[LP] The R&S Revolution

June 30th, 2011 16:47 GMT

taking a week off of Starcraft II. You spend some beautiful time offline, with your girl or boyfriend in a house in the mountains, practising your back-flip hatchet attack. You come back relaxed and rested and quickly catch up with what happened in the ESPORTS-cosmos throughout the week. Quickly? Hardly! First, remember all the leagues going on. Then look for them. If you are lucky, there will be a R&S thread on teamliquid. If you are even more lucky, it's being updated in time. Sometimes you have to dig through Live Report threads (and hope that the thread creator did his job). Sometimes you have to visit other, badly formatted pages. It's a hassle, but a thing we have to go through.

It has been one of Liquipedia's goals to provide clean, easy to read and instantly updated results for all the major leagues. As (Wiki)

Columbus 2011 has shown, we are almost there. However, we are taking it one step further.

A page has been started that holds the tournament results for two weeks: The one which has just passed and the one going on at the moment. Old pages will be preserved and be yours to read again, hopefully for years to come. If you want to know what's going on, Liquipedia will have your one stop resource:

Recent Tournament Results

Why?

The idea behind the page is quite simple. With so many tournaments and an equal number of champions, the demand for tournament result sources has been greater than ever. Throughout the last months we've seen [R&S] Results and Standings topics and well-updated Live Report threads, we've seen shows like SC Center and State of the Game taking us through recent and relevant results and Mikilatov's tournament round-ups denominate the top-dog of the week(s).

All of these have done excellent and commendable work, yet, all three methods have their downsides. The source is either dependent on a single person, decentralised, in a non-optimal format, or take an immense load of work for a single person to undertake. Using the wiki mentality where Everyone Can Contribute we plan to address these qualms.

You can easily find your way through major tournaments, such as NASL, GSL, and Dreamhack, along with several weekly cups.

With a central hub that everyone can edit as the tournaments are happening we think this will be a great success. Amazing displays of these community-driven powers were already visible during (Wiki)

MLG Columbus, (Wiki)

ShoutCraft Invitational, and (Wiki)

Dreamhack Summer. With this new format, it should be much easier for every starcraft-loving nerd to hop on board.

Each tournament has its results nicely formatted.

How can I help?

"Everyone can contribute". Sure. But you might not be sure how. Or whether it's difficult. Or whether it requires some special set of skills or knowledge. Or whether it will take up copious amounts of time.
For these people, our recently added staff member, Noam, put together a short and handy tutorial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKgIflUHTr0

Since he is new to staff, we have asked Noam a few questions about himself and about the project.

LP: So, you're new to Liquipedia staff. Introduce yourself!
Hello, my name is Noam and I am from Israel. I first got to TL at around 2009 when someone linked me to a stream of Korean Brood War, then there were some TSLs to follow and I just lurked around until StarCraft II came out and then I started actually posting. Then I started doing some casting of it in Hebrew, mostly of our Israeli pro players (yes we got pro players, (Wiki)

Osho hwaiting!), and with the help of Pholon started adding some content about the (Wiki)

Israeli Scene. From there it was a short step to adding content and fixing articles all over the place, but mostly Tournaments. I love Tournaments, and the LP staff noticed it and invited me to become staff.

LP: Excellent. Something rather big has been started recently by some of the LP staff, yourself among them. Care to elaborate?
As you just read, I love Tournaments. I can't get enough of them and I know you can't either. But it's really hard to follow them because there are so many great tournaments. LP has always been the place to be to find information regarding SC2, and it has a lot of information about tournaments. But information must be organized properly so it is easy to find and understand. This is where the Recent Results page comes in. It will help everyone that follows the professional SC2 scene to remain updated without working too hard, sifting through many threads and websites. I don't know if you guys noticed, but there are 4 totally separate, equally amazing, ways to find information about tournaments.

LP: Go on...
First you have a LR thread which requires one diligent person to update its OP. Second you have TLPD, which eventually has a great summary of results and statistics, but it relies on a short list of amazing people to keep it updated. Third is Mikilatov's Tournament Round-up which is a great way to see who's hot, who's earning the big cash, and to find a lot of events you've never heard about. This also is one man's amazing work which comes every couple of weeks. And last, and certainly the most awesomest and best, is Liquipedia. LP holds so much information, and it can be either updated with results every other minute (read: (Wiki)

MLG Columbus), or it can be missing important information (see (Wiki)

Tournaments Without a Page). The beauty of Liquipedia is that it's all about us, anyone can assist, anyone can help.

LP: So what's the goal of this new page?
This is where the (Wiki)

Recent Tournament Results page comes in. It cannot replace those 4 amazing entities I mentioned, as they each have a place and a purpose, but it can give us one, concise, constantly updated, beautifully formatted, page to get all the recent results. But it can only be that page with the help of the community, and helping simply means adding in the results of the tournament you are most likely watching on stream right now while reading this article. It takes 20 seconds to add in a result, and anyone can do it, and everyone should do it.

So what are you waiting for? (Wiki)

Recent Tournament Results is yours to make it great!

- Liquipedia staff [image loading]