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
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:
Follow instructions included in .zip
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)
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'
My biggest suggestion at this point.. is to keep this simple. OR, if you do decide to add the above suggestions, consider including a way to disable them.
Im sure there are board where such would be overkill or unused features. The bracket system alone makes this a killer modification.
My final suggestions at the moment,
Give the system its own AdminCP menu, where you don't alway shave to go through VB Options.
Consider adding the ability for an administrator to create events from the Admin CP.
May it be possible in the future, to make some events "Invite Only" ? So only the people you want to join can do so (without having to add them yourself) OR just a way to disable joining for some events?
fantastic hack, absolutely what i needed for my gaming forum, and i hope u release the league one to. I have a few idea for future releases:
Being able to name players like by there gamertag/username instead of players 1,2,3,4,5,6
more statistics in profile/postbit i use it for pro evolution soccer so i would like to see, goals scored, goals conceeded wins, losses etc etc..... (maybe more suitable for a league structure than tournament but u get the idea)
For the ladders, I STRONGLY urge you to use the ELO Rating System. It's the best way to calculate points IMO, and it used by all the big ladder and tournament sites:
yes, the user ID along with username needs to go away. it takes twice the time to create a tournament. besides...users are too incompetent to know what their id is, and how to find it.
I agree with "snapoff " it should be either username or user ID either one entered should be sufficient.
Quote:
Originally Posted by SnapOff Racing
yes, the user ID along with username needs to go away. it takes twice the time to create a tournament. besides...users are too incompetent to know what their id is, and how to find it.
I'd be patient. There have already been TONS of updates since the original version came out. While im no coder, im sure it takes quite a bit of time to implement even smaller changes / updates.. much less such large ones.
Give him some time.. he has already issued more updates, in far less time than most modifications ever get =)