Managing a Contest's Judges

Open a contest and go to Judges. This page covers the Contest Judges (CJ) for that contest — the Contest Chief Judge (CCJ) is managed on the Helpers roster instead.

Only people who can manage judges for a contest can reach this page at all — everyone else gets a not-found page, same as trying to open a contest you have no access to.

Pending requests

Volunteers who have asked to judge this contest are listed here awaiting a decision. See Signing Up to Judge a Contest for how they get here.

• Approve seats them on the contest and emails them.
• We have enough closes the request and emails them that the position is already filled. They stay in the volunteer pool and can offer for other roles or contests.

Where the district's member directory flags a lapsed membership, less time as a member than the district's judge tenure requirement, or an education level below its Pathways requirement, you're asked for a written reason before you can approve. The reason is stored with the decision.

As a Contest Chief Judge you can decide Judge requests for your own contest. Approving a Contest Chief Judge request is the District Chief Judge's call alone.

Removing a judge

Remove next to a seated judge:

• Deletes their judge place on this contest.
• Cancels any outstanding invitation tied to it.
• Adjusts their contest access down to whatever their other roles on the contest still justify.

Club conflicts on District contests

On a District contest, a judge whose club also has a contestant in the contest is marked Shares a club with a contestant. The mark is worked out each time the page loads, so it also catches a contestant added after the judge was seated. It is a warning only and blocks nothing. A contestant with no club recorded never triggers it.