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[Screenshot of Single Elimination Tournament (Slightly outdated)]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

[ArnyVee]

I was thinking of using this mod for 'voting' on your favorite photo or something.

So, I wanted to place 16 "links" to pictures (maybe to the posts where member has uploaded pic?) and have the members vote on them. The winners would then move on in the single elimination tourney.

Is this possible and has anyone done it successfully?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Gn_Snake

Hi bananalive
You have a solution for me??

thanx

Your missing column in table HG_tmnt_ladder_players

If you have access to phpmyadmin, add it manually as varchar(10)

[Freakboy380]

Bananalive, now my turn? Do you have a solution for me?

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by ArnyVee

I was thinking of using this mod for 'voting' on your favorite photo or something.

So, I wanted to place 16 "links" to pictures (maybe to the posts where member has uploaded pic?) and have the members vote on them. The winners would then move on in the single elimination tourney.

Is this possible and has anyone done it successfully?

Sounds like a Sig of the week type of thing would work, but i think you could use the tournament system too.!
Each round you could just put up a poll/thread, for a week or however long, then at the end, then give each person a score (in the tournament) equal to the amount of votes (from the poll), the winner in the poll gets the highest points, then move on to next round.
Repeat for as many rounds as you like, until their is a clear winner with the most points.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Freakboy380

Hmmmm was working fine until I installed some new mods, now it just shows up blank when i go to /competition.php (i renamed it because of another mod, it worked fine, just after the new mods the problem began). Here is the list of mods installed please tell me if anyone knows if one or more are incompatible.
Running 3.8.1

AME - The Automatic Media Embeder 2.5.4
Community News Letter Light 1.0.0 1.0.0
Competitions 1.0.3
Cyb - Advanced 'New Posts' 2.4
Cyb - Advanced Forum Statistics 6.5
Cyb - Last Post Info Enhancements 1.2
Cyb - Login To User Account 2.2
Cyb - PM System Enhancements 1.5
Hide Closed Forum Threadlist 1.0.1
Inferno External 1.0
Invitation System 2.0.3
Live Topic 1.05b
Quick Editor Improver 3.0
Separate Sticky and Normal Threads 2.0.0
Similar thread check v2 2.0
Tag Cloud - Forum Home 2.0.0
vB Tournaments and Ladders 2.7.5
vBjirc 1.0.0

Try disabling them one by one and test Forum Tournaments & Ladders. Once you find which one is conflicting post it here and I might be able to fix what the issue is.

[Gn_Snake]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Your missing column in table HG_tmnt_ladder_players

If you have access to phpmyadmin, add it manually as varchar(10)

The table is existing

Any idea???

[ArnyVee]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Sounds like a Sig of the week type of thing would work, but i think you could use the tournament system too.!
Each round you could just put up a poll/thread, for a week or however long, then at the end, then give each person a score (in the tournament) equal to the amount of votes (from the poll), the winner in the poll gets the highest points, then move on to next round.
Repeat for as many rounds as you like, until their is a clear winner with the most points.

Thanks Gamelobby.

So, I would have to manually add the links to the threads with the pictures (is that easy?) for the bracket field, right?

Also, do we move or forward the "players" (in my case the competing 'picture' threads) manually ..... how does that work?

[Freakboy380]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Try disabling them one by one and test Forum Tournaments & Ladders. Once you find which one is conflicting post it here and I might be able to fix what the issue is.

K thanks man.

Update:

The mod is "Cyb - Advanced 'New Posts'"

[gamerscms]

Looking for the updates? what has changed?

cheers.

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by ArnyVee

Thanks Gamelobby.

So, I would have to manually add the links to the threads with the pictures (is that easy?) for the bracket field, right?

Also, do we move or forward the "players" (in my case the competing 'picture' threads) manually ..... how does that work?

Yes & no..
Yes you will need to manually create the thread, & add the links to the images or URL's so the picture shows up (if you want them to)
I guess it depends on the size of the images, & is it a contest for one image per person or gallery vs gallery, etc..

Just create a new thread & post the images or url in that thread with a poll for people to vote on. then once the poll is closed or contest is done for that week or whatever (however long)
Then on the Ladder/tournament mod you would give the points to each person. (points = votes in the poll)
That is how i would do it for a images contest, but if you are doing something other than images it cant work that way.


If you have more details, you can send me a PM and maybe i can help more.