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[Screenshot of Single Elimination Tournament (Slightly outdated)]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

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by XShava

Install and gets error in Team page when click team name.

Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in [path]/competitions.php on line 2987

Hmmm... not sure why you get that error, works fine on my vB

Find in competitions.php

PHP Code:

$array = implode(",", $array); 


Replace with

PHP Code:

//$array = implode(",", $array); 


[Toupsx]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Use product-errorfix2008.xml to completely uninstall modification tables. (Only use if you have no tournament data, it completely uninstalls the mod.)

Okay.. well I have tournament data.. so that would erase it..

[gamerscms]

There is a bug in the add new user to team, when adding a user no matter which user i enter i get the following message

Ultra Shotz is not a forum member, please check your spelling. Click here to go back to the team page.

[gamerscms]

There is a bug in the add new user to team, when adding a user no matter which user i enter i get the following message and he is a forum member all spelt correct.

Ultra Shotz is not a forum member, please check your spelling. Click here to go back to the team page.

[EHSkaRMa]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Have a go at this... it should hopefully disable Donation System for whole of tournament & ladders modification.

Open plugin 'DSL-Parse Modules'
Find...

PHP Code:

if (substr(THIS_SCRIPT,-6,6)!="verify" && !defined(IN_MKP) && substr(THIS_SCRIPT,0,4)!="dyna") 


Replace With...

PHP Code:

if (substr(THIS_SCRIPT,-6,6)!="verify" && !defined(IN_MKP) && substr(THIS_SCRIPT,0,4)!="dyna" && THIS_SCRIPT!="tournament2008") 


Where would I find DSL-Parse Modules?
I looked in my plugins but dont see anything like that. I have the newest version (0.2.1) of the donation system

[iogames]

why don't u make the graphics from bottom to top?

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Hmmm... not sure why you get that error, works fine on my vB

Find in competitions.php

PHP Code:

$array = implode(",", $array); 


Replace with

PHP Code:

//$array = implode(",", $array); 


Sorry, but where do i find "competitions.php"
What is it under.?

Also if you put in a "team logo" it pushes it off the page to the right.?
Any ideas.?

[valendono]

I try "Special Usergroups can add Forum Members to Any Team without confirmation from team leader or the forum member" .. that username or user id ?

Add User to Team: testing

than

testing is not a forum member, please check your spelling. Click here to go back to the team page.

error or bugs ?

[mikeo9043]

Cool, I will give this one a try later

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by EHSkaRMa

Where would I find DSL-Parse Modules?
I looked in my plugins but dont see anything like that. I have the newest version (0.2.1) of the donation system

Oh, i downloaded v1.0.0, I'll have a look again for you.

Originally Posted by gamerscms

There is a bug in the add new user to team, when adding a user no matter which user i enter i get the following message and he is a forum member all spelt correct.

Yep, sorry. I'll release fix in next version but here's the manual fix
Find in competitions.php

PHP Code:

    $u = $result['userid'];
    if ($userid == '') { 


Replace with

PHP Code:

    $u = $result['userid'];
    if ($u == '') { 


Originally Posted by iogames

why don't u make the graphics from bottom to top?

Sorry I don't understand. What graphics are you referring to?

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Sorry, but where do i find "competitions.php"
What is it under.?

Also if you put in a "team logo" it pushes it off the page to the right.?
Any ideas.?

competitions.php is the main php file for this modification included in the archive of the first post of this thread.

Originally Posted by valendono

I try "Special Usergroups can add Forum Members to Any Team without confirmation from team leader or the forum member" .. that username or user id ?

Add User to Team: testing

than

testing is not a forum member, please check your spelling. Click here to go back to the team page.

error or bugs ?

You enter the Username of the forum member. See above.