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 sutto

of course! Thanks for that. (if only paypal would allow multiple IPN's to be configured!

Another things, I can't seem to work out how to rebuild category cache. Can you point me in the right direction please.

Thanks again.

http://www.yoursite.com/forums/compe...=rebuildcaches

[KGodel]

Is there a way to increase the maximum number of players/teams in a specific tournament type?

[MS-RenatoO]

Hey bananalive, you can help with installation?

Thy

[Falcoita]

Originally Posted by Falcoita

and also the league feature that's a player could insert the match result ?

For this ?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by MS-RenatoO

Hey bananalive, you can help with installation?

Thy

Have you had a look at the readme?

 ## Installation/ Upgrade ## 

1) upload                     (Allow Overwrite "YES" for overwrite)
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ajax_competitions.php -> \  
competitions.php -> \              
ladders.php -> \ 
teams.php -> \
tll_credits.php -> \
tll_paypal_ipn.php -> \
tll_tickets.php -> \
tournaments.php -> \ 

barousel_demos.css -> \clientscript\
javascript_competitions.js -> \clientscript\
javascript_tll_brackets.js -> \clientscript\
jquery.barousel.min.js -> \clientscript\

functions_tal.php -> \includes\
functions_tll_brackets.php -> \includes\
functions_tll_premium.php -> \includes\

bitfield_tournament2008.xml -> \includes\xml\    
cpnav_tournament.xml -> \includes\xml\  
hooks_tournament2008.xml -> \includes\xml\  
      
index.html -> \images\teamlogos\              (Directory teamlogos should be CHMOD 777)  

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2) Import product-tournament2008.xml into PRODUCTS. Allow Overwrite "YES" (AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> [Add/Import Product])
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3) Click 'install' in the thread you downloaded this from.  
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/misc.php?do=producthelp&pid=tournament2008


 ## Setting Usergroup Permissions ## 

Go to: AdminCP -> Usergroups -> Usergroup Manager -> {Select Usergroup} -> Edit Tournament Permissions -> Save

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by KGodel

Is there a way to increase the maximum number of players/teams in a specific tournament type?

No. But as v5.2.0 round robin and double round robin sizes increased

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Falcoita

For this ?

Players should/teams should already be able to submit match results. Have a look under challenges section.

http://yoursite.com/forums/ladders.php?do=challenges

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Falcoita

Is it possible to add match-chat on tournaments ?

You can enable comments for tournaments. Or link a tournament to a forum thread.

[Falcoita]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Players should/teams should already be able to submit match results. Have a look under challenges section.

http://yoursite.com/forums/ladders.php?do=challenges

i'm asking for tournaments not for ladder/league, is it possible ?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Falcoita

i'm asking for tournaments not for ladder/league, is it possible ?

It's premium feature for tournaments.