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[Screenshot of Single Elimination Tournament (Slightly outdated)]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

[Chris11987]

Originally Posted by djlotus

I can write it if Bananalive needs help.

I'm sure that would be much appreciated. It is by me, at least.

[BlackLava]

I still have something strange there... Got 2 screenshots now :

1) this is the normal setup I think, I can see tournaments competitor and can delete those through the small icon (only 3 players registered there => I can see them!)



2) this is the "bugged" version, when more than 10 competitors are in the list disappear and I can't remove players (they can't remove themselves neither, here I have 25 registered players so far) :



Is there a fix or is it me who's got a wrong setup somewhere?

Thanks a lot

[rob01]

one question, i keep getting this error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function cal_days_in_month() in /home/robtbs/public_html/forum/tournament.php on line 749

and someone already told me , i should install calendar-extension

but my webhosting dosnt support it...

so what else i can do? for fixing this error

[Spencey]

I'm getting this message? Any help?

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2949120 bytes) in /home/sites/site.com/public_html/forums/tournament.php(2029) : eval()'d code on line 1891

[OcR Envy]

First off, voted for MOM. I've told you before but I've been waiting years for a decent script like this.

I've reported this one before but if you turn on redirect messages in vB Options - Cookies and HTTP Header Options - Remove Redirection Message Pages - No
You get this error when submitting certain commands on tournament.php "Could not find phrase ''. redirect message"

Also noticed a few styling issues, might just be me. The edit button goes to the default image directory not the dynamic skin directory. When removing a team from a tournament it refers to them as "player" a bit confusing.

Suggestions:

1. Map & Gametype Randomizer
2. Cut off date for signups - If the max number of players/teams isn't reached by a certain date registration closes and the tournament starts on the scheduled date regardless of if enough players have joined.
3. Notifications, I would love love love too see things added to vb 3.7 notification system. Such as request for players to join your team or to approve a win/lose etc..
4. Full ability to edit tournament details. I hate clicking the + or - to change the slots, give me all the editable options on one nice and neat page. When setting the time don't make it GMT+0 make it the tournament creaters time zone.
5. Ability to close comment system on a tournament
6. Ability for teams/players to report a win or lose and have a tournament mod OR the opposing team/player confirm.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Queball_Beast

Any Idea when we`ll be able to move the Stand alone ladder tables into the Combined mod to allow use of 1 mod instead of 2? 1?

**Thanks, There is no Rush at all..Just asking**

Attached (haven't tested file as I have uninstalled ladders2008)
Any problems just post here.

Originally Posted by Chris11987

Are there any plans on creating two files, on "tournament.php" and "ladder.php" to sort of separate the directory for ladders and tournaments. Personally, I just don't really care for ladders being under a file called "tournament".

You could rename the file to something else 'competitions.php'?

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

Weird:
tree_ltr.gif
seems to be missing from the file package (wouldn't load, couldn't find it so jacked from your demo site. lol)

BUG?
Ladder combined script with tournaments is great... but since I upgraded...
creating new ladders doesn't create a new thread

The image tree_ltr.gif came with vBulletin i downloaded so it should be on your forum. atm, only tournaments create new thread.

Originally Posted by BlackLava

I still have something strange there... Got 2 screenshots now :

1) this is the normal setup I think, I can see tournaments competitor and can delete those through the small icon (only 3 players registered there => I can see them!)


2) this is the "bugged" version, when more than 10 competitors are in the list disappear and I can't remove players (they can't remove themselves neither, here I have 25 registered players so far) :


Is there a fix or is it me who's got a wrong setup somewhere?

Thanks a lot

Not sure about this, I'll have a look into it.

[Strafe]

Originally Posted by OcR Envy

3. Notifications, I would love love love too see things added to vb 3.7 notification system. Such as request for players to join your team or to approve a win/lose etc..

6. Ability for teams/players to report a win or lose and have a tournament mod OR the opposing team/player confirm.

These 2 are pretty nice suggestions indeed

[wicked80]

Originally Posted by wicked80

Guys Guys Guys,
This might be a very stupid question but unfortunately I am not a "games guru" like most of you out here...

I installed the mod but I am not sure how this thing works??? I went through all the posts but did not get much idea except that there are two modes i.e. LSM and 1v1.

My main question is, what GAME are the users competing against?? Does the user who creates the tournament, adds a mult-player game where people can compete against each other??? If this is case, where to download these multi-player games??

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks
Wicked80

Guys, atleast provide some starter links

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by wicked80

Guys Guys Guys,
This might be a very stupid question but unfortunately I am not a "games guru" like most of you out here...

I installed the mod but I am not sure how this thing works??? I went through all the posts but did not get much idea except that there are two modes i.e. LSM and 1v1.

My main question is, what GAME are the users competing against?? Does the user who creates the tournament, adds a mult-player game where people can compete against each other??? If this is case, where to download these multi-player games??

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks
Wicked80

this mod allows you to manage signups for tournaments, the games/ matches will be played elsewhere and the results put in mod.

lms: The last man standing wins the match / player with highest score
1v1: single elimination- loser of each match is out until 1 player left

[JAnders]

an option this mod desperately needs is the option to drop out of a ladder.

but so far it's an awesome mod and I'm sure it'll be Mod of the Month in the near future.