in the team names so the position can be found
display_details(countries, scores, team_pos) # Pass in the two other arrays and the position to be displayed

Extension

Update the program so that it will also display the differen in points between the top scoring team and the searched team.

Enter team name: Shadow Vipers

Team Information
Country - South Korea
Score - 150
Distance - 40 points from top score