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[Screenshot of Single Elimination Tournament (Slightly outdated)]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

[djlotus]

I have read every post in this thread and still can not find the answer too:

Why are PM's not being sent during the challenge process?

Any ideas/fixes?

Also, I am curious if there is a way to separate "Categories" by a new variable called "Consoles"?
Basically adding a new sort value to the listing of Categories. As of now, the heirarchy is as follows:

Categories
|
Game1 Game 2
/| |\
Ladder1 Ladder2 Ladder1 Ladder2

I would like to be able to add a value above "Categories" so it would sort as follows:

Console
/ \

Categories Categories
| |
Game1 Game 2 Game 1 Game2
/| |\ /| |\
Ladder1 Ladder2 Ladder1 Ladder2 Ladder1 Ladder2 Ladder1 Ladder2

Any ideas?

[MrHyde]

Hi all,

we have found a strange problem, when a ladder list has more than one page. For example we had "25" as people per side for the ladders and what happens now:

• People on positions 1-25 can only challenge people from 1-25
• People from 26 on side 2 can only challenge people on side 2

When you go to another page than you are listed on, it will also give you the option to "join the ladder" again.

What it did now was changing the 25 in the settings to 200, so I don't have the problem... but it would be nice, to have the possibilty to show the ladder rankings on more than one page.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[mikeinjersey]

hello, can someone tell me how I can edit the number of players allowed in a tournament ? The drop-down thingee that only allows , 4 , 8 , 16, etc to be selected. I need to input a 12 there so I can add COD4 to the list.

also, i'd like to change 'single elimination' name to 'team deathmatch'.

any help is much appreciated.

[mikeinjersey]

anybody ? I'd really like to know how to adjust this.

[MrHyde]

Originally Posted by mikeinjersey

anybody ? I'd really like to know how to adjust this.

You should be able to adjust this afterwards. Start with 16 and after the creation you can klick on the minus or plus next to the number of players to go down to 12.

For the names I don't know but you shouldn't care and just name it in the title and put it in the details of the description. That would be a workaround, I guess

[Mike21]

I get this everytime i post in the description:

<input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden">

[Neomega]

There's a plus and minus icon to the right on the tournament/ladder details page where you can finetune the number of players allowed.

I'll be trying to use this system to start a modern warfare 2 competition league November 10th when the game launches, I guess I'll find out how well it works for a large number of teams haha. One thing I would like is to know how to change some of the terms, like change 'players' to 'teams', etc.

[Nephalim]

ive had a few problems too. cant report matches. Ive just read thru all 130+ pages here. seems like around page 113-115 people were talking about this too before the last update.but we cant even see the red button.help please

[epp_forum]

I have a very basic question, the product adds a button to the navbar but there is not code in the navbar template! When I check the source code of the rendered site I can find this:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="http://www.easyplayforum.com/competitions.php">Competitions</a></td>

Unfortunately the vbmenu_control should be "navigation" but I cant find it anywhere. Any one shed some light on this please?

[Jimbolosey]

Ya, I'm having troubles as well. It seems like there is very little support for mods that are already out . I just installed this and I have seen that the mod doesn't even create a link in the navbar, it will not show the brackets, can't report tournaments, the pm details was messed up (a member here gave a fix for it...would'a thought the creator could do something), and a few things here and there that I can live with.

overall, I'm really not that satisfied with it...purely because of there are 133 pages as of now and most problems aren't fixed in the Download...