Adding Missing Tournaments

Sometimes you browse TLPD, looking for a specific tournament and find it isn't there. Most times this happens to people and they leave, and if I'm lucky, they leave a message in the TLPD feedback thread. If I'm not lucky, they never notify us and we never notice. No more! Now if you find a missing tournament, you can ensure it gets added. Here's how, in a few easy steps.

First thing first, make 100% sure it isn't in TLPD already and meets our notability guidelines. Search variations of the name. e.g. for GSL try, GOM Global Starleague, GSL, Code A, etc, to make sure it isn't already in there with a different name. Make sure you are also looking in the appropriate database (e.g. you won't find the current GSL in the WoL Korea TLPD, you'll find it in the HotS Global TLPD.

Our notability guidelines are simple, if in the Ro8 or further there aren't 4 or more players who already exist in TLPD, it isn't notable. This means that your cousins' bronze league tournament doesn't count, no matter how large the prize pool. This is after all a Progaming Database.

Open a sandbox page in Liquipedia. To do this, open Liquipedia and Log In.



Then click your username in the right corner.



This will bring you to your userpage, at the end of the URL add /TLPD.

This will bring you to "page does not exist" section. (Unless you already have something there, in which case you may want to make it /TLPD1 or /TLPD2) .



Click "edit this page" to create a new page.

Then, title the page whatever the tournament is (e.g. GSL 18293 Code A 2014). If it's a show match, or a team league please mark it as so. E.G IPTL (IPL Team League, 2012).

Compile the results of the tournament. Remember, check notability for each round, if in the Ro64 more than 50% of the players aren't in TLPD, start with the Ro32, unless more than 50% of the players aren't already in TLPD, in which case skip to the next round, etc.

Write the results as follows. This is because when we input data in TLPD this is the order we do it in.
Winner > Loser : Map

Make sure that the player names match how they are represented on TLPD and that the Map name is the same as the matching TLPD entry. There are multiple versions of maps, make sure to get it right. Terminus LE is not the same as Terminus RE, GSL Xel'naga differs from Blizzard's version, etc. Also remember, there are players with the same name, so make sure when you say HerO, you mean HerO not herO, nor by.hero. Order the games in the order played. For example, for a Bo3:



For all the sets. Remember, order matters as it affects ELO. So you'd have something like this:



And include the games in the order played. If a player/map doesn't already exist on TLPD make note of it (preferably at the beginning of the cup in question, before the games) and include the relevant info to be added.

For maps, the relevant info is:


Be as complete as possible, although if you can't fill everything in, that is ok too, just do as much as you can.

If you do not know the order in which games were resolved in a BoX, order it so that it's evenly split W, L, W for the winner, and put order unknown at the beginning of the series For example:



If you want to make sure you don't overlap with what someone is doing, check the Worklist. If you are working on something, add it here, and cross it off when you have submitted it.

If you want to be especially thorough and earn our undying gratitude, include links to the vods (either by section or by game), and links to the LR threads.

Once you are done with preparing the results, PM me the link, and I will ensure it gets added as soon as possible.

Fixing Errors, Adding Data

"But GMarshal!" I hear people complain, "I can't find any missing tournaments! Surely there is more I can do?" There is! Here are a few things:

Player Profiles

Many are old, or out of date, it would be ideal if I had a team of people to update them. I don't. Poke around the player's TLPD and see what is missing, has someone made a cool highlight video? Send it to me. Is their picture out of date? Upload one in 90x90 dimensions and send it to me. Its best if you do a batch at a time, rather than sending me single pictures, but I'll take whatever I'm sent.

Standardization

Do tournaments of the same category have wildly different names? Is GSL called GOM Starleague in one place GOM Global Starleague for Code S and then GSL for Code A? Correct this, gather up a list of corrections and send it my way.

Edit Liquipedia

Do it, Liquipedia is TLPD's go to for a lot of information, and there's a ton of work to be done there. Any edits made towards Liquipedia help TLPD get better as well. Focus on making sure tournament results are updated and player pages have all the relevant info we need. Head over to #liquipedia on IRC or the Liquipedia Feedback Thread for pointers.