Because the judge never sees it.
You attach your work to your entry — either a piece from your existing portfolio, or something new made for this competition.
Your entry is given an anonymous token. Your name, account and history stay behind, in a part of the system judges never query.
Judges see only the work and the published criteria. Identity is reattached only after scores are locked and results publish.
Each competition page shows the brief, entry fee, and — where published — the scoring rubric, before you register.
Registration is free. A small entry fee applies only when you enter a specific competition, shown upfront.
Pick an existing portfolio piece or upload new work — this becomes both your portfolio entry and your competition submission.
Each judge scores each criterion independently. A submitted score can never be edited, by the judge or by us.
Once every judge has scored, results are published for that competition and identities are reattached.
Verified digital certificates and, where applicable, prizes are issued after results are published.
Some of these are live today. Others are on our build roadmap — we're listing both, so you can see exactly where things stand.
A judge's score, once submitted, cannot be edited — by the judge or by us. Enforced at the database level.
Every entry is assigned a random token before judging opens. Judges work from the token, never the entrant record.
Name and account details are removed from an entry before it's ever rendered on a judge's screen.
A judge who recognises an entry will be able to declare a conflict; their score is then excluded and the average recalculated.
Every state change — open, close, score, publish — will be written to an immutable log with actor and timestamp.
We plan to publish how much judges agreed on each competition, so low agreement is visible rather than hidden.
Every competition is scored against criteria set before judging opens.
Rubric will be published once judging opens for this competition.
Rubric will be published once judging opens for this competition.