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 **

[killerbeez]

I do not want tournaments to start automatically when it fills up. I want it to start only when the date/time I set. Since I need to organize things with it. I also want to do a double elimination with teams but I want extra teams to be able to sign up so if some do not check in, then another team can get slotted in.

This is a big deal about the tournament starting automatically.

(Premium User)

[IGCEMA]

Originally Posted by killerbeez

I do not want tournaments to start automatically when it fills up. I want it to start only when the date/time I set. Since I need to organize things with it. I also want to do a double elimination with teams but I want extra teams to be able to sign up so if some do not check in, then another team can get slotted in.

This is a big deal about the tournament starting automatically.

(Premium User)

I like the waiting list idea as well. Especially when you are doing large events teams will drop out it would be nice to be able to add them from the waiting list as they registered.

[bananalive]

^ Tournament reserves will be added into next version.

[killerbeez]

What about the automatic starting? Can we get an option to turn that off and only start when the time/date listed is hit.

It's pretty game breaking for us currently. We have a sponsor and teams expecting the tournament to start a month from now and it started on it's own so now even reserves can't sign up.

[holzy40]

Originally Posted by killerbeez

What about the automatic starting? Can we get an option to turn that off and only start when the time/date listed is hit.

It's pretty game breaking for us currently. We have a sponsor and teams expecting the tournament to start a month from now and it started on it's own so now even reserves can't sign up.

We have the same problem on my site as well. Once tournaments are full they start, but I do know you can click add slot option on the right side of the tournament to add more teams if you would like.

p.s. I sent you an email Killerbeez

[killerbeez]

You can only have 8 teams for double elimination.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by killerbeez

What about the automatic starting? Can we get an option to turn that off and only start when the time/date listed is hit.

It's pretty game breaking for us currently. We have a sponsor and teams expecting the tournament to start a month from now and it started on it's own so now even reserves can't sign up.

Try attached files.

Edit Tournament -> Hide brackets until tournament start date/time

[champendk]

Originally Posted by bananalive

What do people want from live support?

Instead of a live support.. would a chat like this be considered down the line it would make ladders be more active, as it would ease the process of adding challenges.

mayby as a payed addon product, and i would gladly pay 50-100$ for this

[holzy40]

I was wondering if this can be changed:

When users report their score, Team A reports 2-0 and Team B reports 0-2 it just keeps waiting for the the score to get confirmed. Any way to change this by making it a disputed match, instead?

Most users on my site just keep submitting the score over and over again and don't know that they are to dispute the match.

Is their anyway that you can make it so that once both teams have reported the scores and they don't match up, that the match goes to automatic disputed match!? for example, Team A 2-0, Team B 0-2, therefore the match is disputed and not waiting for teams to confirm / submit scores.

Edit: Then once it goes to disputed it will let user know the match has been disputed etc.

[killerbeez]

Alright, those files were uploaded and seem to work (the date hasn't reached so I'm not sure if it completely works). Now the issue is that teams can not sign up as reserves.

http://www.killerbeesgaming.com/tour...t-Supremacy-#1

Shouldn't it also say, accepting players still until the check in time/date listed instead of in progress?