revere-group/alley-practice — reverse-engineered prompt

Build me a Minecraft 1.8 practice PvP plugin for a Spigot server called Alley. I want it to feel like a solid custom practice core made for competitive play, with a big focus on performance, clean match flow, and easy customization for server admins. It should let me control match settings, player behavior, permissions, and in game visuals from config files, and it should generate a jar I can drop into my plugins folder and run.

Please make it modular enough that I can keep expanding it later, and make startup smooth so it creates the files it needs, including database setup in a database.yml file after first launch. I want the codebase to feel organized and maintainable, not just hacked together.

Use Java and target Minecraft 1.8 compatibility. Make sure the plugin is actually usable once built, with sensible defaults so I can test it quickly on a local server. If you need details about current Spigot behavior or setup expectations, look up the current docs online.