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[Screenshot of Single Elimination Tournament (Slightly outdated)]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

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Covert-OPs_

Just curious if you have given any thought to these features?

I've been working on the bugs and optimising the code rather than doing new features. I do plan on adding more Challenge Details in the future but I'm not sure when atm.

[edytwinky]

Another vote for Double Elimination. That would be awesome!

[Queball_Beast]

Thank you Banana, it worked like a charm.

Happy New Year everyone

Originally Posted by bananalive

Your missing the tournamentpermissions column, import attached product file and that should fix it.

[bahisyeri]

Everything is good even with 3.8.0 RC2 but when i want to use MySQLi getting blank screens on submitting scores i fixed them by myself with adding simple fetch_array's but i think you need to work on it too and please response for my ideas on thread :P

[AzzidReign]

Originally Posted by AzzidReign

I get this error when I go to update:
Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in [path]/admincp/plugin.php(1986) : eval()'d code on line 9

This error was fixed when I updated.

THANKS

[gorentals]

I have the same issue and I'm at 2.7.4. But it works when add the sidebar links. When I just have the Top Links bar enabled and click on the teams field there is no link to create team even if I have permissions. Is there an easy fix?

Thanks

Originally Posted by yathyo

I'm testing the script, it looks great! But I got a problem. "Create Team" link does no appears

EDITED: Also Create new annoucement is not visible.

I have all permissions ON

Several bug detected, ie links pointing base forum not "competitions.php"

EDITED AGAIN : bananalive got a PM

Thanks in advance

[Jaxel]

So I finally got around to re-installing this mod... but I got a question...

1 - since we cant do double-elim and it will be some time before we can... is there a chance we could do 64 player single-elim tournaments? 32 players just isn't enough for a meaningful single-elim tournament in my community. 128 players would be even better.

2 - does this system have any method of score reporting for single elim tournaments? It would be so much easier to manage if players could submit their scores; and when both players confirm the scores, then it should advance the bracket automatically.

3 - the cancel button doesnt work in the edit tournament page.

4 - is there any way to DELETE tournaments?

5 - there are a series of formatting errors, which I have explained in the included attachments...

[Jaxel]

Also... the year dates on tournament creation are screwy... its 2009 now.

Can we also get it so that the tournament creation page defaults to 32 players, and single elimination, and 2009?

[brucegs]

Originally Posted by 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

I am getting this exact error as well, and unfortunately I also cannot get the calandar extension installed on my server. Is there anything else I can do to try and fix this problem?

[Jaxel]

New issue... which I think is a MAJOR issue...

The script creates a new thread on the creation of a new tournament... but the thread message itself provides no link to the actual tournament itself so that people can register! Big oversight.