I've got an idea that might help the tourneys run smoother. Instead of using the big projector screen for games (which I've always found to be horrible for most games), we could use it to post what matches are going on in what tourneys.
For instance, if we were starting round 3 of a Joust tournament with two machines running matches one and two, the screen might display something like this:
JOUST
ROUND 3 - Match 1/Match 2
DancingTofu
(Charlie)
vs
Phatman
(Steven)
-----
Anyl
(Harry)
vs
ReTNTV
(Voldy)
And for cosmetic purposes, we could have a generic screenshot of the game on one side of the text, and some other random picture on the other.
We'd have to make it clearly visible from wherever the tourneys are though. Otherwise, it would fail.
It would also be nice if we had tournament registration on a computer too. What I'm think with that is that we could just have a computer set up with a big sign that says "Tourney Sign-up" and it would have a bunch of word documents on the desktop, labled by tournament, and people would simply open the documents for whatever tourneys their interested in, put their names on the list, hit "save", then go back to whatever they're doing. That will eliminate the obstacles of horrendous handwriting and "HOLY NUTS WHERE'D THE PEN GO?!" in one swell foop, and make it easier to transfer the data to the other computer faster.