Judge hackathon projects

An organizer has asked you to judge their hackathon on Eventship. You read the projects you were given, rank your favorites, and the organizer uses every judge's ranking to choose the winners. You do not need to sign in or install anything.

Your judging link

• Your link is in your email. It comes from the organizer's event and opens your judging page in the browser
• It is private. Anyone with the link can judge as you, so do not forward it
• You may get two emails. If the organizer added you before judging started, the first email opens a page that says when judging opens. A second email arrives when it opens, with your projects and when judging closes. If no project is left for you to judge, because they are all your own team's or were left out, there is no second email

If your link says it does not work, the organizer may have removed you, or the event may have been cancelled. Ask the organizer.

If you are signed in to Eventship with the email the organizer used, and that email is verified, the event page also shows You are judging this event, with a button that opens your judging page.

Read your projects

1. Open your link. Your page lists Your projects and when judging closes. If the organizer wrote Judging criteria, they are at the top: they say what to look for
2. Click a project to read it: its title, its team and members, the description, links, what it was built with, and images
3. Use Next project and Previous to go through them. Each project you open is marked Read

You are never given your own team's project. Every judge reads about the same number of projects, so you may not see every project at the event.

You do not have to open every project before ranking. If you saw a team present, you can rank their project.

Rank your projects

1. Click Rank your top 3. If the organizer asked for fewer places, or you were given fewer than 3 projects, the button says Rank your top 2 or Pick your winner
2. Give each place, such as 1st, 2nd and 3rd, to a project. Each place goes to one project. Giving a place to another project moves it there
3. Under Pick one for each category, choose one project for each category the organizer added, such as Best design, or leave it at No pick
4. Click Submit ranking

Nothing is saved until you submit. If the organizer asked for fewer places, or you were given fewer than 3 projects, you see only 1st, or 1st and 2nd.

Change your ranking

Until judging closes, open your link and click Change ranking. Submitting again replaces your earlier ranking.

After judging closes, your link still opens and shows the ranking you submitted. It can no longer be changed.

What happens next

The organizer sees the points from every judge's ranking and the picks for each category. 1st place is worth 3 points, 2nd is worth 2 and 3rd is worth 1. The organizer chooses the winners and publishes them on the event page.

Your name is not shown on the event page, and teams do not see your ranking.