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 **

[betts02]

Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in /home/xlgaming/public_html/xleague.co.uk/teams.php on line 88

newly updated can you please help cheers

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by betts02

Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in /home/xlgaming/public_html/xleague.co.uk/teams.php on line 88

newly updated can you please help cheers

Open your includes/config.php file and below <?php add the following.

PHP Code:

define('SKIP_DS_ERRORS', true); 


So it looks like this:

PHP Code:

<?php
define('SKIP_DS_ERRORS', true);  
/*=================================================  =====================*\
|| ##################################################  ################## ||
|| # vBulletin 4.2.2

Use a editor like notepad++ to edit any files, don't use Notepad or Wordpad.

This turns off the extra error reporting in php 5.3 & 5.4 (for strict & deprecated warnings), but will allow other important errors to show.

[JJBB]

Hi there,
I got this mod installed recently but I'm having two problems which need some help here (vb4.2.2):

1, The 'Year' on create tournament date has capped to 2014. Am I doing something wrong on installing or Can I fix it somewhere?



2, The tournament stats on user postbit or profile are only updating the individual record. Team record doesn't count. Is this by design?



Thanks in advance!
JJBB

[pantasd]

I find solutions for me in Style Manager edit default template in Tournament and Ladders Templates ? edit tmnt_edit and tmnt_new

Just find <select name="year" title="year" tabindex="1"> and add new year

[MistViper]

I'm interested in downloading this, and even getting premium version. Only one questions though, would having people pay to enter be considered gambling? And if so wouldn't my site potentially get shut down if that is the case? Just a simple thought that came to my head, I appreciate any answers.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by MistViper

I'm interested in downloading this, and even getting premium version. Only one questions though, would having people pay to enter be considered gambling? And if so wouldn't my site potentially get shut down if that is the case? Just a simple thought that came to my head, I appreciate any answers.

Prize competition aren't classified as gambling. A prize competition is a competition where success depends to a substantial degree on the exercise of skill, knowledge, or judgment.
Gambling is where there is a significant reliance on chance.

[MistViper]

That makes sense, but I've talked to a lot of people because I'm interested in doing this and Riot Games (creator of League of Legends) has said that prize competitions are gambling and they do not allow them without licenses and all players must be above a certain age. So I think it would work, but the prizes can only be given to people above 18. What are your thoughts?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by MistViper

That makes sense, but I've talked to a lot of people because I'm interested in doing this and Riot Games (creator of League of Legends) has said that prize competitions are gambling and they do not allow them without licenses and all players must be above a certain age. So I think it would work, but the prizes can only be given to people above 18. What are your thoughts?

I guess it will depend what jurisdiction/ country you are in.

[xorlof]

This looks promising. I'm thinking of installing it, but have a few questions (none of which are dealbreakers):

1) Any hope for Swiss tournaments?

2) Can you setup the system so people can play without having to join teams (i.e., head-to-head games)

3) The premium version list, "Race mode for leagues" and "New tournament type - group play." What are these?

[Doc913]

Hello, I looking for the point where i can delete Categories.
I made a lot of Test -Categories and now i can't finde the way how to delete this.