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 **

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by champendk

How do i change the words, Best of, and map when i create a challenge? cause it dosnt make sense when it comes to soccer :-)

Edit ladders.php, line 245-250

PHP Code:

$chal_options = serialize(
        array(
            'Best Of' => '',
            'Map' => ''
        )
    ); 


to

PHP Code:

$chal_options = serialize(array()); 


[LichtMann]

Hi!

I have some questions and requests I would be glad to donate for your work!

- It is possible to create tournaments, where the first stage is a based group? Then for example the first 2 of each group pass to the final bracket.

- Also for the tournaments, it is possible to give some seeds? For example there are 16 teams signed up and now I would like to choose who are the best teams, then the rest of the teams will get random positions (in brackets or groups)

- A hook system inside the tournaments system would be very useful! I have made some changes, and now I have to revert many things. Also I could help you to develop the product in any case.

I have added:

- Maximum time for accepting a challenge and for submitting results. Email notifications near the deadlines. The main idea is to keep the ladder players playing. Penalties.
- Widget for Recent matches and upcoming matches.

Question:
-How could I add the tournaments matches to a recent matches widget? Is there any lan to implement a tournaments matches table in the database?

Thank you and great job!

[wampforum]

Love this mod mate, cheers. I have a couple of questions.

On the match finder where you input your details is it possible to create an extra field (or 3 even) where people can fill in text? Our ladder matches are based on a choice of 3 themes offered by the challenger so been able to wite this in the match finder details would be great.

Secondly is it possible to have a postbit stat showing a persons current ranking on the ladder?

[ProFifaLeagues]

When using the match finder now after some probs with time zones which is now fixed we can not seem to set up a match.
When following the steps to find match then choosing Create challenge for Match Finder,then submit it but nothing shows for this????
any ideas please guys?

[ProFifaLeagues]

Sorted the above (was because of some templetes i had altered to suit us)
So all seems a1 again thanks Banana

[ProFifaLeagues]

Would there be a way that players who are in a ladder can click a link in the navbar to jump into the match finder right away??

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by rammieone

Would there be a way that players who are in a ladder can click a link in the navbar to jump into the match finder right away??

You could use the link http://localhost/ladders.php?do=view&id=1&sh=5
(replacing 1 with the appropriate ladder id)

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by wampforum

Love this mod mate, cheers. I have a couple of questions.

On the match finder where you input your details is it possible to create an extra field (or 3 even) where people can fill in text? Our ladder matches are based on a choice of 3 themes offered by the challenger so been able to wite this in the match finder details would be great.

Secondly is it possible to have a postbit stat showing a persons current ranking on the ladder?

1. Yes: Edit Ladder -> alter Challenge Extra Fields
(You can add as many Extra Fields as you need.)

2. No.

[bananalive]

Has anyone tried the new 'Submit Loss' system for Single Elimination player tournaments?

[ProFifaLeagues]

thanks mate thats helped me no end!!!!
Loving this match finder

Will there be a way a player can get a pm when a match up is made on the match finder(for when a player takes on there challenge)

Also is there a way im missing that when a challenge on the ladder has been set it can auto post this up in the forum as well ???