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 ilbianconiglio

A great service is to allow the two competitor to upload own replay of the match.

Also, can you allow the competitor to report/approve the results?

Not at the moment.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by FireflyP2C

BTW is it possible to add more challegne options, and to have different challenge options for each ladder?

Added in next version

[Robbed]

One suggestion:

Would it be possible to make tournaments best out 3, 5, 7. On the tree you would be able to change the series every time someone wins then it would only advance after 2 , 3 , 4 wins depending on the series?

[Jimbolosey]

Originally Posted by bananalive

The above error is occuring due to a missing column in your mysql database. Table 'vbtmnt_ladders' is missing column 'groupid' with following details: int(10), NOT NULL, default value '0'.

Have you imported the latest product file, allowing over-write?

Yeah, I originally had 4.2.0, but that gave me all the errors. I tried the 4.2.1 beta and its working now.

*I think I got the version #s right...

[HighJinx]

We are in the online competitive gaming scene playing the likes of Call of Duty 4 and more and would like to get more involved with running cups/tournaments/ladders as do other gaming orgs, but most of the popular cup sites use webspell with its own cup addon, we would like to utilize our vb with your mod.

We have the Tournaments & Ladders Manager v4.2.0 mod installed on our site http://high-jinx.net/competitions.php, we are playing around with it until we go live, we have a few requests or ideas for a future version.

• edit each round or stage of a tournament
• add round 1, round 2, quarterfinal, semi-final, final plus an image insert
• manually move teams into tournament slots
• option to prefix teams with a branding name
• shorten the width of the tree background (possibly our style modification)
• add custom profile fields for the teams

Thanks in advance , a very good mod.

[bananalive]

Preview of Customisable Fields for Ladder Challenges
Available in v4.2.2+
Customisable per ladder
Default: 'Best of' & 'Map'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO1y5yhze1g

Edit: v4.2.2 also includes:

• Round names at top of each round/column
• admin can now add multiple players to tournaments (seperate each username by a semi colon ';'))
• other things...

[CharlieDelta]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Preview of Customisable Fields for Ladder Challenges
Available in v4.2.2+
Customisable per ladder
Default: 'Best of' & 'Map'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO1y5yhze1g

Awesome!!!

[ProFifaLeagues]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Preview of Customisable Fields for Ladder Challenges
Available in v4.2.2+
Customisable per ladder
Default: 'Best of' & 'Map'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO1y5yhze1g

Great news thanks for all the work you put in to this mod!!!!

[Nephalim]

This was awesome in my 3.8.6 forum just upgraded to 4 and all is good. But where do you now add team logos? There is no button or I'm just not seeing it

Thank you much


D'oh nevermind. My template skin is dark and did not see the edit button!

[Nephalim]

Hi. Using VB 4.0.5 and my Members can't see the 'Help' link for tournaments when logged in. But if they log out they can see it? Also, they can't signup as a free agent because they can't see the free agent link either. But when not logged in we can see it? How can I fix this?

Thank you much