Within 24 hours of submissions closing, judges will be emailed a secured URL where the submissions will be viewed and judged “live.” This provides that designers will have their work judged anonymously and that judges will not be responsible for using a local install of WordPress. Each judge will be emailed a unique user name and password to access the judging blog.
Judges should use the judging outline and criteria as a foundation to their processes. Judges will submit an email to Scott with their final scores in strict accordance with the scoring schedule described below.
Scoring Schedule
Judges will receive a total of 15 points to distribute (in whole integers only, ie, you may not award “3.43″ points to a theme) to a minimum of four designs and a maximum of seven. The four designs receiving the most points will be considered the judge’s choices for first, second, and third places, and runner-up, respectively. If the four top designs receive equal points, then they must explicitly be labeled as first, second, and third, and runner-up.
For example, I have given 6 points to the design “Happyness,” 4 points to the design “Monkey Time,” 3 points to the design “Funky Town,” and 2 points to the design “BusyBee” for a total of 13 points, distributed as follows:
| Example scoring | ||
|---|---|---|
| Design name | Score | Ranking |
| Happyness | 6 points | 1st |
| Funky Town | 4 points | 2nd |
| Olde Monkey Tyme | 3 points | 3rd |
| BusyBee | 2 points | Runner-up |
| Total | 15 points | |
Points will first be tallied by Scott and then verified with a to-be-determined third-party non-participant. Judges may only be asked to rescore when their total points do not equal 15 or if choices for first, second, and third places, and runner-up are not explicit.
Individual, specific scoring by judges will not be disclosed by Scott or a third-party non-participant involved in verifying results. Judges may chose to disclose their own scorings at their discretion but only after results have been announced on Tuesday, August 7, 2007.
