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]

Please wait 1307797583 hours between challenging the same player/team.

I have this set via admin to 24 hours and getting the above, Any idea ?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by betts02

Please wait 1307797583 hours between challenging the same player/team.

I have this set via admin to 24 hours and getting the above, Any idea ?

I've fixed this error in next version.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by cdj

Additionally, I saw your video for customizable fields in ladder challenges, however I don't find where to create those customizable fields.

Thanks in advance.

Navigate to ladder.

Click 'Edit Ladder'

Then edit 'Challenge Extra Fields'

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by EasyEazy

Installed the new update today.

I see you made changes to the tournament layout. From a personal point of view I didn't like it as it brought into play scrolling bars on the larger brackets. Is there a way to remove them and go back to the 4.4.4 look? had a play with the settings and couldnt really figure it out.

Keep up the good work

The new brackets are alot more efficient for your server and user.

I'm afraid there is no way to revert to old bracket system, but you can alter in Tournament Bracket Width (vbulletin settings -> tournaments & ladder settings)

[ProFifaLeagues]

Having the latest results shown in the forum block like Betts mentioned would be a superb addition If that is do-able Banana

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Arthran

Couple of questions/suggestions/feature requests.

I really need/could do with a way of changing permissions on a whole season, or possibly just a league. I'm running a set of leagues with 2 seasons a year, so i've grouped all the leagues into a season and would like to be able to restrict access to this season to only paid members.

Which brings me into point 2, Pay to play. My current solution is to use vBulletin's built in payment system to change people into a specific user group. The problem then would be regulating access to the leagues based on a user group. Any suggestions or assistance on this one?

Ladder/League Usergroup Permissions

For ladder/league with url: http://www.yoursite.com/forums/ladde...?do=view&id=22

AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Add New Plugin:

• Hook Location: easy_forms_post_form_start
  
• Title: Ladder 22 Usergroup Permissions
  
• Exec Order: 5
  
• Plugin PHP Code:
  
• PHP Code:

  if ($id == 22 && !is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, 6))[*]{[*]print_no_permission();[*]} 

• Active: Yes

Replace 6 with appropriate Usergroup id of usergroup you wish to have permission to view ladder / league.

Last one is simply that with tournaments you can have people signing up before the start of the tournament, but with leagues this isnt allowed, and people only seem to be able to sign up once the league has started. Again if we're advertising a league in advance of its start (Because it's a paid entry/prize fund league) then we'd like people to be able to sign up before the start date.

Any suggestions or assistance on these points?

Thanks

I'll try and reconfigure this a bit for next version.

[stwan]

Please make Words => in the phrase:

Line 5836 - 5847

	<label for="checkin">Require Competitors to Check-in</label>
		<div>
			<select name="checkin" id="checkin">
				<option value="0"{vb:raw tmnt.sel.checkin.0}>No Check-in Required</option>
				<option value="600" {vb:raw tmnt.sel.checkin.600}>10 minutes before tournament starts</option>
				<option value="1200" {vb:raw tmnt.sel.checkin.1200}>20 minutes before tournament starts</option>
				<option value="1800" {vb:raw tmnt.sel.checkin.1800}>30 minutes before tournament starts</option>
				<option value="3600" {vb:raw tmnt.sel.checkin.3600}>1 hour before tournament starts</option>
				<option value="7200" {vb:raw tmnt.sel.checkin.7200}>2 hour before tournament starts</option>
			</select>
		</div>
		<p class="description">This requires players to check in here before tournament, otherwise they will be removed from the tournament.</p>

[bananalive]

v4.4.7

- Bug fixes
- Split admincp settings for easier access
- Check-in phrasing
- Ladder userhtml

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by stwan

Please make Words => in the phrase:

Done in latest version.

[stwan]

Please make Words => in the phrase:

Line 3816:

Create a dynamically updating image with your ladder/league statistics, perfect for your signature or profile.

Line 3832:

This ladder/league has no players yet...

Line 3839:

<label for="bw">Border</label>

Line 3852:

<label for="bw">Width</label>

Line 3853:

<input type="text" value="{vb:raw var.bw}" id="bw" name="bw" class="textbox numeric" maxlength="2" size="3" onchange="this.form.submit();" /> px

("px" in the phrase)


Line 3862:

<label for="w">Dimensions</label>

Line 3866:

<input type="text" value="{vb:raw var.w}" id="w" name="w" class="textbox numeric" maxlength="4" size="3" onchange="this.form.submit();" /> px

Line 3869:

<label for="h">Height</label>

Line 3870:

<input type="text" value="{vb:raw var.h}" id="h" name="h" class="textbox numeric" maxlength="4" size="3" onchange="this.form.submit();" /> px

Line 3875:

<label for="noavatar">Show Avatar</label>

Line 3884:

<label for="bg">HEX Color of</label>

Line 3887:

<label for="bg">Background</label>

Line 3892:

<label for="c">Text</label>

Line 3898:

<span style="float: left;">Preview</span>

Line 3902:

<span style="float: left;">BB Code</span>

Line 3909:

<input class="button" type="submit" value="Update" />

("Update" in the phrase)