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 **

[ProFifaLeagues]

This mod is one of those you just know will be better with each release!
Thanks again Banana superb work on the beta

[champendk]

Nice feature with the league but it could still use some small changes like season calendar and stuff.

And it would be nice to set the number on how many playerspots that would result in moving up to the above devision for the nest season.

And i tried to make a season, but when i make a new one the top players dosnt get assigned to the right devision. Like no 1 in the first division might start in 3. devision next season?


Maybe ad a bottom that says make new season, so when people sign up for next season the get added to the right devision,


For inspiration look at this link:

http://demo.joomsport.com/uefa-champions-league.html

[ProFifaLeagues]

Here you may find some other options we run on our league system too and if you need any info or details please feel free to pm me
http://progamer.fifa-gaming.com/
(Some functions wont work as you arent logged as a running a team)

Again just to say this mod is the best on Vbull and one we use to the max on various sites so a big thanks again Banana

[champendk]

Agree... Best mod on VB

[Shadawg]

Here's a list of my idea's on things you can improve and do to make the script even better.

When your on a category homepage, it shows you the recent matches. I think it would be better if the winning team had a green score and the losing team had a red score.

Another idea for an actual ladder is to leave the strip that has the ladder icon, players in the ladder and the ladder name, but merge the ladder rules with the general rules tab next to find match.

The option to add a banner across a category homepage.

[betts02]

Would be good if the league system could be made into a different mod itself and work along side this mod if wanted

Gona keep an eye on this as i really want a league as opposed to the ladders

[betts02]

Just some additions if possible

Have a the league system on its own, So you do not have to click ladder,etc to make one
Also makes it easier for others to find the league as its in the ladders atm

In the settings have the admin select who goes into what divisions at the start of a season

Have an option to have a selected ammount of teams per division

Automatically promote top 2/3 teams into next division
Automatically drop bottom 2/3 teams into lower division

Let team captains submit results and if both teams results match, it automatically makes the changes to the league

If a match between 2 teams have different results, Send a PM to admins to admins and let admins correct the score

Would be good if this can have also :

Played
Won
Lost
Drawn - Optional setting as some league would want a win or loss system
For
Against
Difference
Points

Cheers

[WaterAir]

Originally Posted by bananalive

1. This issue has been fixed for v4.3.4
2. Users will be able to dispute team challenges in v4.3.4+
3. Make sure you set the match date in the future. Matches will only show in the match finder in they are in the future.

Awesome changes in the new version. I'm really digging the My Team List link and testing out the leagues feature.

I still can't get the match comments to work with 4.3.4. Is there a setting that I have to change in the vB admin in order to get this working?

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Pay-for-play is currently unavailable and is not due to be included in the next release but may be available in the future.

If you want "pay to play" just make a pay usergroup, & they cant join the ladder/tournament unless they are in that usergroup.

Originally Posted by betts02

Have a the league system on its own, So you do not have to click ladder,etc to make one
Also makes it easier for others to find the league as its in the ladders atm

I'm not 100% sure i understand what you mean, but you can just make a new tab/button/link that goes to ladders.php or tournaments.php or any other url you wanted to use.

I have a tab that goes to each individual game ladder or tournament. Works great. Now if i could just get people to use it. lol

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by WaterAir

I still can't get the match comments to work with 4.3.4. Is there a setting that I have to change in the vB admin in order to get this working?

You need to set your usergroup permissions:

AdminCP -> Usergroups -> Usergroup Manager -> {Select a Usergroup} -> More Tournament and Ladder Permissions -> Can Comment on Ladder Matches