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.
• Decline closes the request and emails them.

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.