Information processing system, information processing apparatus, recording medium and information processing method

An information processing apparatus performing processing concerning a tournament competition via a network, comprising:

• a history storage unit storing competition history information for a user in a tournament;
• a competition request transmission unit transmitting at least a part of competition history information stored in the history storage unit to a server together with a competition request;
• an exchange processing unit performing processing of exchanging at least a part of the competition history information with a user of an opponent decided by the server based on at least a part of competition history information and a competition request transmitted from the competition request transmission unit;
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• a competition processing unit performing processing concerning a competition against the opponent.

A non-transitory recording medium in which a computer program is recorded, making a computer operate as:

• a history storage processing unit performing processing of storing competition history information for a user in a tournament;
• a competition request transmission unit transmitting at least a part of competition history information stored by the history storage processing unit to a server together with a competition request;
• an exchange processing unit performing processing of exchanging at least a part of the competition history information with a user of an opponent decided by the server based on at least a part of competition history information and a competition request transmitted from the competition request transmission unit;
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• a competition processing unit performing processing concerning a competition against the opponent.

An information processing method in which a server communicates with a plurality of information processing apparatuses via a network and a plurality of users of the information processing apparatuses performs a tournament competition, comprising:

• storing competition history information for a user in a tournament;
• accepting, by the server, a competition request from an information processing apparatus;
• deciding, by the server, an opponent of the user concerning an accepted request based on at least a part of stored competition history information;
• exchanging at least a part of the competition history information between competing users, based on a decision;
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• performing processing concerning a competition between the users.