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 **

[Fudgyyy]

I only received one image in my buttons folder, report.gif. The other images don't show up, including the reputation-20.png image. How do I access that?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Fudgyyy

I only received one image in my buttons folder, report.gif. The other images don't show up, including the reputation-20.png image. How do I access that?

It should be default image of vbulletin. If you do not have it, I've attached it for you.

[vap0r-7]

Few issues we have found:

Teams should be able to edit or cancel a challenge they create
The challenge times are not adjusting for Daylight Savings Time
Teams should be able to leave a league before it starts

[gamerscms]

*** PAID FEATURE REQUEST***

Hi Banana,

I would like to know if you take on custom work, i use Joomla for our main website and would like to know how hard it would be to create 3 modules for Joomla and link it from Vbulletin.

Upcoming matches.
A list of ladders.
latest results.

Can Vbulletin hook into Joomla?

Would you be willing to work with a Joomla dev if he required any help with your code?

Regards

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by gamerscms

*** PAID FEATURE REQUEST***

Hi Banana,

I would like to know if you take on custom work, i use Joomla for our main website and would like to know how hard it would be to create 3 modules for Joomla and link it from Vbulletin.

Upcoming matches.
A list of ladders.
latest results.

Can Vbulletin hook into Joomla?

Would you be willing to work with a Joomla dev if he required any help with your code?

Regards

I'm not doing any paid requests atm, sorry.

To link to joomla, you'll need to include vbulletin's global.php then do query.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by vap0r-7

Few issues we have found:

Teams should be able to edit or cancel a challenge they create
The challenge times are not adjusting for Daylight Savings Time
Teams should be able to leave a league before it starts

1. what part of the challenge do you wish to edit?

2. i'll look into this

3. added into last release v5.1.4

[gamerscms]

Originally Posted by bananalive

I'm not doing any paid requests atm, sorry.

To link to joomla, you'll need to include vbulletin's global.php then do query.

Hi mate,

Thanks for the reply

So it is possible to have it work correct?

Thanks

[MudRacing]

Now it works well!
I bought the Pro version, thanks!

[officer cartman]

Originally Posted by bananalive

So you want a tournament linked to league which gives points to league according to the result of tournament? So 1st in tournament, gets 10 points in league, 2nd in tournament gets 8 points in league, 3rd in tournament gets 7 points in league, etc.?

that is just what im looking for the ability to link a tournament to league..
any chance of that ?

[pwnedPRO]

what differences between leafues and ladders?
what is Knockout Stage in League?