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[Screenshot of Single Elimination Tournament (Slightly outdated)]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

[mgckim]

actually I found out that I had to enable usergroup permission.

Thanks for the help tho. looks wonderful

[john102774]

When I try to manually add users by clicking add player, I get this error -> Error: tmnt_selectuser.js not uploaded. Is there a way to bypass this error message?

[Chris11987]

You didn't load the file. I'm pretty sure that file was only in the earlier versions of the tourney mod, IIRC.

[JAnders]

Originally Posted by JAnders

I'm Running vb 3.5.8 can I install this mod on this version?

I can update to anything higher than that because my php does not meet minimim req

so I installed it and I get database error

whenever I hit the url

www.fifamexico.net/foros/tournament.php

any ideas?

any ideas on this issue?

[Chris11987]

^ The Database error you're getting is this:

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'phrasegroup_reputationlevel' in 'field list'

I'm not too sure on where to go from there, but I guess it's a start.

Also, if you guys like this mod, be sure to vote for it as "Mod of the Month" for October, here.

[KrU$ty]

im getting the following error when i try and change usergroup permissions:

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.3:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE mainusergroup SET

### UPDATE QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
`title` = 'Registered Users',
`description` = '',
`usertitle` = '<img src=\"\" />',
`opentag` = '',
`closetag` = '',
`passwordexpires` = '0',
`passwordhistory` = '0',
`ei_auto` = '0',
`ei_forumid` = '',
`forumpermissions` = '6025471',
`genericpermissions` = '1378358979',
`attachlimit` = '0',
`pmquota` = '500',
`pmpermissions` = '3',
`pmsendmax` = '5',
`calendarpermissions` = '55',
`wolpermissions` = '1',
`adminpermissions` = '0',
`genericpermissions2` = '1',
`genericoptions` = '60',
`profilepicmaxwidth` = '150',
`profilepicmaxheight` = '150',
`profilepicmaxsize` = '65535',
`avatarmaxwidth` = '80',
`avatarmaxheight` = '80',
`avatarmaxsize` = '20000',
`signaturepermissions` = '168027',
`sigpicmaxwidth` = '300',
`sigpicmaxheight` = '70',
`sigpicmaxsize` = '10000',
`sigmaxrawchars` = '1000',
`sigmaxchars` = '500',
`sigmaxlines` = '0',
`sigmaxsizebbcode` = '3',
`sigmaximages` = '1',
`albumpermissions` = '128',
`albumpicmaxwidth` = '600',
`albumpicmaxheight` = '600',
`albumpicmaxsize` = '100000',
`albummaxpics` = '100',
`albummaxsize` = '0',
`usercsspermissions` = '31',
`visitormessagepermissions` = '63',
`socialgrouppermissions` = '383',
`tournamentpermissions` = '407',
`maxteams` = '2',
`ladderpermissions` = '3',
`ugphelpcenter` = '2729',
`smspermissions` = '1'
WHERE usergroupid=2;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'tournamentpermissions' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Saturday, October 4th 2008 @ 07:29:55 PM
Error Date : Saturday, October 4th 2008 @ 07:29:56 PM
Script : http://eveprovide.com/admincp/usergroup.php?do=update
Referrer : http://eveprovide.com/admincp/usergr...&usergroupid=2
IP Address : 58.107.182.63
Username : Sylithr
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 4.1.22-standard

[Revvin]

Brilliant script! a lot of people have been waiting for something like this and I think the commercial ladder script vendors should be very worried. My only issue so far has been when clicking on a player to challenge them the player challenging gets the error message: "Please complete both the subject and message fields." the challenge is still made though but it will cause users some confusion. Sorry if this has been reported - I read the first 18 pages of this thread

My suggestions/wish list

• Players get a PM when challenged - this will stop challenges laying dormant should the ladder run for some time and players don't regulalry visit.
• Admin ability to set points scored for wins, draws and losses in a ladder
• Admin ability to restrict the number of places a challenger can challenge above him, i.e in a 20 player ladder you may want to restrict the challenges to 5 places above the challenger
• Rules page - yes I know its coming but I thought I'd just add my 2 cents

[Chris11987]

Admin ability to set points scored for wins, draws and losses in a ladder

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the ELO Rating System to be added. It's what all the big boys use. It has a formula that determines points gained/losses based on how much higher/lower the other person was to you. As much as I would love ladders, they're not very usable without ELO.

[Toupsx]

Few Suggestions:
- Auto-create ladder challenge thread
- Postbit mini stats for ladder (rank & name of ladder)
- A way to administrate the ladder..? Edit players & scores, remove, add, etc.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by JAnders

I'm Running vb 3.5.8 can I install this mod on this version?

I can update to anything higher than that because my php does not meet minimim req

so I installed it and I get database error

whenever I hit the url

www.fifamexico.net/foros/tournament.php

any ideas?

I've got no experience with vB 3.5.x but obviously some additions were made in vB 3.6.x, which means it isn't backwards compatible. Sorry.

Originally Posted by Chris11987

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the ELO Rating System to be added. It's what all the big boys use. It has a formula that determines points gained/losses based on how much higher/lower the other person was to you. As much as I would love ladders, they're not very usable without ELO.

With the ELO rating system if both players have the same rank, how do the ranks change?

Originally Posted by KrU$ty

im getting the following error when i try and change usergroup permissions:

Upgrade to latest version of Forum Tournaments & Ladders. I added code in v2.4.6 which checks that the appropriate columns have been added.

Originally Posted by john102774

When I try to manually add users by clicking add player, I get this error -> Error: tmnt_selectuser.js not uploaded. Is there a way to bypass this error message?

Revert template tmnt_newplayer and upgrade to latest version of modification which does not require the file.