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[Screenshot of Single Elimination Tournament (Slightly outdated)]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

[gamerscms]

Here is a wish list i would like to see in this hack.

• More tournament types: 2v2 3v3 and so on
• some sort of results page where it shows the current ranking of a team/player with an ongoing tournament.
• Challenge feature
• add banners to the create new tournament.

I have a lot of ideas and willing to pay for some custom work to be added.

thanks banana for your great work.

[Chris11987]

Instead of adding 2v2, 3v3 and stuff, why not just change the "1v1" option to "Standard", and whenever "Teams" is selected people will know what the rules are anyways.

[djlotus]

Originally Posted by Chris11987

Instead of adding 2v2, 3v3 and stuff, why not just change the "1v1" option to "Standard", and whenever "Teams" is selected people will know what the rules are anyways.

Because, in my case, I run 4 variations of teams. 2v2, 4v4, 8v8, and 16v16. It is good to leave no questions when a user views a tourney.

[Chris11987]

Ah I see. Well maybe the selection field can be replaced by a custom field so the creator can put "4v4" or something for the type of tourney.

[Strafe]

Originally Posted by Chris11987

Ah I see. Well maybe the selection field can be replaced by a custom field so the creator can put "4v4" or something for the type of tourney.

You can do that by replacing phrase, but it would replace for all your tournaments. A temp solution until then.

I think maybe just have an input field and the creator can put whatever text they want in that field would be nice..

Not everyone on our forums would understand what LMS means anyways.

[camomouse]

This has killed my Site!

[Darkpsy]

My wish list:

- Ability to specify games and assign a tournament to a game group
- Ability to assign a moderator to one or more tournaments. That moderator will only have edit access on the tournaments he/she is assigned to
- Ability to start a tournament even if the number of participants isn't reached. This would be good where many tournaments are running at the same time.

[camomouse]

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.3:

Invalid SQL:

			SELECT t.champion, u.userid FROM tournaments AS t
			LEFT JOIN user AS u ON (t.champion = u.username)
			WHERE champion<>'';

MySQL Error   : Unknown column 't.champion' in 'field list'
Error Number  : 1054
Request Date  : Friday, September 26th 2008 @ 08:57:34 PM
Error Date    : Friday, September 26th 2008 @ 08:57:35 PM
Script        : http://xaax.biz/forums/showthread.php?t=12346
Referrer      : http://xaax.biz/forums/halo_3/
IP Address    : 71.28.9.189
Username      : CamoMouse
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.51b-community-nt

How do I get that to stop? There are now plugins installed of Tournaments. As far as I know, Tournaments should not exits on my site but I'm getting nothing but MySql errors when you visit my site. I need help.

[Strafe]

What did you do? did you install then uninstall? Tournament is a product not a plugin btw.

[camomouse]

Ah hell Strafe, Don't get all technical on me. I know it's a product. I was typing fast and not thinking.

No, I went to import the product and got a Database Sql error. Now when you try to view a post or a pm, I get a whacked out Database Sql error. I went and delete the database entries and that didn't help. I check the templates, nothing there either. I'm drawing a blank.