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 **

[Robbed]

Hopefully he can get this fixed up.

Another issue i notice with lms is when you edit a tournament and change the score type to (Singular Form eg. Point not Points) Kill etc . I don't see it show up anywhere.

[Robbed]

Another bug with the double elimnation tournament.

It looks like the 4 losers from the top bracket don't drop down to the bottom bracket. Everything else seems to work after that.

edit... looks like it works fine with 4 players. It only does it with 8 players.

[Kr33p3r]

Adding dome more needed features. Unless I am missing the way way to do it.

1. Link challenge option to profile
2. Link Challenge option to post bit
3. Allow searching of ladder members (with 128 members, how are you supposed to find people?)

Originally Posted by Kr33p3r

I have some suggestions. I am willing to donate for these features.

1. Link ladders and tournaments. This way ladders can move and track for tournaments.
2. Display ladder information in tournament under username.
3. Allow matchmaking based on tournaments.
4. Allow custom fields (team name, race, etc.)

[kasht]

Originally Posted by Robbed

Another bug with the double elimnation tournament.

It looks like the 4 losers from the top bracket don't drop down to the bottom bracket. Everything else seems to work after that.

edit... looks like it works fine with 4 players. It only does it with 8 players.

Hi Robbed,

Are you talking about the 4 losers after the first round of matches? If so, the losers are not supposed to go to the bottom of the bracket. Everybody gets carried to the side, winners to winners side and losers to losers side. Now, the players that lose during winners round 1 from the top of the bracket go down, and viceversa. For winners round 2 the players get passed to the opposite side as they are, and for round 3 it is same as round 1.

You can see how this works by downloading TIO, available here: http://allisbrawl.com/tio/

It is a free software used to run double elimination video game tournaments. It is a great tool, and you can see its behavior by playing around with it.

Or maybe you meant to say exactly what Im saying here...

[Robbed]

Originally Posted by kasht

Hi Robbed,

Are you talking about the 4 losers after the first round of matches? If so, the losers are not supposed to go to the bottom of the bracket. Everybody gets carried to the side, winners to winners side and losers to losers side. Now, the players that lose during winners round 1 from the top of the bracket go down, and viceversa. For winners round 2 the players get passed to the opposite side as they are, and for round 3 it is same as round 1.

You can see how this works by downloading TIO, available here: http://allisbrawl.com/tio/

It is a free software used to run double elimination video game tournaments. It is a great tool, and you can see its behavior by playing around with it.

Or maybe you meant to say exactly what Im saying here...

Well that's how it works for 4 players it moves the losers to the bottom bracket then the losers of round 2 end up meeting them.

It just doesn't do that when you select 8 players. If they didn't go to the bottom bracket they would be out first round.

[kasht]

OK, take a look at an 8 man bracket here:

http://www.insidepoolmag.com/documen...%20Bracket.pdf

That will show you visually what I'm talking about.

EDIT: Found a 16 man double elim bracket so you can see how it is for later rounds: http://www.insidepoolmag.com/documents/16_double.pdf

[Robbed]

Have you tried it with this software. The bracket looks a lot different .

[kasht]

Not yet, I was waiting on official support for double elimination brackets. I will however install it tonight and see what it looks like.

There is another really good mod for tournaments, made by Jaxel, but he hasn't made it available for VBulletin 4. His mod includes support to TIO files, and automatically embeds the files to create a bracket in Vbulletin. Pretty neat!

[Robbed]

I attached the image. This only happens with 8 players.

As you see after i advance some rounds the bottom bracket didn't get filled with the 4 losers from the top bracket like it's suppose to.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by midnz

Using Tournaments & Ladders version 4.1.7 on vB 4.0.5:

We just finished our first LMS Tournament and I had problems entering the scores because the "Edit" seems to be missing (where scores are entered).

(image from an earlier version of T&A on vB3.6.8)




I had to use .php?do=editplayer&id=XXX in my browser address bar and scrolled through the numbers (XXX) to find the players who needed points attributed to them before I closed the LMS off.

Fixed for next version.

For now, double clicking a score allows you to quickly edit it.