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[Screenshot of Single Elimination Tournament (Slightly outdated)]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

[masterwebguy]

How can I update my current version? Will it erase a tournament I currently have?

http://gamebend.com/forums/competiti...p?do=view&id=2

[Revvin]

Would it be possible for the system to send the challenging player a PM once the challenged player has accepted the challenge.

Also would it be a benefit to add the option to forfeit a match when challenged as wellas the accept and reject options. A player choosing to forfeit a match would result in the system automatically registering a loss to the forfeting player without the need for the challenging player to confirm the result.

At present there doesnot seem to be much of a penalty if a player decides once he's won a few matches and gained a good enough record he can sit at the top rejecting challenge after challenge?

Can we have an option for the admin to enter or confirm scores should a player be challenged and then either refuse to confirm the loss despite evidence to proove the loss or they just go AWOL for some reason.

Is it possible in vBulletin to have mods like this to use a separate theme?

[MarceloS]

Two tournaments completed (last man standing), and I still don't know how to give points to the players and how to classify them.

Can anyone help?

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by mozik

Are you going to make it so we can edit our rosters and team leaders and can edit them. Like remove and invite people by username?

Maybe a button to get to your team.

And for challenges maybe have them so for each ladder they are separate, not just one list.

That would be cool.

or so that a social group can enter a tournament..!!?? (as a team)

[Stifmeister2]

Bananalive, this is a request many of our members would love:

The ability to assign certain members to moderate certain tournaments.

Currently I have only admins & super mods who can moderate tourneys... But some clan are organizing private tourneys and they'd like to moderate their own tourney. Ogf course I could make some secondary usergroup with the permissions (that would probably work?), and put one of the members in it. But I don't want that person to be able to moderate other tourneys!

That's why it would be a welcome additon to assign certain user(s) to moderate certain tourney(s).

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by Stifmeister2

Bananalive, this is a request many of our members would love:


The ability to assign certain members to moderate certain tournaments.

Currently I have only admins & super mods who can moderate tourneys... But some clan are organizing private tourneys and they'd like to moderate their own tourney. Ogf course I could make some secondary usergroup with the permissions (that would probably work?), and put one of the members in it. But I don't want that person to be able to moderate other tourneys!


That's why it would be a welcome additon to assign certain user(s) to moderate certain tourney(s).

good idea

[OcR Envy]

After starting our first tournament I have another suggestion.

Link tournament discussion with forum threads.

Farcaster has done this with his Event Forums mod. The tournament discussion is essentially a thread, why not link it to a specific forum so it will auto create a discussion thread when the tournament is created. My members are finding it difficult to remember to check the tournament discussions. If a thread showed up on a new post search I think we'd have far more activity in the tournament.

[jlew24asu]

sigh. I had this same problem a while back and thought I would try again with the latest version.

still no luck.


a blank page loads when I try to create a new tournament. I know others had this problem. is there a fix?

[P@trick]

Hi I've got the same error like 2 other gus in this thread and there was no help till yet. so lets have a third try:

When I want to import the product I got:

Importing Product, Please Wait...

[:]

I also tied to disable the plugin system, import and then activate, but nothing happens. So whats the Problem, maybe my SQL version (4.0.27) is to old?

[King Fly]

everything is working smooth for me now...have a last man standing, single elimination and ladder rankings all going on right now...my one suggestion would be what was already suggested ....the admins have the ablility to submit scores..i have some slackers on my ladder that arent entering their scores so it not rolling along as smoothly as i hoped