Major Additions - Forum Tournaments & Ladders

[Script Demo] [Version History]
Compatible with 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x

Tournament Description:
Users or teams can join tournaments. Once full the tournament starts. In single elimination tournaments competitors progress through rounds of tournament with the number of rounds depending on the number of players in tournament which is set on tournament creation. Last Man Standing Tournaments also supported.
[Screenshot of Single Elimination Tournament (Slightly outdated)]

Ladder Description:
Users or teams can also join ladders and challenge other players or teams in the ladder. Elo rating system is used which calculates the difficultly of a match according to the players' ranks and this is taken into account when the ranks are updated after the match is finished.

Feature List:

• Tournament Features
  • Hall of Fame (Top 10 Tournament Players)
  • Permissions can be set per usergroup
    (AdminCP -> Usergroups -> Usergroup Manager -> {Select Usergroup} -> Tournament Permissions)
  • Tournaments start automatically when no slots are left
  • Tournaments have proper Date/ Time converted to users timezone and DST
  • 2 Tournament Modes: Last Man Standing and Single Elimination
  • Filter Tournaments Displayed according to Tournament Status
  • Tournament User Stats Page
  • 'Start Tournament' for Single Elimination adds bye players and creates brackets
• Tournament options
  • Turn on/off tournament
  • Create Thread on Tournament Creation
  • Tournament Stats in Member Profile
  • Tournament Stats in Postbit (Can be turned on/off in Tournament Options)
  • Comments per page
  • Tournament description length shown in tournament List
• Tournament Display
  • LMS realtime ranking shows if players are equal positions
  • Tournament View Counter
  • Tournament creator and last edited by notes at bottom of tournament
• Tournament Moderators can...
  • Add/edit tournament (description uses vBulletin Editor)
  • Edit tournament type if not started yet
  • Add Score type (points, wins, kills, deaths, etc.) for LMS tournaments
  • Tournament mods can remove players if tournament hasn't started
  • Increase/ Decrease Tournament Slots
  • Pm all competitors with custom message and title (permissions set to bypass max pm recipients restrictions)
  • Add players (Ajax/Javascript userid fetch)
  • Swap players in LMS mode
  • Create/ edit/ delete announcements
• Competitors can...
  • Players can remove themselves if tournament hasn't started
  • Users can PM themselves the details of the tournament
  • Sign up to tournament only once
• Tournament Comments
  • Uses vBulletin Editor
  • Comment Display with user avatars and last edited by note
  • User able to edit/delete their own comment (subject to permissions)
  • Tournament moderators can edit all comments
  • If applicable under username on comments Tournament Creator, Tournament Competitor or Tournament Winner
  • Comment paging
• Teams
  • Users can apply to teams
  • Leader can accept/ decline users
  • Team profile shows team stats
  • Team list
  • Can limit teams created by user (in usergroup options)
  • Fields: team website, gamertag, logo, description, slog, tags
• Team leader can...
  • delete players from his/her team
  • Promote players in his/her team to Leader or Co-Leader
  • Join tournaments
• Ladder Features
  • Elo rating system (Javascript Elo calculator @ ladders.php?do=elorating)
  • Players last activity (date)
  • Winning/ Losing Streak
  • Longest Winning Streak
  • Admin can submit scores/ add challenges
  • Report/ dispute challenges
• Ladder Display
  • leader-board for each ladder
  • last 10 upcoming/ past matches per ladder
  • separate page for accepting/rejecting challenges and submitting score (have to be accepted by other user)
• Tournament Announcements
  • Tournament Moderators can create/edit announcements
  • Uses forum last visit for announcement read marking
  • Shows last user to edit announcement
• Categories
  • Share categories for tournaments/ ladders
  • Category displays in navbar when viewing ladder/ tournament

Installation:

1. Follow instructions included in .zip
2. If you are using v3.6.x you will need to download this product file and import it
   (It contains memberinfo css which is used in profile comments in v3.7.x and is in used in Tournaments Comments and Team Profiles)
3. Click Install

Future Features:

• Add more Different Tournament Types (Double Elimination and Round Robin)
• Allowing a player to only join one team per ladder
• Use 3.7/3.8 notification system
• My Teams page
• Easy way to Re-arrange users in tournament
• Limit number of challenges per week/day
• Ladder match finder
• Custom message included in challenge pm sent to user

Donations:

• If you want to donate please click 'Support Developer'

Translations:

• German/ Deutsch http://www.vbulletin-germany.org/showthread.php?t=5594
• French/ fran?aise http://www.vbulletin-ressources.com/...itions-t15101/

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Chris11987

I want to make the file twice and have one name tournament and one named ladder. Simple enough, but where would I go to edit the url for things like "tournament.php&do=__________"? Is that inside the tournament.php file?

tournament.php?do=X

PHP Code:

if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'X') {
//code here
} 


Originally Posted by Chris11987

Also, where it says "Forums > Tournaments > Ladders" in the navbar, how would I make it so it doesn't say "Tournaments" when I'm on a ladders page.

Remove from each ladder page.

PHP Code:

'tournament.php' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl_q'] => $vbphrase['tmnts'] 


Bu I would recommend you just changing $vbphrase['tmnts'] to your own custom phrase $vbphrase['customphrasename']

[JAnders]

Originally Posted by JAnders

I just updated to the latest version and the elo system is great. However, I have some ladders already in progress.. and it's only calculation on a going forward basis how can I make it calculate for all the matches that were already played.

you can take a look to understand better:
http://fifamexico.net/foros/tourname...iewladder&id=1

mr banana any word on this?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by JAnders

mr banana any word on this?

I can't think of a way atm, but if I can I will post it here.

[JAnders]

btw I love this mod and the direction is going, I always find it very hard to know what was changed or modified from version to version.

I can help you document as you add functionality and bug fixes. so you can post what changed in the current version. e-mail me if you'll like me to help

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by JAnders

btw I love this mod and the direction is going, I always find it very hard to know what was changed or modified from version to version.

I can help you document as you add functionality and bug fixes. so you can post what changed in the current version. e-mail me if you'll like me to help

Thanks for your offer. I try and keep a version history in second post of thread here

[Antek]

Next idea: auto creata event

[JAnders]

the most important feature we currently need is option to manually update ladder challanges as an admin.

and the option for users to drop out of a ladder

[gamerscms]

Thanks for a further update
would be great to see teams in ladders, will we be seeing this feature?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by gamerscms

Thanks for a further update
would be great to see teams in ladders, will we be seeing this feature?

Yes, it was one of the main reasons for combining the two modifications.

[butler312]

Absolutely wonderful mod. With the ELO rating you have exactly what I've been looking for. Donation will come as soon as I get paid next (I know I should have donated earlier anyways, but oh well).

One suggestion I remember from earlier that I thought I would bring back up is the ability for the admin/moderators to sticky certain tournaments/ladders.