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 **

[champendk]

Is it possible to remove the timezone chooser and have the mod depend ón the VB time setup ?

[betts02]

Just purchased the Pro version but wanted to know when you update your mod here do you do it on your site also ?

If its only on here do i just overwrite on upload ?

Cheers

Also i would love to see some option if possible for like a Formula 1 league

10 players play and all report the position they finished in that race
The following race the same again,etc,etc

[sutto]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Are those transactions purchases of credits?

correct

[sutto]

Originally Posted by sutto

Feature Request:

Ability to open a Ladder so teams can join up however cannot start challenging other teams, until either an admin enables it, or a certain date is met.

Hey Dom,

Are you able to advise if this has made your feature list!?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by betts02

Just purchased the Pro version but wanted to know when you update your mod here do you do it on your site also ?

If its only on here do i just overwrite on upload ?

Cheers

Also i would love to see some option if possible for like a Formula 1 league

10 players play and all report the position they finished in that race
The following race the same again,etc,etc

The latest version of premium version is available here:
http://bananalive.org/shop/index.php...count/download
(When you click download it will always download latest version.)

[Morpheuss89]

bananalive imho is better if u use in your site a system for bugs report / feature request and use vb.org only for answer to who need help to make (or customize) something.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by sutto

Hey Dom,

Are you able to advise if this has made your feature list!?

Yep, it's quick addition, so I'll add it into next version.

[betts02]

Originally Posted by bananalive

The latest version of premium version is available here:
http://bananalive.org/shop/index.php...count/download
(When you click download it will always download latest version.)

I downloaded this today from your site but what i wanted to know is how will i know when its been updated ?

Via your site or here ?

Cheers and any news on a Formula 1 league sort of thing ?
Even if its a paid extra

Cheers again

[Bluefin221]

Originally Posted by killerbeez

I think the new version broke the time zones.

I had it set to 4pm Central, I just double checked and it is set to 4pm and my account is set to central time zone but the tournament says it starts at 11am.

Dropped you a PM about something....

[EBZ2010]

I see 5.9.7 showing on facebook, but not available for download yet. When will this be available?