User:Cookies and Creme/Tournament article guidelines

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Alongside Smasher articles, Tournament articles make up the core of SmashWiki's coverage of competitive play, providing information and results for tournaments that range from regionals to supermajors and the largest tournaments of all time. This page will serve as a guideline to what belongs and does not belong in these pages.

SmashWiki:Notability

Prior to the creation of a tournament article, the very first thing that needs to be considered is the tournament's notability. The wiki does not have an explicit requirement for what tournaments are considered "notable"; generally, any tournaments with several notable players in attendance (at least double digits) or a sizeable prize pool (at least triple digits) will be allowed on the wiki. tournaments where the vast majority of players are those that rarely make it out of pools are not allowed, though if the tournament is part of a notable series, those results can go into the tournament series page instead. In addition, collegiate tournaments are not considered notable on the wiki and are also not allowed. Conversely, online tournaments and arcadians are allowed on the wiki, provided that they have a large-enough entrants count or prize pool.

Required sections

The following sections are required upon creation of a tournament page. Articles created without these sections will be considered low-effort and marked for deletion.

Template:ArticleIcons

Article icons are required to depict what tournaments are held at the tournament and whether it is an online tournament.

Template:Infobox Tournament

This infobox is where most of the tournament's basic information is listed. Though not every field needs to be filled in, the following are required upon the page's creation:

• Name: The same name as the title of the article, minus the Tournament: namespace.
• Date: Sometimes, the tournament reports the date the tournament begins relative to the editor's time zone. The date of the tournament must match the time zone of the tournament, so an Australian tournament that starts in the evening of March 24th in EST should have March 25th listed as the starting date.
• Venue, Address, and City: In the tournament of no venue or address being reported, do not make assumptions and only report what is known. Choosing the location to report depends on the editor, but generally, the tournament's state/province/prefecture is reported instead of the country, as the country is already represented by the flag.
• Attendance: Only entrants for Smash tournaments are reported. The number should follow exactly what the tournament reports, and not what a tournament organizer announces unless they explain the discrepancy. In addition, for Start.gg tournaments, do not report the number that is reported in the attendance tab, as there are often players who sign up for a tournament but doesn't sign up for any event. Rather, to get the most accurate value, editors will have to click on the attendance tab and manually select every Smash event in the filter.
• Winners: These sections can be left as "TBD" if an tournament has not concluded. Only main tournaments or singles tournaments of side games are to be reported.

If available, the following information should be included as well:

• Image: The tournament logo or tournament banner if a logo is not present.
• Entry fees: These should be separated by tournament and game.
• Pot size: These should be separated by tournament and game.
• Organizer and other staff members

Introduction

The introduction should explain what games are present at the tournament, what the tournament size (regional/superregional/major/supermajor) for each tournament is, and the tournament's date and location. Other information, such as whether the tournament is part of a larger tournament or series, may also be reported. The tournament size should not be reported until after pools have concluded, in order to account for disqualifications that may lower it.

Results

The games should be ordered by their release date, with singles being reported before doubles, with modded games going at the end. Side tournaments are reported after all the main results. Entrants and every bracket outside of pools should also be reported above the results table. tournaments with free entry fees should have their entrants count corrected to account for disqualifications, as free tournaments often have large number of disqualifications. Likewise, any tournaments with an exceptional number of disqualifications, regardless of the price of the entry fee, should have their original entrants count reported, but a notice that explains the number of disqualifications and the final entrants count afterwards.

Ideally, tournament articles should have the complete results documented, as the online source for the tournament's results may not always be available in the future if a reader wants to see more than what SmashWiki documents (as the many Brawl tournaments whose results were permanently lost when AllisBrawl went down can attest to). However, SmashWiki does not expect any editor to extensively document results beyond a high enough cutoff, given the increasingly high amount of effort it requires to write down results with each additional placing, which would become monumental with some of the biggest supermajors that have had thousands of entrants. As such, there are no hard rules to how many placements should be reported, but generally, any local level tournament should have at least the top 8 listed, a smaller regional should have at least the top 16 listed, a larger regional should have at least the top 32 listed, a superregional should have at least the top 48 listed, a major should have at least the top 64 listed, and a supermajor should have at least the top 96 listed. Any tournament with too few results reported for its level should be tagged with {{results}}. Conversely, if an editor does want to document especially deeply into a tournament's results or even the entire tournament, the only caveat is that they should stop automatically linking players who do not have an article and will likely not merit an article in the near future, so as to not fill wanted pages with players who should not have Smasher articles. Additionally, if a tournament's results table were to get excessively large, its complete results table should be placed on a subpage, while the main page has a table with results from the main bracket listed.

There is no explicit order to follow when reporting ties in results, but generally they should be ordered by the order given in the tournament's official results page, the order of the players in the bracket, or the order in which the players are eliminated. Changing the order after the fact is heavily discouraged.

When listing a flag next to a player, it should not be strictly based on their birth country nor where they have official citizenship, but rather their country of permanent residence at the time the tournament took place. For example, ZeRo is from Chile, but immigrated to the United States by the end of 2013, so all tournament results from before 2014 should have him listed with the Chilean flag, but all tournaments after that point should use the American flag for him in their results instead. In a more extreme example, Hungrybox was born in Argentina, but has resided in the United States for most of his life, including for his entire Smash career, and thus all of his results on the wiki should have him listed with the American flag rather than the Argentine flag, despite him not becoming an American citizen until 2017. Conversely, if a player is only living in another country on a short term temporary basis, such as on a visitor visa or for a short university stint, their flag should not be changed. In cases of long term dual-residencies, such as when a player is living in another country to attend higher education, the flags from both their countries of residence should be listed.

When reporting which characters a player used in a tournament, the only characters that should be listed are those that were used to win a game in a won set, so as to not mislead which characters were actually responsible for the player's placing. The only exception are to players who fail to win a single set, in which every character they used is reported. Additionally, characters used by high-placing players in early pool matches should generally be ignored, as the massive skill gaps that often occur in these matches mean top and even high level players will typically win these matches regardless of their effort, and so a character they may have sandbagged with in these matches does not truly reflect the characters that legitimately contributed to their final placing. The character order should depend on how frequently the character was used in bracket, and in case of the tie, the number of game wins a character received; if a tie still remains, the character order is up to the editor's preference. Finally, character heads should use the heads of their default skins, as players often switch between costumes during tournament, and reporting them all only serves to add bloat to the results table.

Full disqualifications are reported by placing a (DQ) next to the player's tag. Partial disqualifications are reported with an asterisk next to the player's placement, with the asterisk being explained after the results table. In the event of a Smasher using a joke tag or is playing under a different, temporary tag, their real tag should be reported, with their joke/temporary tag mentioned in a reference.

If available, the prize money for each placement should be reported as well. As SmashWiki's editors are primarily based in North America, editors can also choose to convert the prize money to United States Dollars and report it next to the region's native currency.

Categories

Every tournament article needs categories regarding its year, location, and size of every individual game. In light of the tournament's exact region being unknown, the tournament's country/continent can be used instead.

Additional sections

The following sections can be included depending on the size of the tournament or whether the information is available and relevant to the tournament.

Format

If a tournament uses a unified ruleset and the wiki reports it, the ruleset should be linked and no other table is necessary. Otherwise, the format should be reported in a style that matches the one written for the unified ruleset.

Tournament summary

For majors and supermajors, a tournament summary should be included to the tournaments page. This tournament summary should discuss the largest upsets of the tournament and notable breakout performances, runs, and underperformances. Tournament summaries should not be written as a real-time report or include every upset at an tournament; instead, they should explain why these tournaments are relevant or important to the bracket, such as whether it is part of a storyline or whether it marks an underperformance for a top player. Any other information regarding the tournament should be added to the tournament's trivia section, assuming it abides to SmashWiki:Trivia.

Smaller tournaments may also have tournament summaries assuming it does not amount to a couple of lines. If there is not enough to report, the information can be included in the introduction instead.

Controversies

Controversies should only be included if it directly affects the tournament, such as how the tournament is run. Controversies should not include drama that ultimately amount to nothing or have little impact on the tournament's reputation. In addition, only controversies directly related to the tournament should be included; any controversies which involves an attendee outside of the tournament belongs on their respective Smasher page.

Gallery

With permission from the owner(s) of the image(s), a gallery of the tournament may also be included.

Other guidelines to remember

• {{upcoming}} and {{ongoing}} should be added to tournaments depending on its status.
• Many events often use characters such as "#" or "|" in their event titles. As these characters conflict with wiki syntax, they are to be excluded in the title of the page and the infobox. However, users can choose to display the original title by using the {{title|} template, though this is not recommended as when users fill out a Smasher results table, they will likely copy that syntax and break the results table.
• The name of the tournament used on the wiki should match the name that appears on the tournament's logo or the name that is used on a tournament tier system. As such, any extraneous information in the title of the tournament page, such as information denoting the event's pot prize, should be removed when creating the page for the wiki. In addition, improper syntax, such as a missing space between punctuation (for example, Chad Saga:Fast Edition), can be corrected on the wiki; however, the original title must be a redirect, and if a mistake is big enough, it should be noted in the introduction of the tournament page.
• Though SmashWiki often follows what the rankings or a panelist group say, there are several cases where they categorize an event that the wiki believes is incorrect, often as a result of flaws with the rankings' algorithm or differences. As such, if a discrepancy exists, the tournament size reported should follow what SmashWiki determines it to be, while the discrepancy should be reported in the tournament summary, with an explanation as to why the discrepancy exists.
• When updating tournament results, there is no rule as to how many results can be updated at a time. However, for earlier brackets it is generally advised to only update the bracket when a round is finished, in order to keep recent changes reports to a minimum.