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[Screenshot of Single Elimination Tournament (Slightly outdated)]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

[KHALIK]

Once a event goes active, with 1v1 etc..

It there a system in place to replace a userid/user if they drop out with another player (replacement) aka reserve.

Can this be introduced, as it will allow admins to add players to replace exiting players who are unable to play.

[SnapOff Racing]

Originally Posted by KHALIK

Once a event goes active, with 1v1 etc..

It there a system in place to replace a userid/user if they drop out with another player (replacement) aka reserve.

Can this be introduced, as it will allow admins to add players to replace exiting players who are unable to play.

+111111111111111

Also, where do you change from "lms" mode to 1v1, etc?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by SnapOff Racing

where do you change from "lms" mode to 1v1, etc?

upon tournament creation and also editing tournament (link at bottom right) when it hasnt started.

[mlthmp]

My biggest suggestion at this point.. is to keep this simple. OR, if you do decide to add the above suggestions, consider including a way to disable them.

Im sure there are board where such would be overkill or unused features. The bracket system alone makes this a killer modification.

My final suggestions at the moment,

Give the system its own AdminCP menu, where you don't alway shave to go through VB Options.

Consider adding the ability for an administrator to create events from the Admin CP.

May it be possible in the future, to make some events "Invite Only" ? So only the people you want to join can do so (without having to add them yourself) OR just a way to disable joining for some events?

[x YNWA x]

fantastic hack, absolutely what i needed for my gaming forum, and i hope u release the league one to. I have a few idea for future releases:

• Being able to name players like by there gamertag/username instead of players 1,2,3,4,5,6
  
• more statistics in profile/postbit i use it for pro evolution soccer so i would like to see, goals scored, goals conceeded wins, losses etc etc..... (maybe more suitable for a league structure than tournament but u get the idea)
  
• more categories but u alread said ur doing this

al try think of some more

[Chris11987]

For the ladders, I STRONGLY urge you to use the ELO Rating System. It's the best way to calculate points IMO, and it used by all the big ladder and tournament sites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system

[SnapOff Racing]

yes, the user ID along with username needs to go away. it takes twice the time to create a tournament. besides...users are too incompetent to know what their id is, and how to find it.

[Queball_Beast]

I agree with "snapoff " it should be either username or user ID either one entered should be sufficient.

Originally Posted by SnapOff Racing

yes, the user ID along with username needs to go away. it takes twice the time to create a tournament. besides...users are too incompetent to know what their id is, and how to find it.

[Reinhart]

Not to sound ungrateful or greedy...
But is there an update coming with any of these suggestions implimented?

[mlthmp]

I'd be patient. There have already been TONS of updates since the original version came out. While im no coder, im sure it takes quite a bit of time to implement even smaller changes / updates.. much less such large ones.

Give him some time.. he has already issued more updates, in far less time than most modifications ever get =)