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 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>

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<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>

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<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>

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

Line 3909:

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

("Update" in the phrase)

Implemented in v4.4.7

[EasyEazy]

Originally Posted by bananalive

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)

Before I update again will this setting take out the need for the scroll bars?

[stwan]

Thanks for the update!

In ladders.php?do=create_player_image is not displayed the button text.

[TinCow1]

Originally Posted by bananalive

v4.4.7

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

Superb, thanks!

Another upgrade that would be useful would be more flexible Moderator system. As it stands now, there are only two ways for people to be able to Moderate competitions. Competition creators can moderate their own, and people can be made 'global' moderators of all competitions. It would be useful if we could give specific moderator privileges on specific competitions.

For instance, I run large gaming competitions and I have a staff of other people that help me keep everything running smoothly. I need all of those people to be able to do things like create challenges and submit scores. The only way I can achieve that is to make them all Tournament Moderators, which gives them all privileges on all competitions. However, these people are only recruited to help out on specific competitions and I don't want them to make changes to any other competitions, nor do I like that they have the ability to delete the entire competition. I trust the people I have recruited, so the current situation is something I can live with, but it would be better if I had the ability to give privilege X to person/usergroup Y in competition Z.

[champendk]

+1 i would really like to see that feature along the line since we have the same issues.

Another feature i would like to se, is points for all matches played in tournaments added to the ladder assigned to . So when i choose to make a tournament and ad point for 1-3 place all other competitors still earn points per match won, without having to make challenges for each round in the tournament. Now its better not to waist time on tournaments if you dont get top 3, because they could win more point by doing normal challenges.

hope it makes sense..

Love what you did to the check-in

Good job as always

[Arthran]

I have to second what Champendk has said there, if there was an option to link a tournament to a ladder fully, and have every game in the tournament effect the ladder it would be amazing.

Also, do we have any eta on when double elimination will allow more than 8 players?

Much love for all the hard work on this, we wouldnt be successful without you!

[stwan]

Please make Words => in the phrase:

Line 2054:

<option title="time" value="0" class="">Midnight</option>

<option title="time" value="12" class="">Midday</option>

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<option title="time" value="0" class="">Midnight</option>

<option title="time" value="12" class="">Midday</option>

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<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>

[CharlieDelta]

Hi banana,
I have a little problem.
We created a league and teams have joined but we had to delete one team. When we start the league and are about to organise groups the deleted team is showing up. When you click on the team link it does state it invalid team.

How can I remove this team fully so we can start the league?

Thank you

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by CharlieDelta

Hi banana,
I have a little problem.
We created a league and teams have joined but we had to delete one team. When we start the league and are about to organise groups the deleted team is showing up. When you click on the team link it does state it invalid team.

How can I remove this team fully so we can start the league?

Thank you

Upload attached file to server (allow overwrite)

[TinCow1]

My large ladder recently started play, and I've got one minor problem that could use fixing, and one minor improvement suggested by a player.

For the problem, the players are just getting used to the system and somehow a pair of them submitted a 0-0 score for a match when it should have been 2-0. They fixed it by making a second match with the proper score, but now there's a 0-0 score sitting there for a match that didn't actually occur. I have no way of removing this match except manually editing the database. Would it be possible to add in a delete/edit option for matches that have already been submitted?

For the improvement, I have players from all over the world, so scheduling is a major issue for arranging matches. A player suggested that it would be nice if the times listed on Find Match and Upcoming Matches lists included the time zones that they were being listed for. At the moment, they just give a 24h time with no indication of which time zone it is in. Ideally, the time displayed would be the time zone the player has set in the forum profile, but if that's not possible a simple marker like EST (GMT-5) would be helpful.

Many thanks! The rest of the system is working very well and players find it easy to use. It's been a major improvement to our forums and will get a lot of use.