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]

Originally Posted by EBZ2010

I have mentioned this a few pages back but the downloads on premium do not reflect the latest 5.2.2 which shows on Facebook. Can this get updated so I can upgrade please!!

Uploaded, check back now

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by sutto

Hi Banana,

As a generic user I'm struggling to find where teams can challenge other teams in the ladder system. From all I can see, only Competition Mod can 'insert ladder challenges".

Help please (also, please review post above)

Click on their name, then challenge team

[bananalive]

New Ladder/League Design Preview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVVz5...ature=youtu.be

[aemjay]

some questions.

first i must say, that system is awesome! but i have some questions where you may can help:

1. is there any chance to do a seeding for players befor the Tournament starts?

2. in a tournament, where can the players add the results?

3. is there a way, to give not only the first 3 places some points? so maybe the first 8? or should i do that manually?

thnx for your answers.

[Bluefin221]

In the League into knockout stages format teams are not separated properly, you can have all the winners playing each other and all the runners up playing each other, or indeed you can have the winners playing the runners up from there group, is there a possible way for us to manually enter teams into knockout stages so we could have winners of groups against runners up for example?

[EBZ2010]

Like 5.2.7 but it does not open like your video does. When I click on a name it just loads a new page with the new look. I have to use browser back button to get back to rankings. Wish it would be like the video and have a pop-up window with the new feature.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by EBZ2010

Like 5.2.7 but it does not open like your video does. When I click on a name it just loads a new page with the new look. I have to use browser back button to get back to rankings. Wish it would be like the video and have a pop-up window with the new feature.

What browser are you using?

Have you cleared your browser cache so the updated javascript file is loaded?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by aemjay

some questions.

first i must say, that system is awesome! but i have some questions where you may can help:

1. is there any chance to do a seeding for players befor the Tournament starts?

2. in a tournament, where can the players add the results?

3. is there a way, to give not only the first 3 places some points? so maybe the first 8? or should i do that manually?


thnx for your answers.

There's no seeding, players are added randomly to tournament. You can rearrange once the tournament starts, if you wish.

For results, tournament moderators/creator can progress players. Or if you have the premium version, the players can click 'Submit Result'.

[champendk]

it would be nice with auto seeding tho :-)

[EBZ2010]

Originally Posted by bananalive

What browser are you using?

Have you cleared your browser cache so the updated javascript file is loaded?

FireFox, and IE. Perhaps you may have forgot to include an updated script. In both browsers with Cache, Cookies, and everything else refreshed there is no pop-up screen when clicking on a ladder participants name. It just loads in a same window and I have to use browser back buttons to get to rankings. It does not work on wife's laptop, daughters laptop or computer, son's laptop or ps3, my computer or ps3, or anything else I have.