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 **

[CharlieDelta]

Hi Banana the upcoming matchs dropdown now shows 14 rounds but all rounds after 12 are showing as 12. In otherwords Round 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,12,12.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by CharlieDelta

Hi Banana the upcoming matchs dropdown now shows 14 rounds but all rounds after 12 are showing as 12. In otherwords Round 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,12,12.

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[CharlieDelta]

Originally Posted by bananalive

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Thank you. :up: Fixed the rounds themselves but the dropdown selection is still 12,12,12.
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[bananalive]

Originally Posted by CharlieDelta

Thank you. :up: Fixed the rounds themselves but the dropdown selection is still 12,12,12.
See attached.
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Sorry hopefully this time it'll be fully fixed

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[bananalive]

Originally Posted by TinCow1

How do I find the match id for an already completed match? I can't find that info anywhere in the Recent Matches list.

Added link for you. It is next to the comments, when expanded.

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[CharlieDelta]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Sorry hopefully this time it'll be fully fixed

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:up: Perfect!

No need to apologize banana. You are one of the best coders out there and your support is bar none. Great work!

[TinCow1]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Added link for you. It is next to the comments, when expanded.

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Thanks, but that only lets me delete matches on the first 'page' of the results. The button does not appear for anything that is hidden under 'Older Matches.' The ones I need to delete are now buried under about 30 other results.

[Killerhands]

Hey Banana, any way you think you can make the check-in thing a bit more prominent? My registrants have complained it's hard to find on the webpage, think you can turn it into a big button and put it in an obvious place or what?

Also, it'd be nice to do the save thing for the "Join Tournament" text link. I think it should be a button that's really obvious on the page itself.

Just some suggestions S:

[TinCow1]

I just came across another simple improvement that would be useful: adding the PM All Competitors button to ladders and leagues. Not all my players read the main discussion thread for my ladder, but I'd like to notify them of a minor rule change. The ability to send out a mass-PM like we can for tournaments would be nice.

[cdj]

I can't seem to figure out how to setup a 12 player tournament with proper seeding (ie 1 vs Bye, 8 vs 9, etc.) The main problem I seem to be running into is that there isn't a way to move around the Bye positions. Anytime I try to manually type Bye into the username, it says not a valid username. Can anyone shed some light as to what I'm doing wrong?