Liquipedia:Notability Guidelines

Please note that inclusion of pages in mainspace is 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 Overwatch history as a whole. Any pages that do not meet these guidelines will not be deleted, but will be moved to your user space.

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

Guidelines

Last update: October 17, 2025

When is a page deserved?

• All notability is determined by notability points, awarded for a team or person's achievements. Below is the break down of the maximum points each tier on this wiki gives in regards to points:

Notability from Liquipedia Tiers

Tier	Points for Winners	Description	Example Events
S-Tier	20000	The most prestigious global events of the year with the best teams and largest prize pools.	Overwatch League
A-Tier	10000	Top leagues from each region featuring the top teams the largest prize pools outside of global events.	Overwatch Contenders
B-Tier	700	Regional leagues, national events, and large Online events with top tier teams.	Open Division
C-Tier	300	3rd party leagues and tournaments and small LAN events.	Will English IVitational
D-Tier	100	Brand new tier for the lowest levels of national leagues. Random competitions and tournaments.	ZOTAC Cup
Monthly	50	Events that happen monthly.	MGA Community Overwatch Series
Weekly	25	Events that happen weekly.	Overwatch Collegiate Clash
Qualifiers Showmatch Misc	0	These tiers are not considered for notability points.	Overwatch League - 2019 All-Stars

• After 1 year the points earned (in the bank) will be worth 50% less.

How do notability points work?

• Each tier correlates with a specific amount of points (as seen above).
• You ONLY get that amount of points if you get first place, otherwise the amount of points will be scaled down.
  • Example: If you win a D-Tier event, you get 100 points, if you get second you get less than 100, third less than second and so on

How many points do I need to be considered "Notable"

• As a player
  • Notable - If you have 2000 points or more
  • Not Notable - If you have less than 2000 points
• As staff
  • Notable - If you have 2000 points or more and participated in more than 4 tournaments
    • Results earned as a coach/analyst cannot be combined with results earned as a manager
  • Not Notable - If you have less than 2000 points
• As a team
  • Notable - If the teams has more than 2000 points
  • Not Notable - If the teams has less than 2000 points

To check how many points you have, please use this tool: Notability Checker

Players

Who and what to add?

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 achieved notable results, see When is a page deserved?
• Previous history: If the player has a page on another wiki and has achieved 50% of the needed notability points
• Always at the wiki administrators discretion

To create a new player page, you can follow our Player Template.

Staff

• What are staff?
  • Staff are members of a team that are not players. Liquipedia recognizes the following staff: Coaches, Analysts, and Managers

Who and what to add?

• Staff follow the same notability guidelines as players: Notability range
• Results in at least 4 different tournaments
• The following rules additionally apply to Managers:
  • Manager may be included only on S-Tier, A-tier, & Blizzard-hosted B-tier tournaments
  • Results/Achievements earned as a manager cannot be combined with results/achievements earned as a coach/analyst for notability purposes
  • The reasoning for this can be read further in our Team Staff-Policy
• Always at the wiki administrators discretion

On-Air Talent

• What is on-air talent?
  • On-air talent are members of a league or tournaments broadcast team. Liquipedia recognizes the following talent: Hosts, Casters, Analysts, Observers, and Producers (taken on a case-by-case basis)
• An on-air talent may be eligible for a page if they satisfy any one of the following:
  • Previous history: If the talent has a page on another wiki and has achieved 50% of the needed notability points
  • Points: If the caster has accrued ten (10) or more points to documented tournaments. The value of each link can be found below.
    • S-Tier Tournaments are worth four (4) points.
    • A-Tier Tournaments are worth two (2) points.
    • B-Tier Tournaments are worth one (1) point.
    • C-Tier Tournaments, D-Tier Tournaments and Miscellaneous_Tournaments are worth half (1/2) a point.
    • Qualifier and Showmatches of any tier are worth fifty percent (50%) of their assigned tier.

To create a new caster page, you can follow our Player Template.

Teams

When to create

If the team fulfills one of the following:

• The team has notable results, see How many points do I need
• The team is a well-established esports organization with a page on another wiki and has achieved 50% of the needed notability points.
• Individual Player Performance does not count towards the teams notability.
• If the team is an official OWCS Partner team.
• If the team is an Academy or Female/Non-Binary team of an OWCS Partner team.
• Always at the wiki administrators discretion

When not to create

• A team with none, or minimal verifiable external sources (mostly inside/private/tournament sources are not sufficient).
  • Teams without a website or social media may still be added if they meet the notability criteria and can be sourced using publicly verifiable information.
• A new team, made of subjectively known players that do not have a page on Liquipedia (e.g. an Open Division team made of known players with no results and no Liquipedia pages)
• When the team is a "pug team," where different players come and play under a name for a tournament but do not join the team.

To create a new team page, you can follow our Team Template.

Leagues/Tournaments

Leagues and tournaments must have a minimum cash prize of US$200 in major regions (EU, KR, ME, NA), or US$100 elsewhere to be represented on Liquipedia (conversions can be checked here). Any others can be added under your personal user page for record keeping, but they will not be kept up to date by other Liquipedia users. Hardware, peripherals and other prizes of this type are not accepted as part of the cash prize.

Additionaly to the minimum cash prize all tournaments need the following details:

• Tournament Name
• Tournament Logo + Icon (see our File Standards Guide)
• Start and enddates for all stages
• Format information
• Teamnames of all participants
  • Teamlogos of all participants (optional)
• All ingamenames (battlenet names without the # identifier)
  • All roles and nationalities (optional)
• Link to the official stream (if applicable)
  • Names and nationalities of broadcast talent (see #On-Air Talent)
• Public bracket
• Public rulebook
• Public prizepool and prizepool split
• Dates and times for all covered matches
• Scores of all covered matches
  • Detailed match information (played maps, exact map scores, hero bans, casters) (optional)

Limitation of Coverage

• As most tournaments are prone to feature an open sign-up process that may lead to a very large number of participants, the coverage of a tournament will not always cover the entirety of an event, but rather all important parts of a tournament. Important parts of a tournament are:
  • Stages that are relevant for prize money
  • Stages that feature many notable participants
• This means that:
  • The first rounds/stages of online events with an open-signup process should almost always be skipped.
  • Teams, players and broadcast talent on non covered parts will not receive any notability points or results

Event Removal

Liquipedia admins reserve the right to remove any tournament without any explanations at any Stage of an event. Additionally, Liquipedia admins can deny the coverage of any tournament ahead of its start, should tournament organizers approach editors with the intent to get their event added to the wiki.

To create a new tournament page, you can follow our Tournament Template.

Maps

We try to accumulate as much information about maps as possible. Map pages usually include notable features like the following:

1. General in-game map information.
2. Release information.
3. Differences between the orginal map and the rework, if reworked/buffed.

Transfers

Transfers are entered on the Transfer Portal here. Below are the guidelines to follow for transfers:

• Only add entries when you have a reliable source for the transfer:
  • Note: Leak accounts are not reliable sources and should not be used.
  • Note: that forward-looking statements from sources using wordings such as 'will sign' can be speculative and should be dealt with accordingly.
• All transfers should be added. Regardless of how big or small the team is.
• Formatting for dates follows ISO 8601, i.e. YYYY-MM-DD
• All transfers should be added in the appropriate order following the date guidelines
• When adding a source use the correct reference-type to display the source;
  • {{TRef|url=}} : Use the full URL of the source, this can be twitter, facebook, the teams website or any other source.
  • {{TRef|type=inside source}} : Use this type when no written source is available but you heard it from a reliable source.
  • {{TRef|type=tournament source|url=<!--tournament page-->}} : The player appeard on a new team without any other source available.
    • In case of an inside source and a tournament source use the "Tournament Source" to reflect the first time the player participated with this team.
    • If the inside source happened before the next tournament started use "Inside Source".

All other transfers should be discussed on the Liquipedia Discord server or added to the transfer rumour portal

Transfer Rumours

This wiki has a transfer rumour portal for reporting speculative transfers. This brings some unique problems and differences from a regular transfer. Below are the guidelines that should be followed for transfer rumours:

• Only add entries when you have a refernce (or source) for the rumour:
  • If there is no reference or source, it should not be added.
• Follow the date guidelines
  • The date is when the reference was posted not the date of the transfer
  • Once entered the date should not change
• Confidence should be entered with proper capitalization
  • User adds how likely a transfer is to occur, this can be from looking at other transfers that have happened, discussions on the Discord server or internal sources
  • Once entered the confidence can change but the date should not change
• Those who are found to be breaking NDAs will have their edit access to this portal restricted.
• Those who are found to be abusing the portal will have their edit access restricted as well.

Wiki administrators will confirm or deny the rumours. All rumours are subject to administrators review and removal at any time without warning or reason

User pages

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