Tournaments 1.3.1

This application is designed for those who want to run tournaments on
their site. It is not for the actual gaming itself to take palce through
the app in any way, but rather for your members to create and join
teams, sign up for tournaments, submit scores of the matches which take
place somewhere else, and then the system keeps track of it all and
declares the winning team once the tournament is completed.

[b]Warning:
For older versions, due to a bug in ip.board you may need to have your
default skin be the normal default ip.board skin when installing this or
it won't install the templates.[/b]

Here are some of the many features:[list]
[*]Create categories.
[*]Unlimited number of subcategories.
[*]Create tournaments which fit into the categories.
[*]A count of open tournaments in each category is kept.
[*]Create teams (max teams per member is set in the ACP).
[*]The
team creator determines how many members should be on his or her team,
approves or declines applications to the team, and can kick people off
of the team.
[*]Teams join tournaments which allow teams with their
number of members. there are numerous settings on the tournament form
to allow for various combinations of teams.
[*]Tournaments are
created in the ACP. The one who creates the tournament can invite teams
to it on the public side. Anyone with access to this app in the ACP
could edit the tournament.
[*]brackets- single and double
elimination brackets are one type of tournament. You can create a 4, 8,
16, 32, or 64 team tournament at this point and add byes if you don't
have the correct number of teams wanting to join.
[*]ladders-
manual move teams on a ladder absed on their performance orL base it
automatically on wins, on a simple formula, on ELO ratings (more
complicated and precise), etc...
[*]round robin- each team plays each other team x number of times and the team with the best record wins that tournament.
[*]Create an invite only tournament.
[*]Use
a standalone point system with the system. Then you can allow team
leaders to charge points to join their team. Then those team points are
kept separately and can be used to join tournaments which cost points to
join. Points can also be obtained in various ways. For individual
points with the standalone system you can gain more poitns by
commenting. With the internal team points system you can gain some by
winning matches or tournaments.
[*]There are many many settings in
the ACP. Especially on tournament forms. Be careful with them as there
are so many which could interfere with a team's ability to put new
memebrs on their teams while involved in a tournament.
[*]Upload logos for categories, tournaments, and teams.
[*]Much more.
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Please
Note: This is a first release and some things will improve over time.
The bracket skinning will be improved, some things will behave
differently, co-leader functionality will be added, ability for
ties/draws, disputing methods, and more overall management of various
areas.

Also: Keep in mind this has not been tested in strict
PHP/MySQL environments. At some point I will fix issues which could thus
allow for it to run smooth in those various setups, but be aware that I
am not speaking as to how well it would currently do in those
environments.