TabbycatDebate/tabbycat

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Authors & Acknowledgements
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Authors
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Tabbycat was authored by Qi-Shan Lim for Auckland Australs 2010. The current active maintainers are:

- Philip Belesky
- Chuan-Zheng Lee
- Étienne Beaulé

Please don't hesitate to contact us  (`e-mail <mailto:contact@tabbycat-debate.org>`_) with any suggestions, expressions of interest or generally anything relating to Tabbycat.

Contributors
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- Thevesh Theva contributed the algorithm for calculating the liveness of teams within a particular break category.
- Viran Weerasekera contributed the statistical tests used to estimate the degree to which a motion's results and vetoes are balanced.
- Viran Weerasekera, Valerie Tierney, Molly Dale, Madeline Schultz, and Vail Bromberger contributed to the "Tournament Logistics" section of our documentation.

Sponsors
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- Thanks to the Western Australian Debating League for sponsoring various features related to organising division-based tournaments and round-robin based draw methods.