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[Screenshot of Single Elimination Tournament (Slightly outdated)]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/

[BlueNinjaGo]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Fixed in attached file

No, it's possible to change score as it nots possible to work backwards with elo ratings

Thanks, I'll upload it when I get home... And do you have any recommendation of what to do in the event of a ladder match being entered wrong? Besides telling the users to just suck it up and deal with their mistakes? (Which I pretty much already did.)

[BlueNinjaGo]

Ok, i uploaded the file you attached, and it didn't fix anything. Clicking accept challenge still doesn't do anything.

Then I noticed on all the team challenges, the "challenger" and "challenged" are always the same team name.

In the file attached, there's two screen shots (i just pasted in paint, sorry it looks so crude)... the first screen shot is team A, the second screen shot is from team B.... (I logged into each team leader's account and took screen shots, so those are first hand images)

That's it looks like.

[ZiG]

how about required gamertag entry to be able to challenge others on the ladder. many times in games users have the ability to "smurf" as other players during matches, players whos name is on the roster and they are pretending to be that person. luckily most games today have gamertags or IDS (steam, xboxlive gamertag, psn network tag, wii id, etc.)

there should be a field required in the team administration to insert each players individual gamertag for that specific ladder before team challenging is enabled.

sry if im being annoying but really enjoy this script and would like to help with whatever suggestions i can to improve its functionality.

[droid101]

As an admin, I'm trying to use the "Insert Challenge" option in a Ladder. Nothing happens after choosing the two opponents and pressing submit. What is supposed to happen?

I really need this to work to input all the past matches we've had in this ladder. From then on, everyone can just challenge each other and record the matches themselves. What's the deal?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by BlueNinjaGo

Ok, i uploaded the file you attached, and it didn't fix anything. Clicking accept challenge still doesn't do anything.

Then I noticed on all the team challenges, the "challenger" and "challenged" are always the same team name.

In the file attached, there's two screen shots (i just pasted in paint, sorry it looks so crude)... the first screen shot is team A, the second screen shot is from team B.... (I logged into each team leader's account and took screen shots, so those are first hand images)

That's it looks like.

Fixed in attached file

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by droid101

As an admin, I'm trying to use the "Insert Challenge" option in a Ladder. Nothing happens after choosing the two opponents and pressing submit. What is supposed to happen?

I really need this to work to input all the past matches we've had in this ladder. From then on, everyone can just challenge each other and record the matches themselves. What's the deal?

I've released fix for this already. Attached if you missed it.

I'll compile a release with all the fixes in it soon.

[BlueNinjaGo]

Ok, I uploaded the new file, and it still did nothing. Clicking accept or decline is doing nothing to existing challenges. I did send a new challenge and it was able to be accepted. So what do I do with the existing ones? I can't submit scores, I can't accept, or decline. And can't just ignore them because then I can't challenge that team.

Also, I tried to use the admin ability to insert a ladder challenge and I'm now getting "Error. Invalid ladder".

[gakousei]

Thx for this great mod.
I have the same problem too.
When I try to use Admin ability to arrange a challenge I have always : "Error. Invalid ladder".

Another point :
I would like to add another information in the Statistics of players in the template "tmnt_ladder_cmpt".
How can I insert a basic field from the user profile ?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by gakousei

Thx for this great mod.
I have the same problem too.
When I try to use Admin ability to arrange a challenge I have always : "Error. Invalid ladder".

Another point :
I would like to add another information in the Statistics of players in the template "tmnt_ladder_cmpt".
How can I insert a basic field from the user profile ?

fixed issue
Edit line 309 of ladders.php

$cmpts = $db->query_read("SELECT players.* players.userid AS userid, players.rank AS rank" . (!$team ? ", user.* , user.avatarrevision AS avatarrevision, avatar.avatarpath AS avatarpath, NOT ISNULL(customavatar.userid) AS hascustom, customavatar.dateline AS avatardateline, customavatar.width AS avwidth, customavatar.height AS avheight" : "") . "

[gakousei]

Could you give me an exemple with "field1" ?


After I added , user.* into the php code, what am I suppose to add into the template ?

i tried with $cmpt[field1] then with $profile[field1] etc... I don't know how to add the field into the template.

Help would be greatly appreciate.