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 InfoAddict

I just started our LMS tournament, but there was no way for players to be able to challenge each other.

Is LMS not a "ladder" as I had assumed?

I can't create an actual "ladder", only "tournaments".

'lms' is short for 'last man standing'; it's a type of tournament, often used in on-line multiplayer shooting games

The ladder permissions are in a separate block in usergroup permissions, check them.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Robbed

Hopefully he can get this fixed up.

Another issue i notice with lms is when you edit a tournament and change the score type to (Singular Form eg. Point not Points) Kill etc . I don't see it show up anywhere.

Fixed for next release.

(It's meant to show up next to each player's score in LMS tournaments)

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by simonhind

May i ask how you actually play the LMS, what do players do after joining an LMS Tournament ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_man_standing_(gaming)

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Robbed

Another bug with the double elimnation tournament.

It looks like the 4 losers from the top bracket don't drop down to the bottom bracket. Everything else seems to work after that.

edit... looks like it works fine with 4 players. It only does it with 8 players.

I'll look into this

Edit: fixed for next release

[Gleedo]

Quick question - should you receive any kind of notification (email or pm) when you have been challenged?

[TheSupportForum]

Feature Request


please can you Add to this MOD FAQ Questions for the Tournaments and Ladder
so that visitors know how to play the game if they get stuck instead of directing them to a wiki

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Gleedo

Quick question - should you receive any kind of notification (email or pm) when you have been challenged?

Yes notification and pm

[Gleedo]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Yes notification and pm

Ah thats what I thought from using your 3.x version, but I have been challenged by two other teams and I had no notification sent to me

[Gleedo]

Originally Posted by Gleedo

Ah thats what I thought from using your 3.x version, but I have been challenged by two other teams and I had no notification sent to me

I also just installed this onto my new test forums which has just two users. I created two teams, one under each user account and joined both teams to the ladder. I then challenged one team and again had no notifications to the challenged team leaders pm

[stwan]

bananalive, please read:

Originally Posted by stwan

In ladder not joined (Bug in version 4.1.7):

and

Originally Posted by stwan

please make Words => in the phrase:

line 2571:

<label for="archive"><input name="archive" value="1" id="archive" <vb:if condition="$archive == 1">checked="checked"</vb:if> type="checkbox" /> Ladder is closed: Users cannot join or challenge in this ladder</label>

line 2572:

<div><label for="sticky"><input name="sticky" value="1" id="sticky" <vb:if condition="$sticky == 1">checked="checked"</vb:if> type="checkbox" /> Ladder is sticky: Ladder remains at top of ladder listings</label></div>

line 1476:

<label for="archive" title="Users cannot join/ comment in this tournament"><input name="archive" value="1" id="archive" <vb:if condition="$archive == 1">checked="checked"</vb:if> type="checkbox" /> Close Tournament</label>

line 1479:

<label for="sticky" title="Tournament remains at top of tournament listings"><input name="sticky" value="1" id="sticky" <vb:if condition="$sticky == 1">checked="checked"</vb:if> type="checkbox" /> Stick Tournament</label>

line 2434: (word "at")

{vb:rawphrase tmnt_lastedit} <a class="shade" href="member.php?u={vb:raw ladder.ed_userid}">{vb:raw ladder.ed_username}</a> at {vb:raw ladder.ed_time}

line 708:

<a href="tournaments.php?do=editcomment&amp;id={vb:raw comment.id}"<vb:if condition="$comment['ed_userid'] != '0'"> title="{vb:rawphrase tmnt_lastedit} {vb:raw comment.ed_username} at {vb:raw comment.ed_time}"</vb:if>>{vb:rawphrase edit}</a>

line 751:

<div class="shade">{vb:rawphrase tmnt_lastedit} <a class="shade" href="member.php?u={vb:raw tmnt.le_userid}">{vb:raw tmnt.le_username}</a> at {vb:raw tmnt.le_time}</div>