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 **

[betts02]

Originally Posted by bananalive

http://www.nextgenerationgamers.co.u...owonly=ladders appears to be working for me?

You might have needed to rebuild your caches after upgrade, but it's probably sorted itself out, by itself

Yes mate its sorted itself out, Many thanks

[betts02]

Just been looking at the LMS feature and was wondering is it possible to further this part ?

I want to run a Free For All event but it needs to be able to have "groups"

So 36 players enter the event

So you could have 6 groups
In each group it would have 6 players

The 6 players would play a game and the top 3 killers from each group would be moved to round 2

In round 2 it would be 18 players split in to 3 groups
This time it would be top 2 killers would advance to round 3

round 3 would be the last group of 6 players, the winner would then be total kills in the final group

[Potleg]

hi there thanks to replying to my post helped alot.

im launching the site on tuesday and i created a few tournaments and now the forums are just white pages: www.xglclan2012.co.uk/forum/forum.php

i dont know what could have happened do you have any ideas i can access the admincp url but the forums dont display.

any help much appreciated

[sutto]

Originally Posted by bananalive

1. AdminCP -> UserGroup Permissions -> {Edit Usergroup} -> Maximum number of teams a user can join

2. Yes, Team creators/leaders can delete their teams. Go to team profile.

3. Yes, Team leaders can promote their team players to co-leader or leader. Click members tab of your team profile page.

Thanks for that.

Another query. When created a 32 team Double Round Robin, it displays on the competition page only 18 available slots.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Potleg

hi there thanks to replying to my post helped alot.

im launching the site on tuesday and i created a few tournaments and now the forums are just white pages: www.xglclan2012.co.uk/forum/forum.php

i dont know what could have happened do you have any ideas i can access the admincp url but the forums dont display.

any help much appreciated

I get http 500 error going to your website?

Try disabling modifications until it starts working again

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by sutto

Thanks for that.

Another query. When created a 32 team Double Round Robin, it displays on the competition page only 18 available slots.

Maximum size for round robin and double round robin tournaments is 18. If you try creating a tournament larger than this, it will automatically re-size to 18 players.

[Falcoita]

Hello, how could i insert the tournament's rules on the premium version ?

thanks

Emiliano

[Bluefin221]

Probably a ridiculous question, but how do you create categories for teams and put them in it?

[Potleg]

thier isnt an option atm bluefin just categories for ladders,leaguesmn tourneys i hear itll be in an update.

also bannana i would like to see an group & knockout style format much like euro or world cup format. i tend to host a few ffa style tournaments just as text in forums atm.

also for the knockout boards themselves an option to have a clan/team logo displayed in the bracket to make it look abit nicer

[Potleg]

Originally Posted by bananalive

I get http 500 error going to your website?

Try disabling modifications until it starts working again

hi ive disabled all mods and its still the same no access to the site the admincp works fine but forums dotn display. i do notice that when i go to general settings > site info and put the url as forum.php itll add a second forum.php so itll look like http://www.xglclan2012.co.uk/forums/forum.php/forum.php

im gonna update vb to the recent one se eif that resolves anything