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 **

[stwan]

Feature Requests for Teams

In Statistics:

Lost tournaments
Tournaments in a draw

In Contacts

Methods of communication with the creator of the team: ICQ, Skype etc.

In Additional information

Game server: IP: port
Convenient time to play the team
So-lider: Nickname

[hoochblues]

Originally Posted by bananalive

2. Are you using the new layout or the old one? The 'Maximum Description Length' option is the maximum description preview length to be shown throughout this modification

Actually I was referring to the post made in the forum defined in "Create Thread" of Tournament and Ladders Options in Settings. Are only Tournaments posted there? Not Ladders?

Also, I have been trying to use HTML in the Ladder Descriptions when I define a ladder. Tables primarily. Can that be done?

Thanks!!!

Love this mod!

[OttawaGolf]

Request to please add a way to control the landing page selection.

Currently lands at competitions.php?
I'd like to be able to have it land at competitions.php?c=3

That would be awesome!

Nice mod BTW :-)

[OttawaGolf]

Looks like there is a bit of an issue (for me anyway) with the creating teams form section. The screen scrolls a vey long way to the right. The form is in the center, but it is so far right it can easily be missed. Something is amiss with the container.

I am using a div to "frame" the page but it does not affect other pages.
http://forum.ottawagolf.com/competitions.php?

It is messed up for me on Win7 & IE9. Same thing for one of my users on IE8 (I assume win7)

It is working fine for me on a system here running xp and IE8. Works in Safari, Chrome and Firefox too.

Any ideas?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by OttawaGolf

Looks like there is a bit of an issue (for me anyway) with the creating teams form section. The screen scrolls a vey long way to the right. The form is in the center, but it is so far right it can easily be missed. Something is amiss with the container.

I am using a div to "frame" the page but it does not affect other pages.
http://forum.ottawagolf.com/competitions.php?

It is messed up for me on Win7 & IE9. Same thing for one of my users on IE8 (I assume win7)

It is working fine for me on a system here running xp and IE8. Works in Safari, Chrome and Firefox too.

Any ideas?

The page is XHTML valid, so it should display fine on all modern browsers. I'm afraid I'm not really sure whether it is windows 7 or some other factor causing the problem.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by OttawaGolf

Request to please add a way to control the landing page selection.

Currently lands at competitions.php?
I'd like to be able to have it land at competitions.php?c=3

That would be awesome!

Nice mod BTW :-)

Open competitions.php

Find line 2798

PHP Code:

$c = $vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('g', 'c', TYPE_UINT); 


Add below

PHP Code:

if (!$c)
{
$c = 3;
} 


Save competitions.php

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by hoochblues

Actually I was referring to the post made in the forum defined in "Create Thread" of Tournament and Ladders Options in Settings. Are only Tournaments posted there? Not Ladders?

Yes, that is currently for tournaments only. As of v4.3.4+ it will create a new thread for ladders as well.

Also, I have been trying to use HTML in the Ladder Descriptions when I define a ladder. Tables primarily. Can that be done?

Thanks!!!

Love this mod!

Only bbcode is allowed, but there is a [table] bb code available.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by betts02

When i go to create a ladder/tournament

Its ok now but if i click to "Join User Tables to User Profile Tables" it just takes me to a database error

I do not have this option clicked atm due to the error and it works fine, But as stated if i click to have the option

I get the error as soon as i click to create an event

Can you view page source, and post the mysql error here please

[OttawaGolf]

Thanks that did it. It would be nice to be able to set that in admin :-)

Originally Posted by bananalive

Open competitions.php
......
Save competitions.php

[OttawaGolf]

Originally Posted by bananalive

The page is XHTML valid, so it should display fine on all modern browsers. I'm afraid I'm not really sure whether it is windows 7 or some other factor causing the problem.

It was worth a try....

Same problem on tournaments comments page.