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 **

[Te?my?]

I deleted a tournament but it still shows in the hall of fame the scores from that tourney. ie the player who won still shows the win and all the players have +1 in tourney's entered. How would i go about deleting those entries, which tables would i need to edit to remove those?

Any help would be appreciated.

Also it is not possible to edit the tournement comments it saves the original comment, not the edited version, i think i have all the correct permissions.

EDIT: im actually trying to edit someone elses comment, i am admin/owner of the forum, altho i cant even edit my own comments.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Te?my?

I deleted a tournament but it still shows in the hall of fame the scores from that tourney. ie the player who won still shows the win and all the players have +1 in tourney's entered. How would i go about deleting those entries, which tables would i need to edit to remove those?

Any help would be appreciated.

Also it is not possible to edit the tournement comments it saves the original comment, not the edited version, i think i have all the correct permissions.

EDIT: im actually trying to edit someone elses comment, i am admin/owner of the forum, altho i cant even edit my own comments.

The HOF is based of number of wins, according to the user table. Columns tmnt_wins, tmnt_joins

The comment issue is to do with the WYSIWYG editor, but will be fixed in v4.2.7+

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by rammieone

thanks mate thats helped me no end!!!!
Loving this match finder

Good to hear.

Will there be a way a player can get a pm when a match up is made on the match finder(for when a player takes on there challenge)

The player should already be getting a PM as soon as someone accepts their match from the match finder.

Also is there a way im missing that when a challenge on the ladder has been set it can auto post this up in the forum as well ???

Not at the moment.

[ProFifaLeagues]

Thanks Banana,Do you expect to incule an option so that the challenges can be posted to a thread in the forum too mate?

Again a superb mod and one which keeps us using it over and over thank you

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by rammieone

Thanks Banana,Do you expect to incule an option so that the challenges can be posted to a thread in the forum too mate?


Again a superb mod and one which keeps us using it over and over thank you

Maybe at later date but not in the next version.

[ProFifaLeagues]

Cheers for letting us know mate and keep up the great work

[Te?my?]

Originally Posted by bananalive

The HOF is based of number of wins, according to the user table. Columns tmnt_wins, tmnt_joins

The comment issue is to do with the WYSIWYG editor, but will be fixed in v4.2.7+

Thanx for the help, i managed to remove those entries and also thanx for a superb mod, keep up the fantastic work

[Shadawg]

I'm liking the new top navigation and rules tab. However, I can't seem to figure out how to edit the Rules tab with the top navigation enabled. Is it possible or do I have to enable the sidebar for now to edit it?

Also, will we be able to edit the rules for each ladder or tournament to fit that event? or Does this show up the same for all events?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Shadawg

I'm liking the new top navigation and rules tab. However, I can't seem to figure out how to edit the Rules tab with the top navigation enabled. Is it possible or do I have to enable the sidebar for now to edit it?

Also, will we be able to edit the rules for each ladder or tournament to fit that event? or Does this show up the same for all events?

If you look at the main navbar at the top, Rules is second from the left. Once you click that, you can click 'Edit'.
Attachment 126299

The rules tab is the same for all ladders and all tournaments.

[yin9]

Hi all, thanks bananalive for this mod. I'm using version 4.2.5.

I have a little problem with the error message when double elimination is created with more of 8 players.

The error is in tournaments.php, is this:

	if ($tmnt['noplayers']>8 && $tmnt['type']=='de')
	{
		print_r('<font size="+2" color="red">Error!!! Double Elimination tournaments are in Beta and so only support up to 8 players!!!</font>');
	}

Show me the message outside template (in the top) and this deform my forums structure, could like place this message into the template?

Thank you very much, I really like this mod.