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 **

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by stwan

Bugs 4.2.1beta (Mozilla 3.6.8):

...

Fixed phrases and css bugs for v4.2.2

Youtube are now embedded using the new YouTube iframe embed (supporting HTML5)

Help page is now phrased.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by nosretap

Thanks for any help!

1- I have installed the mod and it doesn't give me the ability to create a ladder. I can create a tournament, but not a ladder.
http://media.gamehouse.com/m/GHBlog/...w%20Ladder.JPG

Any ideas why?

2- Also, I was an idiot and forgot to "upgrade" the mod from 2.8.4. I, instead, uninstalled the old one, and installed the new one with my vB 4.0* install so lost all of my data. I have a vb database backup from the day before, how hard is it to get the tmnt_* data from the "old" format and insert it in to the "new" one?

Thanks!

1. Usergroup permissions are split into two blocks: Tournament and Ladder Permissions and More Tournament and Ladder Permissions. Ladder permissions are in the latter.

2. The table structure for this modification has not changed very much since v2.8.4 so you should be able to get the data from your backup and add it via phpmyadmin.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by ilbianconiglio

Hi, I'm new to the vbulletin system.

I just installed this mod and it seems to works fine. Anyway I want to translate it to Italian.
How can I do it? Which is the best and scalable way?

Use the phrase manager in AdminCP, and translate each phrase.

All the phrases for this modification begin with either tmnt_ or ladder_

[stwan]

In version 4.2.1beta not corrected conflict with vBExpirience!

And bug:

Guests can not see Tournaments and Ladder, although the setting is right on the view...

[betts02]

Does the latest version work with more than 8 teams in the double elimination ?

And still coming back to see if any news on a league intergrated or stand alone

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by stwan

In version 4.2.1beta not corrected conflict with vBExpirience!

Did you try this:

Originally Posted by bananalive

the problem is with plugin vBExperience (links)] executed on hook location global_setup_complete

Change hook location from global_setup_complete to process_templates_complete and that should fix issue.

Originally Posted by stwan

In version 4.2.1beta not corrected conflict with vBExpirience!

And bug:

Guests can not see Tournaments and Ladder, although the setting is right on the view...

I cannot replicate this error.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by betts02

Does the latest version work with more than 8 teams in the double elimination ?

And still coming back to see if any news on a league intergrated or stand alone

No, not yet.

What is it you wanted from a league? I'm not really sure what a league is.

[FireflyP2C]

A league is where plays each other once ( or a set number of time ) in a season, with a set number of point for a win or draw. After everyone has played each other once the team with the most points wins. Like any football league in the world.

BTW is it possible to add more challegne options, and to have different challenge options for each ladder?

[betts02]

League system consists of this example :

6 x teams

Each team would have 1 match per week

Each team would play a Home and Away match

With a Home and Away match, that means each team would play the other team twice over the season

So the whole season for 6 teams would last 10 weeks

5 Home games
5 Away games

each score would be points set per win and draw
Optional settings for Points For and Against

This meaning if in football, 2 teams win/draw and end up on the same points at the end of the season

You take all the goals team a scored and take away all the goals they had against them

Same with team b

[nosretap]

Thanks, Bananalive, but I don't have a More Tournament and Ladder Permissions unless I am just not finding it! I have looked everywhere!

(Followup: found it in Usergroup Manager. Was looking in 'Settings'). Thanks!