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
Just noticed in a tournament bracket that on long usernames, the Regress Player option is hidden. It's not a problem right now as I don't need to regress the particular user, however it obviously could be an issue in the future. In the attached image, notice user xGRIDIRONxGURUx towards the bottom.
As well, just simply for a seamless look, it'd be nice to see the Regress Player image appear in front of the player's username and be the mirror image of the Advance Player. That's obviously just a personal aesthetic note but thought I'd mention it.
If you've got javascript enabled in your browser then the text should resize itself to fit the bracket width.
I just noticed a minor bug. The ladder system is displaying the wrong number of players. You can see it in the rankings here. There are 38 players as of this moment, and the rankings table itself gets the number of players correct. However, under Ladder Details it says "No of Players 40", in the Ladder Description it says "Total Players: 40", and in the Ladder Browser it shows the Ladder as having 40 players. I have a feeling this is caused by players joining and/or leaving and a variable not being properly updated somewhere.
Would it be safe to go ahead and start the league and the update will just add the remaining rounds without affecting the first 12 or should we wait to be safe?
Hey Banana, is there a way I can auto-check someone in for a tournament outside of the check-in timeframe? I have a few players who want to compete in my tournament that can make it to the start time but can't make it for check-in due to time conflicts. Do you know if there's a way I can manually check someone in, or could you add it in? Thanks.
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.
Hmm, it should go into appropriate time zone according to vbulletin user profile.
Would it be safe to go ahead and start the league and the update will just add the remaining rounds without affecting the first 12 or should we wait to be safe?
I just noticed a minor bug. The ladder system is displaying the wrong number of players. You can see it in the rankings here. There are 38 players as of this moment, and the rankings table itself gets the number of players correct. However, under Ladder Details it says "No of Players 40", in the Ladder Description it says "Total Players: 40", and in the Ladder Browser it shows the Ladder as having 40 players. I have a feeling this is caused by players joining and/or leaving and a variable not being properly updated somewhere.
It should have updated the numbers if they left/rejoined/etc. but i've added in an extra check in next version to remedy any situations when it does not occur.
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06-23-2011, 09:14 AM
