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 **

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by gamerscms

Hi Banana,

Just a quick question to you, now you have a premium version does that mean you will now add feature requests from paid users?

Loving this mod and look forward to your reply

Depends on the request tbh. It may be something for lite version or for premium version or may be too complex to implement.

[PPhysX]

If I try to put a team logo, it takes me to a blank page.
Rest, everything is working. But how can I fix this team logo problem?

[jeremyricci]

So here's something I'd be willing to throw down cash for, easily:

User Match Report.

Currently, it is up to a moderator to update match status, which puts a "strain" on the team. What I would instead suggest is that users are able to report the outcome and score of a match (Win, Score, for example). Moderators only need be involved when reports from opposing players / teams are conflicting.

Reporting would be done by the player / team leader (or creator).

Other suggestions:

o Tourney bracket doesn't scale, so users with long names will show up 'blank' or push options out (such as the option to regress players).

o Ability to move players around within the tourney. Currently you get an error message saying "Player is already in tournament".

[Athrun1234]

Can't seem to add players to my team come up as "Athrun1234 is not a member of this Forum, Please Check your spelling" but I am the Administrator.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Athrun1234

Can't seem to add players to my team come up as "Athrun1234 is not a member of this Forum, Please Check your spelling" but I am the Administrator.

Is Athrun1234 already part of the team?

Are they any special characters in the username?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by PPhysX

If I try to put a team logo, it takes me to a blank page.
Rest, everything is working. But how can I fix this team logo problem?

Do you get any error messages?

[Toorak Times]

Originally Posted by Toorak Times

XML Error: Not well-formed (invalid token) at Line 1

Something went wrong when I uploaded the xml file


Tried again and got this on my home page

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(1363) : eval()'d code on line 138

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/includes/class_core.php:5570) in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 5279

I'll disable and wait for reply

bump...any ideas for me bananalive?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Toorak Times

bump...any ideas for me bananalive?

Not sure what's causing the error, are you sure it's caused by this modification.

But you can try importing this xml

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by jeremyricci

o Ability to move players around within the tourney. Currently you get an error message saying "Player is already in tournament".

Use "re-organise brackets" for Single elimination tournaments.

[Toorak Times]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Not sure what's causing the error, are you sure it's caused by this modification.

But you can try importing this xml

Yeah, I have enabled and disabled a number of times and it causes those messages to appear at the top of the screen. Thanks I'll try the xml