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[Screenshot of Single Elimination Tournament (Slightly outdated)]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

[Redzzand]

after upgrade, i cannot see my ladder. says no permissions error, but when i checked the usergroup, i have the correct permissions set.

help!

[Covert-OPs_]

Originally Posted by bananalive

It's on my list of things to do. But I'm very busy atm, which gives me less time to code.

Understood, as a result would you say that the features more than likely will not be added by the end of this month? I appreciate everything you've done and all your hard work so I'm not trying to be a jerk. We're just trying to start a tournament in the next two weeks so I want to know if to wait for the update or if I should go ahead and use something else in the meantime.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Covert-OPs_

Understood, as a result would you say that the features more than likely will not be added by the end of this month? I appreciate everything you've done and all your hard work so I'm not trying to be a jerk. We're just trying to start a tournament in the next two weeks so I want to know if to wait for the update or if I should go ahead and use something else in the meantime.

Nope, I'd start the tournament

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Redzzand

after upgrade, i cannot see my ladder. says no permissions error, but when i checked the usergroup, i have the correct permissions set.

help!

Do you mean you cannot access 'viewladder'

Do your usergroup options for Tournaments and Ladders look like this?

Tournament and Ladder Permissions

• Can View Tournaments Yes No
• Can Join Tournaments Yes No
• Can Create Tournaments Yes No
• Tournament Moderator Users with this option selected have full control over all tournaments. Yes No
• Can Comment on Tournaments Yes No
• Can Delete All Comments on Tournaments Yes No
• Can Delete their own Comments on Tournaments Yes No
• Can Create New Team Yes No
• Can Request to Join Team Yes No
• Can Edit and Delete All Teams Team leaders can edit and delete their own teams Yes No
• Maximum teams a user can create Based on number teams the user has created.

More Tournament and Ladder Permissions

• Can View Ladders Yes No
• Can Join Ladders Yes No
• Can Create Ladders Yes No
• Can Edit Ladders Yes No
• Can add a user to a team No conformation is needed by the user or the team leader(s). Yes No

[realmr]

actually how and why are the tournaments conducted ?
can u give an example of how a tournament is conducted ? i.e the purpose of tournament, is it quiz or somthing like that...

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by realmr

actually how and why are the tournaments conducted ?
can u give an example of how a tournament is conducted ? i.e the purpose of tournament, is it quiz or somthing like that...

For Gaming Tournament?

You start tournament, members join, tournament starts, tournament happens, tournament results displayed.

You could use it for a quiz, using the LMS tournament type.

[corazorback]

You should put an option to where you can switch between different skins/layouts in the AdminCP. Say you are running Skin 1 on your forum and you want to use Skin 2 for the Ladders & Tournaments mod....

Anyway of doing this?

[Redzzand]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Do you mean you cannot access 'viewladder'

Do your usergroup options for Tournaments and Ladders look like this?

Tournament and Ladder Permissions

• Can View Tournaments Yes No
• Can Join Tournaments Yes No
• Can Create Tournaments Yes No
• Tournament Moderator Users with this option selected have full control over all tournaments. Yes No
• Can Comment on Tournaments Yes No
• Can Delete All Comments on Tournaments Yes No
• Can Delete their own Comments on Tournaments Yes No
• Can Create New Team Yes No
• Can Request to Join Team Yes No
• Can Edit and Delete All Teams Team leaders can edit and delete their own teams Yes No
• Maximum teams a user can create Based on number teams the user has created.

More Tournament and Ladder Permissions

• Can View Ladders Yes No
• Can Join Ladders Yes No
• Can Create Ladders Yes No
• Can Edit Ladders Yes No
• Can add a user to a team No conformation is needed by the user or the team leader(s). Yes No

It looks just like that... I have all options set to Yes for Administrator group. But cannot access.

All the other usergroups have the correct access according to their usergroup rights.

[ZiG]

I have some suggestions, I haven't used this yet because my website isn't so popular but I play on gamebattles, and I this script has the potential to be as good of a script as the one running there...

-add the ability for single players (free agents) to sign up for ladders and be recruited by teams needing players
-maybe social group integration for teams that sign up
-more team information on team page

• team avatars/logos
• team website
• list of tournament/ladders joined
• overall team statistics based on ladders/tournaments won/lost
• upcoming matches / challenges
• match history
• tournament history

-ladder avatars/logos
-tournament avatars/logos
-addition of league play format in ladder options (seasonal league type competition, instead of ladder challenges)
-ability to link specific forum IDs to ladders/tournament which then pull recent threads from that forum onto the ladder/tournament page

I apologize if any of these features are already implemented and i just don't see them because i haven't held or done any tournaments/ladders with the script yet. my forums aren't very populated at all, and i'm just suggesting things that i see as missing. overall the script is wonderful and i'd even pay money to see these improvements/suggestions made. thanks so much for all the hard work on this!
-timezone implementation (to know which timezones teams are coming from)

[Gamelobby]

Most of those are already in, but League play, & Social Group integration would be great additions.!!