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 **

[Trek]

A few more things. These might be part of the styling issues you mentioned, but the "Display Order" and "Controls" columns when viewing categories appear to be swapped with each other.

Also, you can change the display order on that screen, but there's no way to save the new order. (editing the categories works fine though, so not too big a deal).

When creating a new tournament, it says the time should be entered in GMT+0. Any way you can make that so it defaults to the member creating it's timezone? Basically GMT+0 it in the background? Less confusion that way.

Another bug:

When editing the rules, you can't save them. You only have an "Edit" and "Cancel" button when editing the rules. Clicking "Edit" returns you to the main competitions page without saving.

[KHALIK]

Originally Posted by bananalive

All fixed in latest version (v4.0.3)

Thank you, I will keep you updated.

[PjDaBadMan]

cant wait for this to leave the BETA stage... will surely download and install ;D

[Revvin]

Great work! thanks for your continued work on this mod

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Trek

Found one small bug.

The auto insert into quicklinks doesn't appear to work. Nice work as always though, thanks!

Thanks, added in next version

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Trek

A few more things. These might be part of the styling issues you mentioned, but the "Display Order" and "Controls" columns when viewing categories appear to be swapped with each other.

Also, you can change the display order on that screen, but there's no way to save the new order. (editing the categories works fine though, so not too big a deal).

When creating a new tournament, it says the time should be entered in GMT+0. Any way you can make that so it defaults to the member creating it's timezone? Basically GMT+0 it in the background? Less confusion that way.

Another bug:

When editing the rules, you can't save them. You only have an "Edit" and "Cancel" button when editing the rules. Clicking "Edit" returns you to the main competitions page without saving.

Thanks, fixed category column and editing rules in next version

I will look into re-doing the tournament date+time after all the bugs and styling has been done.

[Sayid]

Many thanks for bringing this to vB4
Can we upgrade from 38 version of this mod without losing any data or everything will gone?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Sayid

Many thanks for bringing this to vB4
Can we upgrade from 38 version of this mod without losing any data or everything will gone?

Yes, if you run an upgrade then no data will be lost.

[PjDaBadMan]

Do you have an estimate on when this will be out of the BETA version? Just dont want to install when there are bugs.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by PjDaBadMan

Do you have an estimate on when this will be out of the BETA version? Just dont want to install when there are bugs.

v4.0.5 will be last beta version. Non-beta will be available for download on Monday or Tuesday