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 **

[bananalive]

Version History

v4.0.0: 23 March 2010
- First Beta Release

v4.0.6: 29 March 2010
- added avatars to team members
- fixed username popup suggestion boxes
- fixed order on tournament
- fixed left sidebar show/hide tournament types
- fixed tournament stats for profile/postbit
- fixed rules page excess code and made it full width
- added back link for error messages of no title and no description
- 'Edited by' on rules/ announcements now follow Usergroup Permissions -> General Permissions -> Show Edited by note
- other minor glitches and styling issues

v4.0.8: 23 April 2010
- Double Elimination Tournaments (4 or 8 players)
- Fixed pagination for ladder competitors
- Fixed error preventing LMS tournaments being Finished

v4.1.0: 03 May 2010
- Fixed error on editing tournaments when in progress/finished of 'No type'
- Fixed commenting on tournaments

v4.1.4: 14 June 2010
- Images for tournaments and ladders
- Altered layouts for tournaments and ladders
- 2 Category Levels

v4.1.7: 4 August 2010
- Moved some more text into phrases
- Added compatibility for those without the php function 'cal_days_in_month'
- Other minor fixes

v4.1.8: 11 August 2010
- Fixed avatar issue with single elimination tournaments
- Added notification for team creator when his/her team is challenge
- Other minor fixes

v4.1.9: 16 August 2010
- New layout combining ladders & tournaments within categories
- New layout for scrolling announcements at top of page
- Added option to link tournament to ladder and winner gets X points to their elo rating
- Added pm on team ladder challenge
- Added extra tab for ladders, showing which tournaments it is linked to
- New link/page showing 'All Challenges'

v4.2.0: 18 August 2010
- Fixed navbar/re-direct when 'Admin Submitting Score' via Upcoming Matches
- Ajax show more recent matches & upcoming matches
- Improved help, adding some videos where helpful
- Fixed ladder adding player error messages and allowed adding of players who had previously left the ladder

v4.2.1: 29 August 2010
- Added start/end date for ladders
- Added seasons for ladders
- Other minor changes

v4.2.2: 30 August 2010
- Round names at top of each round/column
- Admin can now add multiple players to tournaments (seperate each username by a semi colon ';'))
- Additional fields for Ladder challenges, definable by each ladder

v4.2.4: 8 October 2010
- New challenges will have date/time field, which links into timezones
- Team profile pages will have a new tab for upcoming challenges.
- A new limit on challenging same player in same ladder is being introduced. Setting controlled in admincp options.
- You can also change how ladders are ranked in admincp options.
- For tournaments losing player can now report their lose, progressing their opponent to next round. (Single elimination tournaments only)
- Other minor changes/fixes.

v4.2.7: 31 January 2011
- New top navigation
- New global match finder (look for a match across multiple ladders on one page)
- Option for rules to be displayed under new tab for both tournaments and ladders
- Match comments for Ladder Challenges, All Challenges, Reported Matches, Recent Matches, Your Challenges and Upcoming Matches

v4.2.8: 5 February 2011
- New elo rating calculation
- Fixed show more matches and more matches showing comments
- Added tournaments+ladders joined to team profile
- Added link to hide unranked players

v4.3.0: 17 February 2011
- Teams Match Finder
- Round Robin Tournament Type added - max 14 players/teams
- Other minor edits and fixes

v4.3.1: 2 March 2011
- New Front Page with 'modules'
- New Ladders List view
- Player images (a dynamic image creator - to create an image with ladder information on it (rank & xp). For example for users to put in their signature.)
- Categories counts include sub-cats
- Other minor changes

v4.3.4: 3 April 2011
- League beta

v4.3.5: 5 April 2011
- League
- Double Round Robin
- Added vBulletin Options
- New League is separate page from New Ladder
- Easier new season creation
- New vBulletin Options
- Category banners (supports bb code not html)
- My teams page
- and other minor fixes, additions

v4.3.6: 5 April 2011
- Bug fix

v4.3.7: 10 April 2011
- Improved performance of several pages
- Tournament swap slots
- Ladder Admin Delete Match
- Tournament fixed non-regulation sized single elimination and double elimination tournaments
- New 'Categories' page layout
- other minor fixes

v4.3.9: 25 April 2011
- Ladders and Leagues separated
- Swap Player(s) & Reorganise Brackets improved
- Tournaments/ Ladders button redone - prevents overlap, etc.
- Tournament Restart (allows you to add/remove players/teams, etc.)
- Page optimisation - reduces server usage

v4.4.0: 28 April 2011
- Security release
- Fixes match comment limit bug

v4.4.1: 7 May 2011
- Hooks
- Teams can leave/rejoin ladders
- Can suggest/re-arrange match date

v4.4.2: 9 May 2011
- Bug fix for category counters

v4.4.3: 16 May 2011
- Added user html option for tournaments

v4.5.0: 4 October 2011
- Bug fixes
- League & round robin to 18 players/teams
- Front Page Carousel (Rotating Banners)
- Other minor changes

v4.5.1
- Bug fixes
- Phrasing

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Screenshots

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Reserved post for additional screenshots or attachments

[ProFifaLeagues]

Looks great we used this on 3.8 and i will test this tonight too,keep up the good work thanks

[balkanboy]

waiting for demo + screenshots

[AzzidReign]

Glad you brought this to 4.0!

[smartkidbk5]

Thank you so much for bringing this to vB4.

Free for all would be a great addon for another tournament type. Also Double elimination would be great!

[Bouncer222]

demo link at least please?

[Bouncer222]

looks ok so far
http://www.brotherhoodofgamers.com/competitions.php