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 **

[GamersChallenge]

whats the difference between ladders and leagues?

[markhendo1986]

Good question!

I am running it on my forum - is there a way of changing the 'Total Points', 'Points Conceded' and 'XP' to something like 'Goals for', 'Goals against' and 'Points'?

I can't see a way of doing it in AdminCP?

[FoW]

Is there an easy way to just make an entire usergroup a ladder? Lets say i want the registered users to be in a certain ladder, is there an automatic way to do that?

[hoadiem]

i have one question, what do we play in the tournament ? like competing in what games? or what to do to win. thanks.

[markhendo1986]

Originally Posted by hoadiem

i have one question, what do we play in the tournament ? like competing in what games? or what to do to win. thanks.

The competition can be what you want it to be (PS3, Real life football, anything) you just have a ranking table for it.

You can set the points for a win / lose/ draw and in ladders you can award extra elo points to a user for winning? hope that helps?

[markhendo1986]

I have a question on top of my other one...

Originally Posted by question1

I am running it on my forum - is there a way of changing the 'Total Points', 'Points Conceded' and 'XP' to something like 'Goals for', 'Goals against' and 'Points'?

I can't see a way of doing it in AdminCP?

Originally Posted by question2

I am running a league with 18 players in one group and it fails to generate fixtures for that league - when I try it with 17 players its the same outcome, try it with 16 players and it generates fixtures fine ? is there a way that we can increase the teams allowed in a league to generate fixutes?

Thanks

[w3rk3d]

Nice mod! I've installed it, but I'm really hoping future updates will address how this script slows the page loading. I'm guessing it's because there's 100 KB of JS that needs to download?

EDIT: Nevermind...wrong thread

[iDHKHCM]

How do you add categories. Im admin, group permissions all set to yes, ive been threw all options dont see where add categories would be. thanks in advance to anyone with solution

[jerett]

You do this on the forum not in admincp.

[jerett]

When I edit rules and click save it reverts back to the generic place holder text. Any suggestions why this might be happening?

Also how can you set up rules specific to each tournament if you wanted to?

Next ... Has anyone found a successful way to charge per tournament and to list a prize amount? If so please contact me.