Major Additions - Tournaments, Ladders & Leagues Manager v4.x

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Modification Description

This modification allows you to manage tournaments and ladders on your forum. It provides interactibility both for forum members and forum admin.

Tournament Types:

• Single Elimination Tournaments
• Last Man Standing Tournaments
• Double Elimination Tournaments
• Round Robin Tournaments also called all-play-all tournament
• Double Round Robin

Ladder Description:

Users or teams can 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:

• General Features
  • All pages are XHTML valid
• 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
  • 3 Tournament Modes: Last Man Standing, Single Elimination, Double Elimination and Round Robin
  • 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
  • Require check-in before tournaments
  • 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
  • Search Free Agents for new team members
• 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
  • Match Finder
• 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/ leagues
  • Category displays in navbar when viewing ladder/ tournament/ league

Installation:

1. Follow instructions included in .zip
2. Click Install

Premium Features:

• Pay to play/ credits system
  • Opportunity to earn money for your forum
  • Uses PayPal for payments
• Support Tickets
• Leagues into Knockout Stage
• Live Match Finder

Suggestions:

1. Please post any suggestions/ comments about this modification and I will try and implement them

** Don't forgot to click Mark as Installed **

[champendk]

when we run a league into knockout there is no swap players function in the knockout( in case of an error) and players cant submit scores.

When you change the group names in the settings it dosnt reflect through the system. So when i look at my matches it shows group no 1, 2 and 3 instead of the new names i have chosen. And the first match it shows is round 3 and the second is round 2, wouldn't it be better to show the matches in order? or am i missing the logic?

Submit score still dosn't work for double elim

[KGodel]

My users are getting a DB error when attempting to PM all members of a ladder. Is this a permissions thing?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by betts02

On your site how do i get the latest version as in the download section it shows as version 5.x.x but the latest version is 6.0.4 ?

Cheers

Click v5.x.x to do download latest version 6.0.4

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by KGodel

My users are getting a DB error when attempting to PM all members of a ladder. Is this a permissions thing?

fixed in v6.0.2+

[betts02]

How do we use this Race Format you have set up ?

I have started a test event with 4 players but what now ?

With this being set to 4 players it should be set to 4 races and each race each player should be able to submit where they finished

There should also be an option to set specific days for each race to be played

If possible it should allow the standings to show how many kills, deaths and difference for say games like COD,etc

Any info of the above or how to use this feature ?

many hanks

[Bluefin221]

Originally Posted by Bluefin221

When into knockout stages after using groups, we still have the problem that its random, instead of winner of group 1 versus runner up of group 4 for example, the draw needs to be split and winner v runner up, or we need to be able to manually add who plays who when it goes from groups to knockouts.

Also for teams entering tournaments they cannot enter a result, when we have so many teams or players it is much easier if teams and players could enter the results then have it approved by a member of staff to make things function much faster.

The first part of this is pretty important, when running a group into knockout stages it does not reward the winner of a group just randomly throws two group winners together, is there any chance this could be fixed somehow to allow it to be manually kinda like we can move folk around groups before it starts, we can move the teams around in the knockout stage before it starts.

[hoangserip]

Which Tournament Types like UEFA Champion League???

My school have a Tournament, but I couldn't create because of my bad English!! (VietNamese )

Please help me! Thanks a lot ^^!

[champendk]

Use league as grouplay and then playoff, i think that is what you are looking for :-)

[hoangserip]

Originally Posted by champendk

Use league as grouplay and then playoff, i think that is what you are looking for :-)

There are 5 tournament types, which tournament type i should choose? Please help me. Thank you ^^!

[hoangserip]

Can you add more option for Number of Players/ Teams when creating a new tournament? (or let us fill in that option)

I have a tounament, but numbers of teams in my tournament is not available (5 teams)
And i want to create a Round Robin Tournament, but the tournament make me have to add 8 team enough to start the tournament, but i have only 5 teams >"<

Please help me!