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 **

[hoochblues]

Originally Posted by bananalive

vBulletin Options -> BB Code Settings -> Allow BB Code in Non Forum Specific Areas

Already set to "Yes". But the bb code for tables didn't take.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by betts02

I have not fully tested this but i have recently installed a fresh version

Is it possible to let team leaders submit the results of a tournament ?

If both teams have different scores can it send a PM to all users with permissions to edit scores
If scores are correct from both teams can it automatically put the winner through and add the scores

This happens for ladders at the moment.

Originally Posted by betts02

And if possible a League system would be great, I would even pay towards that

Cheers for the great works mate

I'm developing the league at the moment, just got to work on how to place players/teams in groups, depending on their position in their previous league season.

[betts02]

Originally Posted by bananalive

This happens for ladders at the moment.
I'm developing the league at the moment, just got to work on how to place players/teams in groups, depending on their position in their previous league season.

Will it be coming so teams/players can do this in tournaments ?

Also maybe have an option to drop/promote 1/2/3 teams/players
If not let the admins do this, As long as the league works admins can place teams into each division if they choose to

[Frost5]

Great mod.

[shoer76]

Is there a way to get 64 players in double elimination instead of just 8?

[champendk]

Originally Posted by bananalive

This happens for ladders at the moment.
I'm developing the league at the moment, just got to work on how to place players/teams in groups, depending on their position in their previous league season.

Cant wait....


Make sure that there will be a option to make teams re-register(not start all over but kind of check-in) for every season, as people tent to drop out. This will secure that all teams are ready for the next season, and you won?t have a 2. devision with 2 teams and 12 in 3. devision.

[OttawaGolf]

One of our users created a team name that contained an apostrophe and a question mark which caused a server error when he tried to have that team join a tournament. We renamed the team and he joined successfully.
Problem is he tried 5 times unsuccessfully and the number of available team spots was reduced by 5. I can't find a way to put the 5 team spots back.
Your assistance would be appreciated.

[Lord. Dela]

Congratulations bananalive. I have some question..

I need your help

As I can do to make when I go to Match Finder, appears the name of the player nominated and not only the date?

I would appreciate very much, is what I need to use this system, thanks.

[Gamelobby]

FYI 4.3.2 still shows. (and version list is out dated)

[WaterAir]

As Game said, it still says the previous version.

Also, I am having some issues of my own. This looks like an amazing mod and I am excited about trying to work the current bugs out. If anyone could help me out or let me know if these are known bugs it'd be great!

Issue 1: Can't post match comments. (as seen in attachment t1 and t2)

Issue 2: Can't dispute a match in the teams ladder. (as seen in attachment t1)

Issue 3: Match isn't added to match finder when I create a match finder challenge. (as seen in attachment t3)

Issue 4: EDIT: This issue seems to work fine on another PC, disregard the last 2 attachment files.

Thanks for the help in advance and I'm looking forward to new updates!

Oh! and a really nice feature that I think would be somewhat easy to add would be a simple link (either at the top as a sublink under Teams or left side bar) that says "My Teams" that you could click to see which teams you're on... either that or add something to the vB profile that links a players team with their profile.