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 **

[EasyEazy]

Also I dont think the ELO is working incorrectly. After playing games members are set to 25 elo for the win and 1 for the defeat. Anyone else having this?

[EasyEazy]

Tried to go back to the previous working version and its now doing the same. Hope you can help me out

[Boristheblade]

Originally Posted by 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

Any help with this would be appreciated.

As per these instructions

competitions.php -> \
ladders.php -> \
tournaments.php -> \
ajax_competitions.php -> \
javascript_competitions.js -> \clientscript\
functions_tal.php -> \includes\
bitfield_tournament2008.xml -> \includes\xml\
index.html -> \images\teamlogos\

I'm not 100% sure where the team logo and competition folder go. I put them in VB image folder and it still doesn't work.

Any help would be appreciated.

[champendk]

Originally Posted by Boristheblade

Any help with this would be appreciated.

As per these instructions

competitions.php -> \
ladders.php -> \
tournaments.php -> \
ajax_competitions.php -> \
javascript_competitions.js -> \clientscript\
functions_tal.php -> \includes\
bitfield_tournament2008.xml -> \includes\xml\
index.html -> \images\teamlogos\

I'm not 100% sure where the team logo and competition folder go. I put them in VB image folder and it still doesn't work.

Any help would be appreciated.

Have u got a link?

Or pm me i can help you set it up..

Best regards

[bananalive]

There will be a maintenance release, fixing issues with ladder elo-rating very soon. Anyone running v4.3.1 is advised to upgrade immediately.

If you find any other errors/bugs, let me know and I'll do my best to resolve them.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by 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

(AdminCP -> Usergroups -> Usergroup Manager -> {Select Usergroup} -> Tournament Permissions)

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by 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.

I'm afraid you can't at the moment, without manually editing your mysql database with phpmyadmin.

[bananalive]

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?

Fixed in v4.3.2

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by stwan

vBulletin 4.1.2 / Tournaments & Ladders Manager v4.3.1

xHTML 1.0 errors:

1 error in ...

Some of these have been fixed for v4.3.2 the rest will be fixed for next release.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by 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....

Elo rating in v4.3.2+ will no longer display calculator,etc. if disabled in t+l options.

In v4.3.2 you can xp for 1st place. Adding it for 2nd & 3rd place is harder, and may come in a future release.