hey, its really cool that you did go ahead and try to learn programming! a tournament script, depending on the complexity, would be a tough but doable first coding project.
from your post, the features you mentioned can be broken down into a list:
- a GUI displaying a tournament bracket
- pre-round weapon picking
- winner of tournament gets sent to special winner box
- automatic setup and starting rounds
since this kind of script would heavily depend on the build, minus the gui part, i suggest you start the project first by finishing the build and finish learning how to code before tackling the code aspect, since there is going to be a lot to code and without an existing build you'd be stuck at certain parts in the code. you'll also probably need time to flesh out the small details and learn how to use blockland's scripting engine, TorqueScript - there's functions and things that, although similar to java at its core, involves a lot of other information/functions.