Help:Style guide/Tournaments

Tournaments are essential to the growth of Dota 2 as we witness Dota 2 at its best. Below is a style guide on how tournament articles should be styled.

Title
The title of the page should be the tournament's full name.
 * Good Example: Electronic Sports World Cup 2011
 * Bad Example: ESWC 11

Introduction
All tournament articles must contain an introduction which will introduce the reader to the tournament and its main highlights.

Tournament Infobox
All tournament articles should be accompanied by the Tournament infobox containing a single picture of the tournament logo and its basic information.

Participating Teams
A list of participating teams should be included, listing the nationality and team's full name in columns, while listing the nature of participation (qualified, invited) if possible.

Good Example: Bad Example:

Squads
All tournament articles should be accompanied by a list of players in another page titled "Tournament name" squads. Insert a hatnote to the page in this section.

Shoutcasters
A list of shoutcasters of the tournament with Template:Broadcaster in columns should be provided.

Hero statistics
Provide Hero statistics if available with Template:Hero Statistics.

League Tables
Use Template:League team for any sort of league tables.

Group Stages
Use wikitables for each group in a Group Stage.
 * If a team qualified from a group, use #ccffcc (Light Green) on the table.
 * If a team qualified into Relegation/Losers Bracket, use #cfc (Light Yellow) on the table.

Knockout Stages
For knockout stages, use any appropriate template from Category:Tournament bracket templates.

Matchboxes
Good Example:
 * Use Template:Matchbox for every single game played. (3 games for BO3 etc.)
 * List the date for every game played, do not list the time.
 * Use > and < to display the winners.
 * Every team should have its country flag listed beside it.
 * A Matchbox should display "Team" "Flag" "Result" "Flag" "Team"

Bad Example:

Prize Allocation
In prize allocation, use Template:Prize and only list of teams that has earn any amount of money from participating in the tournament.

Trivia
This section is for all additional or interesting information regarding the tournament that does not belong in any other section. Trivia should be detailed information that may be of interest to a reader, possibly something they would not immediately know.

For more information regarding this, consult the trivia guidelines.

Categorization
The article should end with Category:Tournaments