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 **

[sutto]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Maximum size for round robin and double round robin tournaments is 18. If you try creating a tournament larger than this, it will automatically re-size to 18 players.

Is it possible for the system to support larger tournaments in future releases? Most if not all tournaments our website will run with have > 18 teams.

[CharlieDelta]

I get 404 page errors when trying to look at ladders and league categories.

http://www.canadianriflesregiment.com/crrforums/ladders.php&showonly=ladders

[Bluefin221]

Originally Posted by Potleg

thier isnt an option atm bluefin just categories for ladders,leaguesmn tourneys i hear itll be in an update.

also bannana i would like to see an group & knockout style format much like euro or world cup format. i tend to host a few ffa style tournaments just as text in forums atm.

also for the knockout boards themselves an option to have a clan/team logo displayed in the bracket to make it look abit nicer

That exists within the premium features I believe.

[Potleg]

ok ive upgraded to latest vb: http://www.xglclan2012.co.uk/forum/forum.php

managed to get forum workin i some form but its not showing a style maybe a style issue?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Potleg

ok ive upgraded to latest vb: http://www.xglclan2012.co.uk/forum/forum.php

managed to get forum workin i some form but its not showing a style maybe a style issue?

I'm not sure how you fix it, but it's something wrong with your setup:

http://www.xglclan2012.co.uk/forum/f...rmcontrols.css,

should be

http://www.xglclan2012.co.uk/forum/c...rmcontrols.css,


Try AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> Site Name / URL / Contact Details -> Forum URL:

http://www.xglclan2012.co.uk/forum

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[bananalive]

Originally Posted by CharlieDelta

I get 404 page errors when trying to look at ladders and league categories.

http://www.canadianriflesregiment.com/crrforums/ladders.php&showonly=ladders

Upgrade requires a rebuild of categories cache.

It looks like it's working now?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Bluefin221

Probably a ridiculous question, but how do you create categories for teams and put them in it?

AdminCP -> Competition Settings -> Team Settings -> Team Categories -> Yes

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[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Potleg

also bannana i would like to see an group & knockout style format much like euro or world cup format. i tend to host a few ffa style tournaments just as text in forums atm.

also for the knockout boards themselves an option to have a clan/team logo displayed in the bracket to make it look abit nicer

Knockout for leagues is premium feature.

To add avatars into bracket, edit:

AdminCP -> Competition Settings -> Tournament Settings -> Tournaments User HTML (including username)

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Falcoita

Hello, how could i insert the tournament's rules on the premium version ?

thanks

Emiliano

yoursite.com/forum/competitions.php?do=editrules

Or use bbcode [rules] within tournament/ladder/league description

[CharlieDelta]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Upgrade requires a rebuild of categories cache.

It looks like it's working now?

Thank you sir.
I guess I should have flushed the cache. Never thought of that.