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A couple of quick questions.

1. re. Ladders, I see where I input start and end date/times in description. But I don't see where they are displayed for users.
2. again re. Ladders, My tournament descriptions are appearing in the competition forum I specified in settings->options. But I don't see my Ladder descriptions. Should they be appearing too?

Great mod!

Thanks!

This is great news. Just what I have been looking for. Hope it comes off.

I recently had an issue with a version which is now fixed. I went back to a earlier version of the ladder. v4.2.4 just to have it running while a fix was made.

is it possible for me to just upgrade to the current version? or do i need to remove the v4.2.4 then do a fresh install?

Great work!!!

A little question:isn't possible auto-submit results?

Join User Tables to User Profile Tables
Enables display of user profile fields in tournament brackets and ladders. Not necessary unless you want to user {vb:raw userinfo.field1} in template tmnt_bracket. Note: will slightly increase server load on some pages.


If i click this i get database ewrrors

Is there anything i have to do here ?
Do i have to add the "{vb:raw userinfo.field1" to the template - tmnt_bracket ?

Cheers

On what page are you getting the database error?

Sorry, I do not understand what you mean

An upgrade should be fine. If you completely uninstall it, then you will lose and ladders, tournaments, teams and all data.

1. See attached screenshot. Depending on the time now, it will display ladder finsihed at ... or ladder starting at... or ladder ending at..

2. Are you using the new layout or the old one? The 'Maximum Description Length' option is the maximum description preview length to be shown throughout this modification

AdminCP -> Edit User

Edit Tournament Wins
Edit Tournament Joins

When i go to create a ladder/tournament

Its ok now but if i click to "Join User Tables to User Profile Tables" it just takes me to a database error

I do not have this option clicked atm due to the error and it works fine, But as stated if i click to have the option

I get the error as soon as i click to create an event

In Statistics:

Lost tournaments
Tournaments in a draw

In Contacts

Methods of communication with the creator of the team: ICQ, Skype etc.

In Additional information

Game server: IP: port
Convenient time to play the team
So-lider: Nickname

Actually I was referring to the post made in the forum defined in "Create Thread" of Tournament and Ladders Options in Settings. Are only Tournaments posted there? Not Ladders?

Also, I have been trying to use HTML in the Ladder Descriptions when I define a ladder. Tables primarily. Can that be done?

Thanks!!!

Love this mod!

Request to please add a way to control the landing page selection.

Currently lands at competitions.php?
I'd like to be able to have it land at competitions.php?c=3

That would be awesome!

Nice mod BTW :-)

Looks like there is a bit of an issue (for me anyway) with the creating teams form section. The screen scrolls a vey long way to the right. The form is in the center, but it is so far right it can easily be missed. Something is amiss with the container.

I am using a div to "frame" the page but it does not affect other pages.
http://forum.ottawagolf.com/competitions.php?

It is messed up for me on Win7 & IE9. Same thing for one of my users on IE8 (I assume win7)

It is working fine for me on a system here running xp and IE8. Works in Safari, Chrome and Firefox too.

Any ideas?

The page is XHTML valid, so it should display fine on all modern browsers. I'm afraid I'm not really sure whether it is windows 7 or some other factor causing the problem.

Open competitions.php

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Yes, that is currently for tournaments only. As of v4.3.4+ it will create a new thread for ladders as well.
Only bbcode is allowed, but there is a [table] bb code available.

Can you view page source, and post the mysql error here please

Thanks that did it. It would be nice to be able to set that in admin :-)

It was worth a try....:confused:

Same problem on tournaments comments page.

Couple of quick questions -

1. How are seasons intended to be used?
2. Can I name my seasons? Could I have a Winter, Spring, Summer & Fall season? And if not through a form to name seasons, what db table field are they in?

Thanks!

hmmm ... I tried bbcode in the ladder description. The bb codes did not convert. Instead they were displayed.

Also re. teams - I have one person creating two man teams. Once he adds the two participants he makes them both leaders, and removes himself. But the challenge notifications are still going to the creator (ie. founder). Even though he has left the team.

Am I wrong? Or can that be changed?

The xp for winning tournament is buggy, sometime it dos not reg the points on the ladder?

And i cant figure out how to ad and remove points manually?

One of the requests I have had is "can ELO carry over from ladder to ladder?". Which I don't think it does. Is there, or could there be, an option to do this?

Also, I haven't figured out seasons yet. But It would be even better if I could make ELO carry over from ladder to ladder within a season. Could that be possible?

Thanks!

There's no option at the moment, but it's something i might add an option for in the future.

Seasons allow you to link different ladders together. Here's a video on youtube about seasons

vBulletin Options -> BB Code Settings -> Allow BB Code in Non Forum Specific Areas
Corrected for next release.

Here's how edit a ladder player's xp, elo rating, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHbFQxZXihg

Seasons use their ladder title so if you wanted spring, summer, etc. create ladders called

Blue Ladder Spring 2011,
Blue Ladder Fall 2011,
Blue Ladder Summer 2011, etc.

They both use the small vbulletin wysiwyg editor, so it might be something to do with that.

I have not fully tested this but i have recently installed a fresh version

Is it possible to let team leaders submit the results of a tournament ?

If both teams have different scores can it send a PM to all users with permissions to edit scores
If scores are correct from both teams can it automatically put the winner through and add the scores

And if possible a League system would be great, I would even pay towards that

Cheers for the great works mate

Already set to "Yes". But the bb code for tables didn't take.

This happens for ladders at the moment.
I'm developing the league at the moment, just got to work on how to place players/teams in groups, depending on their position in their previous league season.

Will it be coming so teams/players can do this in tournaments ?

Also maybe have an option to drop/promote 1/2/3 teams/players
If not let the admins do this, As long as the league works admins can place teams into each division if they choose to

Great mod.

Is there a way to get 64 players in double elimination instead of just 8?

Cant wait....


Make sure that there will be a option to make teams re-register(not start all over but kind of check-in) for every season, as people tent to drop out. This will secure that all teams are ready for the next season, and you won´t have a 2. devision with 2 teams and 12 in 3. devision.

One of our users created a team name that contained an apostrophe and a question mark which caused a server error when he tried to have that team join a tournament. We renamed the team and he joined successfully.
Problem is he tried 5 times unsuccessfully and the number of available team spots was reduced by 5. I can't find a way to put the 5 team spots back.
Your assistance would be appreciated.

Congratulations bananalive. I have some question..

I need your help

As I can do to make when I go to Match Finder, appears the name of the player nominated and not only the date?

I would appreciate very much, is what I need to use this system, thanks.

FYI 4.3.2 still shows. (and version list is out dated) :)

As Game said, it still says the previous version.

Also, I am having some issues of my own. This looks like an amazing mod and I am excited about trying to work the current bugs out. If anyone could help me out or let me know if these are known bugs it'd be great!

Issue 1: Can't post match comments. (as seen in attachment t1 and t2)

Issue 2: Can't dispute a match in the teams ladder. (as seen in attachment t1)

Issue 3: Match isn't added to match finder when I create a match finder challenge. (as seen in attachment t3)

Issue 4: EDIT: This issue seems to work fine on another PC, disregard the last 2 attachment files.

Thanks for the help in advance and I'm looking forward to new updates!

Oh! and a really nice feature that I think would be somewhat easy to add would be a simple link (either at the top as a sublink under Teams or left side bar) that says "My Teams" that you could click to see which teams you're on... either that or add something to the vB profile that links a players team with their profile.

Here's a question that probably isn't asked on a regular basis:

Is there a way to require the user to make a PayPal payment before being able to enter?

I'm planning on making a "Gaming for Charity" site, in which each tournament will have a low entry fee, and then the winner of said tournament will get a cut of the entry money, as well as a charity of their choice, and then of course, the remaining money goes to the house.

Pay to play would certainly be a nice ad-on to this awesome mod and maybe a feature to controle which usergroups that can enter diffrent ladders tournaments.

I don't think this mod supports a feature like this, as of now.

I'm really looking forward to the new league feature, and hopefully will figure out how to make it to where teams can dispute matches (instead of only players ladders) and getting my match finder fixed.

I can see it getting confusing if a user doesn't log in for a while and tries to create or join a team and can't because they're already on a team and don't know which team they're on (I have registered users set up to only be able to create 1 team). They would then have to go through the entire team list to see all of the teams that they may have been on in order to leave it. It'd be awesome if it could somehow be simplified with a link showing the teams that they're on so that they can leave them or see their roster.

A couple of questions.

First is it possible to alter the player image? (the one who's url shows the players latest ranking for sigs etc?)

Secondly, I use the ELO ratin system for my ladder but I have the odd anomoly. I have a guy thats played 4 won3 and drawn 1 yest has less points than when he started!! Is that a glitch?

The error message for reaching usergroup limit of number of teams a user can create has been altered for next version, with a link to view all the teams the user has created.

Users can already access this via:

http://www.yousite.com/forums/compet...eams&myteams=1

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

1. How did you want it altered?

2. If a player's has 3 wins, 1 draw, 0 loses, then they should have elo rating higher than the starting elo rating. Although it depends on the elo rating's of the other people you play, e.g. only drawing against the worst player in the ladder, will decrease your elo rating (but not by as much as if they beat you).

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.

Fixed issue for next version.

You'll have to edit the tournament via PHPMYADMIN or create new tournament and then add the teams to it.

User/team names are omitted so that players cannot cherry pick easy players to improve their number of wins.

To show player names you'll have to edit template 'tmnt_ladder_display', and player name some in this bit of html code:

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It's going to be a one click sign-up like a ladder.

Sorry not at the moment

v4.3.4 Beta

• Leagues
• My Teams Page
• Categories in navbar
• Report team challenges

How to set-up a league: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_6CGuf5lJE

Beta Installed A1 off away to test now.Thanks again Banana

How ? I don't understound :confused:

I could explain or give an example and should leave the code to display postulates?

This is immense mate. Will test it out.

I'll add a vBulletin option to show player/ team name for match finder in next version

vBulletin 4.1.2 / Tournaments & Ladders Manager v4.3.4beta :

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2. Bug in the team's (with special characters):

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Hey, I just added Full House Poker to my competitions page and tried setting up a 10 player FFA poker tournament, but I can't do that because there's no option for 10 players. Maybe you could allow us to imput our own # of players for a FFA in one of the future releases? I'm fine using the 8 player FFA for now.

Thanks Bananalive, wonderful !!!

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

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

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

Agree... Best mod on VB

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.

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

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

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?

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




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. :D

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

You need to set your usergroup permissions:

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

Added as vBulletin Option in v4.3.5
I'm not sure what you mean.
Added for v4.3.5

Added link to create new season (ladder/league) in seasons dropdown menu, and will have the right options selected.

Added more options in v4.3.5

All fixed for v4.3.5 apart from:

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I'm not sure what this is showing?

This tag team.

Ah ok, fixed for v4.3.5

There will be a new vBulletin Option to control how many are promoted/demoted based on the results from previous season.

when the league if finnished it would be "easy" for you to use same model for groupstages :-) so we could have groups where ex 10 groups where best 2 from eace group goes to playoff(normal bracket)

this mod has become more than i ever dreamed of...

than you banana for all your hard work, i sure hope people donates

Superb news thank you for the updates they make this mod the BEST!

Leagues

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/attac...1&d=1302022621

Bottom player moves down, top player moves up.

Starting position in season 2 (right hand side of screenshot above) will be random to start with, then once results are submitted, players will then be ranked properly.

If player4 had joined season 2 then player4 would have been put in Group 2

v4.3.5

-League
-Double Round Robin
-Added vBulletin Options
-New League is separate page from New Ladder
-Easier new season creation
-New vBulletin Options
-Category banners (supports bb code not html)
-My teams page
-and other minor fixes, additions

will give this a try tonight mate

MANY, MANY thanks for all your work

Great mod... I installed the original,, and have just upgraded but cant find the league module anywhere ? selected overwrite when I upgraded xml...

its in there mate, just download it as usual

are you saying you have it running (the league that is) any chance of a link to check it out buddy.

aa.png - You can see it has no option for "LEAGUES"

ac.jpg - The option to add a "NEW LEAGUE" is there when you hover over "LADDERS"

ad.png - Still showing as a "LADDER" when its a "LEAGUE"

ae.png - What is this ? Really do not understand what the option is meant for

ag.png - How would you place players into different "Divisions" ?

af.png - League over with, How would you go to the next season and have the players move up/down ?

Cheers

Ah.... only shows if you have "top navigation" selected..

Can anyone help me with the following error? It occurs when I got to create an event for this mod.

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I will release a bug fix for this shortly.

Thanks Bananalive. You're one of the best developers on this site. Thanks for the great work.

Added to side navigation for next release

Leagues will remain under Ladders for next few versions.

Use Seasons to link leagues together.

• So Edit League -> Seasons: New Seasons Group
• Saves Changes
• When viewing league, click dropdown of Seasons and select 'New League'
  https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/external/2011/04/52.jpg

Once this is done then the players will move up/down from their previous seasons group

Also if possible can you make the leagues part like :

Played
Won
Drawn
Lost
For
Against
Points

The above can cover most leagues that people use, Also people can easily then change the name of them if needed

Also option to place players/teams in to a selected league by admin before the season starts

I will update this today and test it again as i did the above last night with the last updated and it never worked

The players never moved to the next season

Players will need to click 'Join League' on the new season or you will need to add them.

Edit: added to next version, under 'Add Player(s)' an admin will be able to add all the players from a previous season.

Most of those stats are in league currently:

Played = Total Matches
Won= Wins
Drawn = Draws
Lost=Losses
For? I'm not sure what you mean by this
Against? I'm not sure what you mean by this
Points= Total Points

You change change the phrase text in vbulletin phrase manager

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/attac...1&d=1302097844

say for football it would be Goals for - Goals against :)

If you used this for say Football (Soccer)

At the end of a season you could have 2 teams with the same points

But if you had - For - this would be how many goals they have scored
Against - this would be how many goals they have had scored against them

Team a - For - 30 ----- Against - 10 - this would give them a difference of +20
Team b - For - 30 ----- Against - 14 - this would give them a difference of +16

So team A would be the winner

Edit: nevermind :)

Currently you have it where there's the section for us to post rules and other information on each ladder. You also have the main ladders & tournament rules that show up in the tab I recommended a month or so ago.

I'm trying to say merge the rules into the tab for the ladders. Keep the rules how they are for the tournaments. The rules tab for the ladders though should be customizable for each ladder. Right now you have it so we can edit the rules and they show up for all ladders. Make the rules tab on each ladder customizable so we can edit the rules for each ladder and they don't show up on the actual ladder page (you have to click the rules page to view the rules).

For example I cutout a image of the current view of a ladder and the way it would look after you remove the section. That information you would have there would show up in the Rules tab.
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Another idea I would like to suggest is a Prize tab on Tournaments.