Major Additions - Forum Tournaments & Ladders

[Script Demo] [Version History]
Compatible with 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x

Tournament Description:
Users or teams can join tournaments. Once full the tournament starts. In single elimination tournaments competitors progress through rounds of tournament with the number of rounds depending on the number of players in tournament which is set on tournament creation. Last Man Standing Tournaments also supported.
[Screenshot of Single Elimination Tournament (Slightly outdated)]

Ladder Description:
Users or teams can also 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:

• 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
  • 2 Tournament Modes: Last Man Standing and Single Elimination
  • 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
  • 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
• 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
• 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
  • Category displays in navbar when viewing ladder/ tournament

Installation:

1. Follow instructions included in .zip
2. If you are using v3.6.x you will need to download this product file and import it
   (It contains memberinfo css which is used in profile comments in v3.7.x and is in used in Tournaments Comments and Team Profiles)
3. Click Install

Future Features:

• Add more Different Tournament Types (Double Elimination and Round Robin)
• Allowing a player to only join one team per ladder
• Use 3.7/3.8 notification system
• My Teams page
• Easy way to Re-arrange users in tournament
• Limit number of challenges per week/day
• Ladder match finder
• Custom message included in challenge pm sent to user

Donations:

• If you want to donate please click 'Support Developer'

Translations:

• German/ Deutsch http://www.vbulletin-germany.org/showthread.php?t=5594
• French/ fran?aise http://www.vbulletin-ressources.com/...itions-t15101/

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by baco84

here is the error



do you have any ideas???

What browser are you using?

[BlueNinjaGo]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Coming in next version

Awesome... is there any way i can manually edit the brackets? Reason being, the tournaments we're hosting take place over Xbox Live, and for some reason sometimes people can't connect. I know it's not a real feature, but is there coding anywhere where I can just go in and switch the names around?

I'm sorry if I'm nagging too much.

(Also, nominated MOTM... by far the best improvement I've made to the site so far this year)

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by BlueNinjaGo

Awesome... is there any way i can manually edit the brackets? Reason being, the tournaments we're hosting take place over Xbox Live, and for some reason sometimes people can't connect. I know it's not a real feature, but is there coding anywhere where I can just go in and switch the names around?

I'm sorry if I'm nagging too much.

(Also, nominated MOTM... by far the best improvement I've made to the site so far this year)

Tournament Tools -> Swap Players

[baco84]

Originally Posted by bananalive

What browser are you using?

ie 6.. it's old, i know... tomorrow i'll download firefox, and i'll try with it... but anyway it's a very unusual error...

[BlueNinjaGo]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Tournament Tools -> Swap Players

Oh, ok! I thought that was to swap players in the tournament for players not in the tournament.... *facepalm*

[Skyrider]

Any specific reason why I can't leave nor remove someone from a team?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by FF|Skyrider

Any specific reason why I can't leave nor remove someone from a team?

Team Leader's can remove player(s) from their team, the option for player to leave team is coming soon (probably next release)

[Skyrider]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Team Leader's can remove player(s) from their team, the option for player to leave team is coming soon (probably next release)

What about admins? Can't they force someone to remove them from the team?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by FF|Skyrider

What about admins? Can't they force someone to remove them from the team?

No.

[bananalive]

v2.8.0 is now available to download and test. As long as no problems are found, v2.8.0 will be released as non-BETA.

v2.8.0: 8 April 2009
- Added website, gamertag fields for teams
- Improved layout for Ladder Challenges (team section)
- Pop-up on team profile with tournaments joined/ won
- Reduced queries on Tournament Display by 1 (or 2 if there are no comments)
- No of comments in Tournament Details
- Team members can 'Leave Team'
- Tournament/ Ladder Categories
- Split competitions.php into: competitions.php, tournaments.php and ladders.php