Liquipedia:Notability Guidelines

Sadly, not everything can or should 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. Additionally, we strive to have all pages meet a certain level of notability to current fans of the game or those wanting to research its history. As such, some pages will be rejected due to a lack of quality or relevance.

This wiki contains coverage of certain teams, players and scenes that do not actually meet our guidelines, yet we allow them because there is an active volunteer(s) that keeps those pages updated. Although that is made harder the more pages are created, such as the fact that lower ranked teams tend to not have social media where they announce changes, and so on. It also does not mean that we will allow you to create a page for your team just because you say you will keep it up to date. This means we have to prioritise: we try to keep our coverage of competitive Dota 2 as defined by the guidelines below.

Any pages that do not meet these guidelines will not be deleted, but will be moved to your userspace. Any pages existing prior to updated guidelines will not be applied retroactively.

If you have any questions regarding these guidelines, please join our Discord and leave a message in the #dota2 channel.

Please note that inclusion of pages in mainspace is ultimately up to the discretion of Liquipedia administrators. Therefore any page meeting the below-listed guidelines may still be moved to userspace, while other pages which may not meet them can still be granted a mainspace page.

Guidelines

Last update: April 21, 2024

Teams

See also: Team page tutorial

Teams may receive pages when they surpass a certain threshold of notability as defined below;

• Achievements:
  • Competed or qualified for The International, EPT or Tier 1 tournament
  • Tier 2 tournament;
    • Winner if the tournament has less than 8 teams
    • Grand Finalist if the tournament has 8 teams or more
  • Tier 3 tournament;
    • At least 6 completed tournaments
      • Champion in at least 3 of these tournaments
  • DPC tournament;
    • Competed or qualified for Major or Minor or Division I of Regional League
    • Competed 2 consecutive tours in Division II of Regional League

Note: Achievement criteria excludes Qualifiers, Monthly or Weekly tournaments, Showmatches nor nationality-based tournaments.

• Well-Established Esports Organization:
  • The organization is well known across multiple other esports titles and has achieved high placements in the most relevant tournaments of their games, such as Apex Legends Global Series (Apex Legends), CS Major Championships (Counter-Strike), M World Championship (Mobile Legends), Six Invitational (Rainbow Six Siege), VALORANT Champions Tour (VALORANT), Worlds (League of Legends), or Intel Extreme Masters (Counter-Strike, StarCraft II)
    
    
• Notable Players on Roster:
  • The team have a majority of players who have previously played in multiple Tier 1 tournaments
  • The team is set to compete in multiple upcoming Tier 1 tournaments
    
    
• Orgless Teams:
  • Orgless teams typically refers to random stack created to compete in a qualifier or tournament, the stack may have no intention of competing for a prolonged amount of time
  • Page creation for orgless teams may be delayed despite their notability
    • The reason for this is that we do not want to have many pages for teams who have joined an organization shortly after the creation of the page, therefore making it less usable, since the team name is permanently retired in most instances
    • For example, a page for a new orgless team that qualified for notable tournament may be delayed as in most instances they will be signed by an organization shortly
  • Exception may be made if the team have a majority of well-known players
    • Competed or qualified in at least 3 Tier 1 tournaments
    • Competed or qualified in at least 5 Tier 2 tournaments
    • Competed 2 consecutive tours in Division II of DPC Regional League
      

Players

See also: Player page tutorial

Players may receive pages when they surpass a certain threshold of notability as defined below;

• Achievements:
  • Competed or qualified for The International or EPT tournament
  • Tier 1 tournament: Top 50%
  • Tier 2 tournament;
    • Winners if the tournament has less than 8 teams
    • Grand Finalists if the tournament has 8 teams or more
  • Tier 3 tournament;
    • At least 6 completed tournaments
      • Champion in at least 3 of these tournaments
  • DPC tournaments;
    • Competed or qualified for Major or Minor
    • Competed in Division I of Regional League
    • Competed in 2 consecutive Division II tours, top 4 in either tour
    • Competed in 3 consecutive Division II tours, regardless of standing

Note: Achievement criteria excludes Qualifiers, Monthly or Weekly tournaments, Showmatches nor nationality-based tournaments and only apply if the player have participated in 50% of the games of their respective team. (may exclude certain Tier 1 tournaments such as The International, Dota Pro Circuit or ESL Pro Tour)

• Previous History in a Different Esports Title:
  • The player was a pro-player in the competitive scene of a different esports title where they have a page on the wiki of the game and have achieved good placements in the most relevant tournaments, such as Apex Legends Global Series (Apex Legends), CS Major Championships (Counter-Strike), M World Championship (Mobile Legends), Six Invitational (Rainbow Six Siege), VALORANT Champions Tour (VALORANT), Worlds (League of Legends), or Intel Extreme Masters (Counter-Strike, StarCraft II)
    
    
• Signed by a Highly Notable Team:
  • A player signed by a team that have previously played in multiple Tier 1 tournaments
  • A player signed by a team that is set to compete in multiple upcoming Tier 1 tournaments

Coaches and Analysts

Coaches, Assistant Coaches and Analysts may receive their individual pages when they surpass a certain threshold of notability as defined below;

• Included by Liquipedia in the team card of a team competing in EPT events, DPC Major or The International or
• During their time with the team, the team has competed in at least 8 Tier 1 main tournaments
  • The team has finished at least 4 of these tournaments inside the top 50%

Other Organization Members

Pages for other organization members such as Managers or Founders are always up to administrators' discretion, they will also be considered if the person has been playing, coaching or part of the broadcast talent in the competitive scene previously.

Broadcast Talent

Broadcast talent may receive their individual pages, as long as they surpass a certain threshold of notability. Check the bullet points below. If your chosen broadcast talent fits at least one of these, then they are likely notable to warrant a page on this wiki. Achievement criteria does not include guest role.

• If the broadcast talent have worked in 2 or more Dota Major Championships main events.
• If the broadcast talent have worked in 5 or more Tier 1 Tournaments.
• If the broadcast talent have worked in 8 or more Tier 2 Tournaments.

For a broadcaster or stream to be included on a tournament page; the broadcaster or stream has to be contracted or announced by the tournament organizer as official broadcast of the language. (If it is not available, it will be determined via tournament personnel or DotaTV.)

Note: Exception may apply if the broadcaster from any studio has secured streaming rights (the tournament has no official broadcast, typically a qualifier).

Tournaments

Tournament pages can be created if the event meets certain criteria.

See also: Tournament tutorial

Requirement

For a tournament to be covered properly the following details should be present:

• A DotaTV league ticket
• A prize pool of at least $500 USD
  • This accounts solely for prize money paid out directly in cash, for example via bank transfer or PayPal. Other payment methods such as cryptocurrencies, coupons, or hardware prizes do not add up to the $500 USD threshold. Exceptions may be made upon administrators' discretion and only if the event features notable teams.
  • Events without any prize pool which act as a qualifier or show matches may be added
• Basic tournament information
  • Tournament name
  • Tournament logo, as a high resolution transparent .png file or a vector file
    Note: Either one version suitable for both light and dark backgrounds, or a separate version for each
  • Tournament format
  • Start and end date of the tournament
  • Social media accounts
    • Tournament announcement on social media or news platforms
    • Tournament that have no social media and seemingly exist only on spreadsheets may not be covered
• A detailed rulebook
  • Detailed tournament format, including details such as tiebreakers etc.
  • Prize pool distribution
  • Any other relevant details regarding the tournament
• Detailed schedule
  • Brackets (and if applicable, seeding)
  • Matchups with the date, time, and time zone when they will take place
• Team details
  • Team name
  • Team logo
  • Team social media (if applicable)
  • Team rosters (including stand-in)
    • Nickname
    • Steam details, preferably Steam3ID (profile URL, SteamID32 or SteamID64 is acceptable)
    • Full name (as written on their identification papers)
    • Nationality
    • Details on which match(es) stand-in(s) have been used throughout the tournament
  • In case a team needs to be replaced this should also be documented, ideally with details on reasoning

Note: For DPC or EPT tournaments, or qualifier tournaments that are hosted on platforms such as Epulze, FACEIT, or Challengermode, certain details may not be required.

Any additional information is always welcome. All material previously listed should be kept up to date throughout the tournament.

For any tournament to be added after its conclusion, not all details are required, as long as it is possible to have coverage without any critical details missing such as results.

Limitation of Coverage

As some tournaments such as open qualifiers may feature an open sign-up process or a very large number of participants, the coverage in Liquipedia may not cover the entirety of the tournament, instead may only feature;

• Stages that are relevant for prize money
• Stages that feature notable participants

New Organizers

The following guidelines apply for all tournament organizers who had organized no prior event.

All tournaments may be denied live coverage unless they meet ONE of the following points:

• The tournament is part of DPC or EPT
• The tournament is held as an offline tournament
• The tournament is held in cooperation with another tournament organizer that have tournaments covered in Liquipedia
• The tournament is sponsored by notable companies who have announced their involvement in the tournament on their social media or other news sites
• The tournament organizer's key personnel is part of a previous organizer (due to startup, acquistion, merger, or spinoff) that have tournaments covered in Liquipedia
• The tournament organizer has previously organized tournaments and has paid out the prize pool

Event Removal

Liquipedia administrators reserve the right to remove any tournament with or without any explanations at any stage of an event.

Game Related Content

Any relevant game elements and content which are part of the officially released Dota 2 games by Valve may receive a page on the wiki. These elements include:

• Hero
• Item
• Neutral Item
• Creep
• Neutral Creep
• Patches
• In-game mechanics

User pages

Completely optional, but make your userpage a good indication of who you are! Feel free to be friendly or use some Userboxes to spruce things up.