Liquipedia:Notability Guidelines/Tier Definitions

Purpose

This page defines the criteria that have to be met for an event to achieve a certain liquipediatier.

|liquipediatier=

The liquipedia tier is the main tier of a tournament.

This is achieved by adding

|liquipediatier=

into the infobox league of the event, followed by a number ranging from 1 to 5.

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

|liquipediatier=1 "S-Tier" Criteria

• Min Prize: $ TBD USD (~USD 15,000+, depending on what gets announced for the world champ series, whatever it is called)
• Well populated with notable participants.
• Organized by a well-established franchise.
• At least 4 of the following:
  • At least the Round of 16 and onwards are played offline.
  • A maximum of 25% of the participating players are invited.
  • More than (>) 16 participants.
  • Pays out at least top 16 players.
  • Excedes $ TBD USD. (~USD 25,000+, depending on what gets announced for the world champ series, whatever it is called)
  • Event is part of the World Championship Series (whatever it may be named at the time).

|liquipediatier=2 "A-Tier" Criteria

• Min Prize: $ TBD USD (~USD 5,000+, depending on what gets announced for the world champ series, whatever it is called)
• Pays out at least top 8 players.
• Well populated with notable participants.
• At least 4 of the following:
  • At least 16 total participants (qualifiers included) and is played purely offline.
  • At least 32 total participants (qualifiers included) and has an offline portion.
  • At least 64 total participants (qualifiers included).
  • Event is part of the World Championship Series (whatever it may be named at the time).
  • Pays out at least top 16 players.
  • Organized by a well-established franchise.

|liquipediatier=3 "B-Tier" Criteria

• Excedes $100 USD
• At least 2 of the following:
  • At least 16 participants.
  • At least 32 total participants (qualifiers included).
  • Excedes $250 USD.
  • Pays out at least top 8 players.
  • Has an offline portion.

|liquipediatier=4 "C-Tier" Criteria

• USD between > 50 and <= 100

|liquipediatier=5 "D-Tier" Criteria

• USD between 25 and <= 50 (i.e. the ones that only get on the wiki due to being "regularly occurring tournaments")

|liquipediatiertype=

Each of the above Main Tier can optionally be paired with a Tier Type 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 |liquipediatiertype=.

Supported values are:

• |liquipediatiertype=Monthly

For tournaments played with a monthly recurrency.

• |liquipediatiertype=Weekly

For tournaments played with a weekly recurrency.

• |liquipediatiertype=Showmatch

If the tournament is a show match.

• |liquipediatiertype=Qualifier

If the tournament is a qualifier to an event.

For Qualifiers the |liquipediatier= should match the liquipediatier of the event it qualifies to.

• |liquipediatiertype=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 or disputes about an event's tier or tier type, any final decision on is ultimately up to the discretion of the Liquipedia Administrators.