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Liquipedia aims to be the definitive source for all things StarCraft. This site is a wiki, which means that it is user-driven and dependent on your contributions. We welcome any and all contributions; the information on this page is defines the scope of what content to add. So if you need some help with the fundamentals of wiki editing in general here are some resources:

Formatting and Good English[edit]

Templates[edit]

We have an easy-to-follow template for almost every type of page. Check the List of Templates page for a list of almost any type of page you want to make or wiki-template you want to use! All coding is done for you. If you need some extra code done, just find us on the Liquipedia Discord Server.

Copy Editing[edit]

There is always room to improve the spelling, grammar, and tone of most of our articles. Even without much factual knowledge, you can help us improve the quality of articles on this wiki.

Style[edit]

We try to enforce a style guide with the intent of giving the wiki a more unified look. Treat it as a guideline, as other people can always clean up your work later.

Factual Content:Leagues, Maps, Players, Teams[edit]

Please note that inclusion of pages in mainspace as well as tier decisions are ultimately up to the discretion of the Liquipedia administrators.

Sadly, not everything can be added to the wiki. We want all our pages to be as up-to-date as possible and to meet our quality standards in general. That is made harder the more pages are created, not to mention additional factors, such as the fact that lower ranked teams tend to not have social media where they announce transfers, and so on.

Now, these are not non-negotiable. This wiki contains coverage of certain teams and players that may not strictly meet our notability requirements, however they are considered to be of special importance to their local scene or to StarCraft 2 history as a whole. Any pages that do not meet these guidelines will not be deleted, but will be moved to your user space.

Please keep in mind that the below stated criteria are applied at the time of page creation (or move from user to main space) and not retroactively. If a page was notable at the time it was created it will not be moved to user space when the criteria are updated.

All prize values mentioned below are to be understood as USD.

If you disagree with the decision for a certain page, please feel free to come chat in our Discord.

Guidelines[edit]

Players[edit]

Who and what to add?[edit]

Players may receive their individual pages, as long as they surpass a certain threshold of notability. Check the bullet points below. If your chosen player fits at least one of these, then they are likely notable to warrant a page on this wiki.

  • Achievements: If the player has earned at least $250 USD in tournaments (determined by the earnings displayed in the notability checker) and earned at least 10 notability points (definition see below).
  • Strategies: If this player has made widely known strategies.
  • Points: If the player has earned 20 notability points. Points are determined via a lpdb query and are awarded as follows:
    • Misc events and Qualifiers are ignored for points.
    • Any prize pool placement with at least a prize earning of $2 on main space pages awards 1 notability point.
    • Winning an event with a page in main space awards additional points depending on the prize earning of the player in question for that event.
      • If the first place prize is $25 or less an additional 0.25 points are awarded.
      • If the first place prize is higher than $25, but lower than $50 an additional 0.5 points are awarded.
      • If the first place prize is $50 or more an additional point is awarded.
    • Winning a Premier or Major event will award additional 19 points.


Check out our Notability checker for players.

To create a new player page, follow the Player Template.

Achievements[edit]

The purpose of an article's achievements paragraph is to display the most notable achievements that have been earned thus far by a player. This section needs to be as concise as possible, meaning that it should not include every single thing that a player has done in their career. The update of the Achievement table is done automatically with the exception of All Kills in All-Kill Format Team Events.

Teams[edit]

A Team may receive a team page, as long as it surpasses a certain threshold of notability. If your chosen team has at least one top class player (reached a finals or two semifinals or three quarterfinals in Premier Tournaments) or fits at least two of the bullet points below, then it is likely notable to warrant a page on this wiki.

  • The team has earned at least $850 in the last 3 years from Players Earnings while on the Team (excluding Team Events).
  • The team has at least one notable player who has reached the round of 8 in a Major or Premier event or at least two players with a Liquipedia page in main space.
  • The team has achievements in team leagues with a Liquipedia page in the last 3 years (as defined by the Notability tool linked below).


Check out our Notability checker for teams.

To create a new team page, follow the Team Template.

Academy- and Sub-Teams of notable Teams[edit]

Academy- and Sub-Teams of notable Teams may get a subpage (without their own Results/Player Results/Matches subpages) if the bellow criteria are all fullfilled:

  • the Academy-/Sub-Team played in at least 5 events in the last 3 years
  • the Academy-/Sub-Team has at least one placement with earnings stored in the LiquipediaDataBase (LPDB).

Commentators[edit]

Commentators may receive their individual pages, as long as they surpass a certain threshold of notability. Check the bullet points below. If your chosen commentators fits at least two of these, then they are likely notable to warrant a page on this wiki.

  • If the commentator has casted 2 or more EPT Global Main Events, EPT Korea Main Events or Playoffs of Premier EPT Circuit Main Events (in past years WCS).1
  • If the commentator has casted 5 or more Premier Tournaments (including EPT Circuit Main Event Group Stages).
  • If the commentator has casted 8 or more tournaments of tier Major or Premier that have no tier-type set.

To create a new Broadcaster page, please follow the Broadcaster Template.

1In 2020 and 2021 due to COVID19 changes this also applies to main stream commentators.

Tournament Organizers[edit]

Tournament Organizers may receive their individual pages, as long as they surpass a certain threshold of notability. Check the bullet points below. If your chosen Tournament Organizers fits at least one of these, then they are likely notable to warrant a page on this wiki.

  • If the Tournament Organizer has run 2 or more Premier Tournaments.
  • If the Tournament Organizer has run 3 or more Tournament Series1 as main organizer with (in average) each a prize pool of at least $50 USD per event.
  • If the Tournament Organizer has run 5 or more Major Tournaments.
  • If the Tournament Organizer has run 25 or more Tournaments. And the 25 tournaments with the highest prize pool among those organized by the organizer have (in average) each a prize pool of at least $50 USD.

1In regards to this notability criteria a series consists of at least 7 events.

Leagues and Tournaments[edit]

Single-player Leagues and tournaments1 with a cash prize of at least

  • $50 for tournaments,
  • $25 for regularly occurring tournaments,

should be added right away for documentary purposes.

For non-single-player (team, 2v2, ...) tournaments1 the required cash prizes are doubled compared to the single-player tournament values.

For tournaments that consist of several sub-tournaments each of these sub-tournaments is treated as a single tournament and has to pass the notability criteria. If such a sub-tournament is notable it should get its own page (incl. infobox). Sub-tournaments that do not fulfil the criteria by themselves should not be added to the wiki. Qualifiers and Show Matches as part of notable events are not affected by this, they can be added at editors discretion but still on their own page(s).

To create a new tournament page, follow the Tournament Tutorial and Tournament Template.

1Tournaments with mixed team and 1v1 formats are considered a 1v1 tournament, if at least 1/3 of the played matches are in the 1v1 part of the tournament.

Liquipedia Tiers[edit]

Main Tier

Tournaments are divided into 4 Main Tiers, most commonly according to the awarded Prize Pool.

This is achieved by adding

|liquipediatier=

into the infobox league of the event, followed by a number ranging from 1 to 4.

Non-Standard tournaments, like e.g. Bot tournaments, Charity tournaments etc. generally get assigned the Misc Tier (|liquipediatier=-1).

The available options for this parameter are:

1

Standard display is Premier

Premier tournaments are considered especially prestigious amongst the community.
  • 1v1:
    • Tournaments have at least a prize pool of $15,000, are organized by a well-established franchise in SC2 and meet at least 3 out of the following 5 criteria:
      • A maximum of 25% of the participating players are invited or >16 players participate in the tournament.
      • The tournament has a minimum prize pool of $25,000.
      • The tournament is an official EPT (in past years WCS) event (including GSL and Global events).
      • At least the Round of 16 and onwards are played offline.
      • From the participants of the tournament at least
        • 80% or
        • 50% and the tournament has at least 16 participants or
        • 25% and the tournament has at least 32 participants or
        • 20% and the tournament has at least 64 participants
are top players.1

1 For this criteria a player is considered a top player, if (assuming they would try they would) consistently qualify (or closely not qualify) to GSL Group Stage 1. Edge cases should be discussed in the #starcraft2 channel on the LP discord.

  • Team:
    • Tournaments have at least a prize pool of $25,000, are organized by a well-established franchise in SC2 and meet at least 3 out of the following 4 criteria:
      • A maximum of 25% of the participating teams are invited or at least 8 teams participate in the tournament.
      • The tournament has a minimum prize pool of $40,000.
      • At least the Round of 4 and onwards are played offline.
      • From the participants of the tournament at least
        • 80% or
        • 50% and the tournament has at least 16 participants or
        • 25% and the tournament has at least 32 participants or
        • 20% and the tournament has at least 64 participants
are top teams.2

2 A team is considered a top team, if at least half of its participating players are top players.

2

Standard display is Major

Major tournaments are mostly one-time events which take place online or are WCS/EPT Regional events.
  • 1v1:
    • Tournaments have at least a prize pool of $8,000 or are official EPT regional main (in past years also WCS Challenger) events or meet all of the following criteria:
      • The tournament has a minimum prize pool of $4,000 if it is an offline1 event, respectively $5,000 if it is an online event.
      • Minimum amount of participants:
        • 8 if at least 50% are qualified (without regional separation)
        • 12 if no qualifier or less than 50% qualified (without regional separation)
        • 24 if there is regional separation in the tournament seeding
  • Team:
    • Tournaments have at least a prize pool of $12,000 or meet all of the following criteria:
      • The tournament has a minimum prize pool of $7,000 if it is an offline1 event, respectively $8,000 if it is an online event.
      • Minimum amount of participants:
        • 4 if at least 50% are qualified
        • 8 if no qualifier or less than 50% qualified
        • 12 if there is regional separation in the tournament seeding
3

Standard display is Minor

Minor tournaments offer a smaller prize pool and less prestige than Major Tournaments but still draw a high level of competition.
  • 1v1:
    • Tournaments have a prize pool of at least $100.
  • Team:
    • Tournaments have a prize pool of at least $200.
4

Standard display is Basic

Basic tournaments offer a very small prize pool and little to no prestige.
  • 1v1:
    • Tournaments have a less than $100 prize pool.
  • Team:
    • Tournaments have a less than $200 prize pool.
Event-Type Tier

Each of the above Main Tier can (but not must) be enhanced by "specifying tiers" according to the recurrency of the event or to its typology.

This addition does not change the Main Tier of the event but just specifies its characteristic(s).

This is done by adding to the aforementioned compiled (still filled in just with numbers from 1 to 4) parameter:

|liquipediatier=

the additional

|tiertype=

that can be defined as follows:

Monthly
  • Use "monthly" if the tournament is played with a monthly recurrency.
Biweekly
  • Use "biweekly" if the tournament is played once every two weeks.
Weekly
  • Use "weekly" if the tournament is played once a week.
Daily
  • Use "daily" if the tournament is played more than once a week.
Qualifier
  • Use "qualifier" if the tournament is a qualifier to an event. (The Main Tier is, in this case, defined by the Main Event's proper Tier)
    • eg. for a Qualifier to a Tier 1 event the parameters will be |liquipediatier=1|tiertype=qualifier independently from the (possible) prize pool awarded in the qualifier itself.
Show Match
  • Use "show match" if the tournament is a show match.
Archon Mode
  • Use "archon mode" if the tournament is an Archon event.
2v2
  • Use "2v2" if the tournament is a 2v2 event.
3v3
  • Use "3v3" if the tournament is a 3v3 event.
4v4
  • Use "4v4" if the tournament is a 4v4 event.
1v2
  • Use "1v2" if the tournament is a 1v2 event.
FFA
  • Use "ffa" if the tournament is an FFA event.
Charity
  • Use "charity" if the tournament is an event centered / entirely devoted to Charity causes.
Special Events / Doubts

For any "weird" or special event or any borderline case, our Discord server is the right place where to ask for help.

Please note that, in the case of controversies, any final decision on Tier's choice is ultimately up to the discretion of the Liquipedia Administrators.

Maps[edit]

We try to accumulate as much information about maps as possible as long as they were used in a tier 1 or tier 2 tournament or being part of the 1v1 ladder map pool. (Exceptions can be made for maps used in matches events tracked with map data in the LiquipediaDB or at administrator discretion.)

Map pages usually include notable features, but also stuff like wall-ins for Terran and Protoss or Sim-City for Zerg.

Mapmakers[edit]

Mapmakers may receive their individual pages, as long as they surpass a certain threshold of notability. If your chosen mapmaker has at least created 3 notable1 1v1 maps (maps that received the "TL.net map of the year" award are counted twice), then they are likely notable to warrant a page on this wiki.

1A map is considered notable if it was part of an official 1v1 ladder map pool or if it was part of a map pool of a 1v1 Premier event.
Please refer to Liquipedia:MapMaker Notability for checking MapMaker notability.

Tournament administrators[edit]

Tournament administrators may receive their individual pages, as long as they surpass a certain threshold of notability.
Tournament administrators are considered notable if they were part of the admin team of at least 10 Tier 1 (Premier) or Tier 2 (Major) tournaments.
For notable tournament administrators page creation is considered up on request by the person in question or by suggestion of contributors with editor (or higher) rights.

Notability is checked via the Notability checker for tournament administrators.

ID/(Page-)Name changes[edit]

Name/ID changes require quite a bit of work (adjusting the page, moving it and purging all pages linking to it). Due to that they are only applicable if

  • the person/team is still active
  • the new name/id is intended to be used permanently or at least over the span of 12 months
  • the new name/id is not just adding a sponsor or team (in the case of persons)


Note that for person pages new ids can be added to the "Alternate IDs" (|ids) field at editor descretion.

Strategy[edit]

See the strategy article policy.

User pages[edit]

Completely optional, but make your userpage a good indication of who you are!

See also[edit]