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 **

[otterag]

i have just installed this mod and i would like to say job well done, from playing with it for like 45 minutes i am really in love with it.

i do have a suggestion for the submission of win/draw/loss. if there is a way that when a player submits a result for the match that it messages the person they played for that match for a confirmation of results that would eliminate the need for moderator approval on match wins.

i would like to know if its possible to change "Ladder" to League. I would also like to know if there is a way to limit the number of games a player can play for rating each week and add bonus points to matches. right now my league is going to be 5 points for a win, 3 for a draw and 1 for a loss and i want to give the players bonus points for playing on certain days of the week and playing extra games during each scoring week.

also wanted to know if it was possible the mod was able to have a grid layout so that it looks like the rest of the webpage.

[hypex]

Originally Posted by bananalive

'Submit a Loss' is useful as people won't falsely submit a loss it doesn't need moderation or confirmation.

'Submit a Win' would need some form of moderation to prevent users falsely submitting the game as a win. If you or anyone else has any ideas on how it would work then let me know.

What you say makes sense. The issue I see is user behaviour. If i lose I'm not going to submit a lose as I no longer have interest since I'm eliminated from the tournament, thus holding up the process.

For the ESL (Starcraft 2) they allow either the winner or the loser to report the result. If the report is wrong the winner sends through the replay to fix the issue.

I guess if the loser doesn't report the loss, the winner has to get in contact with the moderator of the tournament and send through the reply anyway same as if a false win was reported.

I just believe people are more likely to make the effort to report a win then to report a loss.

Maybe make it an option where you can either report a loss or win?

[Dadoo]

Please find below french translation of Tournaments & Ladders Manager v4.3.1

This file contains only XML french phrases.

[champendk]

Thanks for the latest version...

Could you show me how to make a widget for the cms?

And i cant find any use for the elo system, and like the one posted earlier much better. How do i remove the elo calculator, and elo from the random player box ?

1 big request

I really like the option to make tournaments where winner gets ELO points awarded to the ladder ,BUT could you make it with xp and for no. 1-2-3 ?

It would mean the world....

[stwan]

vBulletin 4.1.2 / Tournaments & Ladders Manager v4.3.1

xHTML 1.0 errors:

1 error in competitions.php?do=viewteam&id=1 (dublicate ID profile_tabs)

Bugs:

1. In Team Attachment 127182

2. In section ladder/tournament Attachment 127183
and link to the player's nickname: competitions.php?do=viewteam&id=

3. Attachment 127184

4.

Line 3012:

<h2 class="blockhead">{vb:rawphrase ladder_chlls}</h2>

replace:

<h2 class="blockhead">{vb:rawphrase ladder} {vb:rawphrase ladder_chlls}</h2>

[EasyEazy]

Any great update. Many thanks for the work you do.

I do however have an error. When i leave a ladder i get a error message even though it still removes me from the ladder.

Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in [path]/ladders.php on line 1835

Any ideas?

[HighJinx]

Request

when creating a tournament can i suggest a feature to add images to the each round

eg.

Round 1

Crash



many thanks in advance

[Boristheblade]

Thank you for making this mod. I just made the move to Vbulletin and I'm learning ho things work.

I have installed it on a test forum that doesn't have any other mods or skins aside from default.

Right now when I click on competitions in the bar I get a permission issue.

"you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation."

I went through every permission setting I could find and nothing seems to help.
Any help would be appreciated.

Mike

[hyperviperx99]

How do we change the win/loss record, or start matches with it?

I'm new to this so please someone let me know. I would really appreciate it.

[EasyEazy]

Originally Posted by EasyEazy

Any great update. Many thanks for the work you do.

I do however have an error. When i leave a ladder i get a error message even though it still removes me from the ladder.

Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in [path]/ladders.php on line 1835

Any ideas?

And also get the following error when submitting a result

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.1:

Invalid SQL:

UPDATE vbtmnt_ladder_players
SET draws = draws + 1, wstreak = 0, lstreak = 0, latime =1299505577, rank = 1, uod = 1, totalpoints = totalpoints + 0, longeststreak = , xp = xp + 2
WHERE lid = 5 AND userid = 7;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' xp = xp + 2
WHERE lid = 5 AND userid = 7' at line 2


This is after a upgrade from the previous version. Seems as if the draws are not being entered into the database as its not showing

Could you please help me