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[Screenshot of Single Elimination Tournament (Slightly outdated)]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

[Reinhart]

YES! Remove player was added!
Going live soon!

Just so everyone knows..
On 3.6 banana uses div variables for the comments that are only defined by 3.7.. so you'll have some template work ahead of you if you want to get this thing to work properly ..
But otherwise its running fine!

[valendono]

about the phrase after submit comment.. sumtin like cannot find phrase.. only me or still on dev about that phrase ?

[mlthmp]

Think there may be anyway to add "Scores" for 1<vs>1 matches?

Like I said before, all my suggestions / ideas are minor ones, I plan on using this anyway this script is exactly what I've been looking for! I really like it.

[stickskills]

I see pagination for comments! Looks like it isn't too far from me downloading, unless there's major progress on the ladder mod :P.

Honestly, I'd like to see the ladder & tournament mods released as a package.

[Reinhart]

Get a DB error when trying to add player:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS countrows FROM user WHERE userid=Luke;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'Luke' in 'where clause'

Luke was the member i was trying to add

[schlottkej]

A couple thoughts that I have not seen mentioned yet:

Allow admin to create tournament categories to organize them in.
Allow 1v1 scoring and ability to add types of scores
Ability to add guest users

[Jaxel]

Okay, I have an additional change to the ranking system... Remember, in double elimination tournaments, there is no 4th place, instead there are two 5th placed players. Everything in parenthesis should be admin definable; even the min and max of the ranking allocations.

Tournament Categories (point values definable)
- Local Tournaments (100 points)
- Regional Tournaments (500 points)
- National Tournaments (2000 points)

Ranking Allocations (percentages definable)
- 1st Place (50% points)
- 2nd Place (20% points)
- 3rd Place (10% points)
- 5th Place (5% points each to both players)
- The remaining 10% gets split up evenly between all other players (1 point min - 1% max)

Players shouldn't be ranked by their total number of points. Instead, they should be ranked by the top 10 scores (admin definable number) during the course of the past year. This way it doesn't require a person to attend every tournament, and ranks them simply by their best 10 performances in the past year. It would also automatically prune out retired players who don't attend events anymore; and give preference to regional and national tournaments since they are worth more points. Maybe setup a cronjob once a week to recalculate rankings?

Also, let me reiterate, that I need the ability to make it so tournaments have a MINIMUM of 16 players, and maximum of 128... with double elimination.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Reinhart

Get a DB error when trying to add player:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS countrows FROM user WHERE userid=Luke;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'Luke' in 'where clause'

Luke was the member i was trying to add

I've fixed this 'error' in v1.8
Userid is meant to be number, for example, my userid on (this forum) is 223075 and my username is bananalive

You can find a user's userid by putting your mouse over their name and you will see link in status bar to their profile. The number after member.php?u= is their unique userid, this is the number you want to use if asked for userid

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by stickskills

I see pagination for comments! Looks like it isn't too far from me downloading, unless there's major progress on the ladder mod :P.

Honestly, I'd like to see the ladder & tournament mods released as a package.

I still haven't decided whether to incorporate ladder modification into this tournament hack but i most likely will release ladder modification as separate modification.

[Reinhart]

Originally Posted by bananalive

I've fixed this 'error' in v1.8
Userid is meant to be number, for example, my userid on (this forum) is 223075 and my username is bananalive

You can find a user's userid by putting your mouse over their name and you will see link in status bar to their profile. The number after member.php?u= is their unique userid, this is the number you want to use if asked for userid

Nice!
Well im not getting the db error anymore.. It just says "Invalid Username" or Invalid UserID" no matter what I put in there

NICE ICONS BTW!
Gotta add that to the changelog!
The ajax add slots is really impressive.
Great work.

Edit: OOOOHH.. I have to enter BOTH User ID and Username..
Seems a little much but i guess im cool now!