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[Screenshot of Single Elimination Tournament (Slightly outdated)]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

[tjhanes]

I run a golfing ladder, so the highest score doesnt win...the lowest does. Can someone give me some direction as how to change that functionality? is it possible?

Also want to repeat a previous question. Is there any way to manually add players to a ladder as an admin? and secondly a way to reorder/rerank players as the admin?

Thanx.
Tj.

[BlueNinjaGo]

Anyone having any postbit issues?

I enabled (in Options) for the info to appear in both profile and postbit. It appears in profile but no luck with the postbit.

[vash911]

Is there an error with the Elo Calculator?

I have a guy who is 3-0 he didn't get to #1.

He fought someone who is 2-0 and is now 3-1 and he has dropped down to 25 he is actually now behind someone who is 0-3. In addition it says his longest winning streak is 4, when in reality its 3 since he is 3-1.

That seems off.

[biglamb]

I have a few suggestions, I love this mod and I see great potential with it.

The admin should be allowed to decide what score each player on a specific ladder starts with. In other words instead of starting with 1000 points maybe I want them to start with a big goose egg.

I also like the idea posted earlier about a manual ranking style or a possible vote ranking style maybe based off ip address or user or something of that nature. Anyway, keep up the good work.

[Stifmeister2]

Originally Posted by tjhanes

I run a golfing ladder, so the highest score doesnt win...the lowest does. Can someone give me some direction as how to change that functionality? is it possible?

Also want to repeat a previous question. Is there any way to manually add players to a ladder as an admin? and secondly a way to reorder/rerank players as the admin?

Thanx.
Tj.

You (the admin) will advance players to next round, hence you have the power... And there are no "scores" in this mod.

[tjhanes]

Originally Posted by Stifmeister2

You (the admin) will advance players to next round, hence you have the power... And there are no "scores" in this mod.

Yes, see that applying to a tournament. But what about a ladder....being able to manually place people on a ladder/adjust their rank?

Also, the mod does request a score when you report a match. It asks for the winning/losing score. And thats how it determines who the winner is of that match.

[OttawaGolf]

Something doesn't seem right with the ELO calculator:
http://forum.ottawagolf.com/ladders.php?do=elorating

No matter what the score is, the resulting ratings are always the same if the beginning ratings are the same and the winner of the match is the same.

Also, the larger the margin of difference is between opponents is the less gain a winning underdog gets. Example:
If a 1000 beats a 1001 the resulting ratings are 1024.92(winner) and 988.46(loser)
If a 1000 beats a 1030 the resulting ratings are 1022.84(winner) and 1016.42(loser)
and so on up to 1000 beating 2000 resulting in ratings of 1000.15 (winner) and 1975.07(loser)
Shouldn't beating a better opponent result in a higher rating than beating a lesser opponent?
Something just seems wrong with this calculator to me.

[Stifmeister2]

Originally Posted by tjhanes

Yes, see that applying to a tournament. But what about a ladder....being able to manually place people on a ladder/adjust their rank?

Also, the mod does request a score when you report a match. It asks for the winning/losing score. And thats how it determines who the winner is of that match.

Ohh sorry I misread it.


Anyway sorry can't help you with that, we only run tournaments on our site..

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by tjhanes

I run a golfing ladder, so the highest score doesnt win...the lowest does. Can someone give me some direction as how to change that functionality? is it possible?

Also want to repeat a previous question. Is there any way to manually add players to a ladder as an admin? and secondly a way to reorder/rerank players as the admin?

Thanx.
Tj.

There are so many places where is it configured it would be very difficult to change it to lowest score wins.

And no. If i get a chance I'll add it.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by BlueNinjaGo

Anyone having any postbit issues?

I enabled (in Options) for the info to appear in both profile and postbit. It appears in profile but no luck with the postbit.

I've just checked and it works fine on my forum.