Major Additions - Tournaments, Ladders & Leagues Manager v4.x

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Modification Description

This modification allows you to manage tournaments and ladders on your forum. It provides interactibility both for forum members and forum admin.

Tournament Types:

• Single Elimination Tournaments
• Last Man Standing Tournaments
• Double Elimination Tournaments
• Round Robin Tournaments also called all-play-all tournament
• Double Round Robin

Ladder Description:

Users or teams can 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:

• General Features
  • All pages are XHTML valid
• 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
  • 3 Tournament Modes: Last Man Standing, Single Elimination, Double Elimination and Round Robin
  • 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
  • Require check-in before tournaments
  • 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
  • Search Free Agents for new team members
• 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
  • Match Finder
• 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/ leagues
  • Category displays in navbar when viewing ladder/ tournament/ league

Installation:

1. Follow instructions included in .zip
2. Click Install

Premium Features:

• Pay to play/ credits system
  • Opportunity to earn money for your forum
  • Uses PayPal for payments
• Support Tickets
• Leagues into Knockout Stage
• Live Match Finder

Suggestions:

1. Please post any suggestions/ comments about this modification and I will try and implement them

** Don't forgot to click Mark as Installed **

[nishant.soni]

cant find options to set usergroup permissions. Any idea?

[oooh em geee]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

"Both LMS type"...?

There is only one LMS & one Single Elimination type of tournament.
Do you have a link.?

My LMS works fine.

I meant single and team LMS.

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by nishant.soni

cant find options to set usergroup permissions. Any idea?

Should be at the bottom of each usergroup's options/permissions

Originally Posted by oooh em geee

I meant single and team LMS.

Ahh i see.

[nishant.soni]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Should be at the bottom of each usergroup's options/permissions

I know its supposed to be there, but for some reason, its not

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by nishant.soni

I know its supposed to be there, but for some reason, its not

It might not necessarily be at the bottom.

Check you have uploaded bitfield_tournament2008.xml to includes/xml/

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by wittebolx

for some weird reason my registered members are not allowed to view the tournaments and ladders. It's even more weird when you consider i gave them the same rights as an administrator for both blocks. any ideas why people are still locked out of the mod?

vBulletin Options -> Tournament and Ladder Options -> Modification Enabled -> Yes

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by oooh em geee

How do I finish both LMS type tournaments? I have players in the tourny, I started the tourny, and gave them points by double clicking in the score column and putting in there score.

When I hit finish however it says: "You have not submitted any results.".

It does that for both LMS type tournaments. So how do I finish them?

Fixed in v4.0.8

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by wampforum

have a little problem. set up a ladder which currently has 29 players on it but the page will only show 26 and I can find no way of seeing the other 3, is it possible to extend the number of players shown or at the least the ability to look at the others on a next page?

Fixed issue of not showing pagination for next version (v4.0.8)

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by oooh em geee

I found a bug. =]
I made a team called: Alky's Team, and now on the tournament page it says: Alky\'s Team. See image below.

Fixed in latest version v4.0.8

[wampforum]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Fixed issue of not showing pagination for next version (v4.0.8)

cheers - any news on mods adding ladder players?