[XB] Tournament Threads: Interactive Brackets 1.0.0

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Create interactive tournament brackets directly inside XenForo threads.

Tournament Threads is a XenForo tournament add-on for community voting, preference brackets, and single-elimination contests. Authors create bracket tournaments with custom contenders while each player completes an independent tournament by choosing a winner from every matchup until one champion remains.

Players can resume unfinished brackets, compare results, publish their completed bracket, and explore community champion statistics without leaving the familiar XenForo thread experience.

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Features:​

Tournament Creation​

• XenForo Tournament Threads: Create tournaments in a dedicated tournament forum or enable them as an additional thread type in regular XenForo discussion forums.
• Tournament Bracket Builder: Add, duplicate, reorder, and remove contenders with titles, subtitles, BB code descriptions, images, image URLs, and score values.
• Tournament Cover: Upload a main tournament image or optionally allow images to be imported from a URL.
• Tournament Seeding: Use ordered or randomized contender seeding.
• Selectable Bracket Size: Optionally allow players to choose the size of their tournament bracket.
• Forum Controls: Configure contender limits, required cover images, first-post presentation, available overview layouts, and whether an empty first post is allowed.

Interactive Tournament Brackets​

• Single-Elimination Tournament Brackets: Every player receives their own tournament bracket and chooses winners independently.
• Head-to-Head Matchups: Choose between two contenders in each match until a final champion is selected.
• Resume Tournament: Continue an unfinished bracket with the same contenders, seeding, and previous choices.
• Undo Choices: Return to the previous matchup during an unfinished tournament, including brackets with automatic advances.
• Keyboard Controls: Select contenders using number or arrow keys for faster tournament play.
• Tournament Progress: Track completed matches and estimated remaining play time.
• Mobile Focus Mode: Expand the active tournament into a distraction-free full-screen mobile interface that persists between matches.

Scheduling & Repeat Play​

• Tournament States: Set tournaments as upcoming, open, paused, or ended while preserving completed results and statistics.
• Tournament Scheduling: Configure optional opening and ending dates in the author's time zone.
• Repeat Play: Allow a single completion, unlimited tournament runs, or repeats after a configurable cooldown.
• Statistics Policies: Choose whether the first, latest, best-scoring, or every completed play contributes to community statistics.

Results & Community Statistics​

• Completed Brackets: Show each player's champion and complete tournament bracket after finishing.
• Community Statistics: Compare pick percentages and see which contenders most frequently become community champions.
• Protected Results: Optionally hide community choices, champions, and participant results until the player completes the tournament.
• Participant Results: Browse completed tournament runs, filter by champion, and sort by score or completion time.
• Individual Results: Open individual or publicly shared completed brackets.
• Result Sharing: Review, copy, or publish a completed tournament result as a native thread reply.
• Tournament Scoring: Calculate scores from selected contenders using configurable score limits and optional negative values.

Ratings & Presentation​

• Tournament Ratings: Allow members to rate tournaments with optional quick rating.
• Top Tournaments Widget: Highlight highly rated tournaments throughout the community.
• Community Champion Layouts: Choose Podium, Spotlight, or Compact layouts for community champion statistics.
• Per-Forum Layout Controls: Restrict which overview layouts authors can select in each tournament forum.
• Style Properties: Customize contender cards, images, bracket spacing, matches, champion panels, results, thread-list previews, and shared result cards through XenForo style properties.

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Permissions:​

• Create Tournaments: Control who can create tournament threads.
• Edit Any Tournament: Allow authorized users to edit tournaments created by other members.
• Play Tournaments: Control who can participate in tournament brackets.
• View Participant Results: Control access to other players' completed tournament results.
• Rate Tournaments: Control who can submit tournament ratings.
• Rate Own Tournaments: Independently control whether authors can rate their own tournaments.

Normal XenForo forum visibility and thread permissions continue to apply. Authors can edit their own tournaments when they have permission to edit the corresponding thread.

Guest tournament participation is supported when permitted by the forum and uses the current browser session to identify the player.

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Requirements:​

• XenForo 2.3.0+

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Useful for:​

• Gaming Tournaments: Create brackets for favorite games, characters, weapons, equipment, classes, or other gaming content.
• Movie & TV Brackets: Let members choose between films, shows, episodes, or characters until one winner remains.
• Music Tournaments: Compare artists, albums, songs, or bands through head-to-head matchups.
• Book Brackets: Run community tournaments for books, authors, characters, or series.
• Food Tournaments: Find community favorites through head-to-head food or recipe comparisons.
• Travel Rankings: Compare destinations, attractions, hotels, or other travel choices.
• Community Brackets: Run interactive preference tournaments without requiring a traditional sports competition.
• Community Voting: Aggregate individual bracket choices into champion and matchup statistics.
• Discussion Threads: Combine interactive tournament play with regular XenForo replies and discussion.

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See More Add-ons Like This:​

• New Thread Types
• User Engagement
• Thread Improvements

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FAQ:​

• Is this a tournament add-on for users or teams? Tournament Threads is designed for interactive choice and preference brackets. Contenders are items that members compare, rather than registered users or teams competing in scheduled matches.
• Which tournament bracket format is supported? Each tournament uses a single-elimination bracket in which the selected contender advances until one champion remains.
• Can I add tournament brackets to an existing XenForo forum? Yes. Tournaments can use a dedicated forum type or appear as an additional thread type in a regular discussion forum.
• Does everyone share one tournament bracket?
  No. Each player completes an independent bracket. Community statistics aggregate results and choices from eligible completed plays.
• What happens when the number of contenders is not a power of two?
  The playable bracket is reduced to the largest supported power of two within the available contenders and selected bracket size.
• Can authors change a tournament after someone starts playing?
  Yes. Existing plays retain their seeding, options, and contender score values. If a contender is removed, the remaining contender can advance automatically.
• Can members complete the same tournament more than once?
  Yes. Authors can allow one completion, unlimited repeats, or repeat plays after a cooldown.
• How do repeat plays affect community statistics?
  The tournament author can choose whether the first, latest, best-scoring, or every completed play contributes. Starting an unfinished replay does not remove a previous completed result.
• Can tournament results stay hidden until a player finishes?
  Yes. Community choices, champions, and participant results can remain hidden until the player completes their bracket.
• Can players share their completed tournament bracket?
  Yes. Completed results can be reviewed, copied, or published as a native reply in the tournament thread.

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Screenshots:​

Tournament experience​

Result sharing​

Tournament creation​

Forum presentation​

Administration​