The demo worlds
Two worlds, on purpose
The demo holds two fictional leagues side by side. One is half-way through a busy season, so there are tables, results and history to look at. The other has only just signed up and has nothing in it at all — because the empty screens are the first thing a new league or club actually sees.
Every demo person belongs to one or the other: on Demo accounts they are listed under An established league and A brand-new one.
The established league
Coteaux & Vallée Pétanque is a regional league with 7 clubs, each with its own ground, and two teams per club (the A and B teams).
- Saint-Arnac Boules
- Saint-Arnac · plays at Place du Marché
- Vieux Moulin PC
- Escales · plays at Le Moulin
- Les Oliviers
- Cazouls · plays at Jardin des Oliviers
- Pont-Neuf Boulodrome
- Pont-Neuf · plays at Sous le Pont
- Clos Saint-Jean
- Montblanc · plays at Le Clos
- La Garrigue PC
- Aumes · plays at Terrain de la Garrigue
- Cercle des Platanes
- Florensac · plays at Allée des Platanes
- Coteaux League — Tuesday evenings. The A teams play in the Premier Division and the B teams in the First Division. 7 of 14 match nights have been played.
- Thursday League — Thursday afternoons, for six of the A teams.
- Coteaux Cup and Coteaux Plate — knockouts running alongside, with the finals at the league's own neutral ground, Boulodrome Départemental.
- A few details are there to be found: one team phones its results in rather than using Leagable, and two players have chosen to appear on the websites as Anonymous player.
The brand-new league
Pont-du-Jour League has only just joined, with one club, Les Cigales, and its one team. Next season has been started but not set up — no divisions, no fixtures. The club has no website yet, and its ground has no map. This is the place to try setting a league up from nothing.
Everyone shares it
There is one demo, and everybody with a passphrase is in it at the same time. That means:
- Results, players, posts and settings that other people change appear for you too.
- Someone may already have done what you were about to try — a result already entered, a fixture already moved. Pick another one.
- Two people can be the same demo person at once.
- Deleting things is fine to try, but please keep it small: deleting a whole club or league spoils the demo for everyone until the next reset.
Dates move with the demo
The season's dates are set when the demo is built, so the last match night played is always shortly before the latest reset and the rest of the season lies ahead. The longer it goes without a reset, the more “upcoming” fixtures slip into the past without results, and the stand-in captains' rights (three weeks) run out. That is the demo getting old, not a fault.
Resets: nothing is kept
- What is erased
- Everything anybody has done in the demo — results, players, teams, settings, posts, all of it. There is no undo and no copy kept.
- What is kept
- Your passphrase. It keeps working.
- What you will see
- Your next click takes you back to Demo accounts. Enter your passphrase, choose someone, and you will find the demo exactly as described on this page, with its dates moved up to today. The league and club websites may say “not found” for up to five minutes.
So please don't be disappointed when your work vanishes — it is meant to. Treat anything you do in the demo as a sketch. If you find something you want to show us, take a screenshot and write down the steps, so that it survives the next reset (see how to tell us).