Reference
Glossary
The words this guide and the panel use, in plain language.
- Active entrant
- The entrant currently on stage whom judges are scoring.
- Award
- A prize or title given from the results, such as a best-in-category title.
- Bundle
- A set number of votes sold together for one price.
- Compute
- Work out placements from the scores entered so far; you can compute again after a change.
- Contest
- A competition made of one or more rounds, with its own entrants, awards and results.
- Criterion
- One thing judges score, such as poise or answer, with a maximum and a weight.
- Deactivate
- Switch something off without deleting it; it can be switched back on.
- Deduction
- Points taken off an entrant's score, either by staff or from a deduction item set up for the round.
- Deduction item
- A named penalty a round can apply, with a set number of points.
- Disqualify
- Take an entrant out of voting or out of a round without deleting their record. In a round you give a reason, and you can apply it to the entrant's remaining rounds that have not been computed yet. A round already computed keeps its result.
- Entrant
- A person or team being scored in a contest.
- Event
- The occasion that groups one or more contests, with its own header for printed papers.
- External score
- A score that is entered by staff instead of coming from the judges' screens.
- Judge
- A person who scores entrants; judges use their own scoring screen and never sign in to this panel.
- Judge portal access
- The private link that lets a judge open their scoring screen.
- Live round
- A round that counts for real, as opposed to a rehearsal.
- Needs attention
- A dashboard list of things that are stuck or missing and need a person to act.
- Open round
- A round that is accepting scores.
- Panel coverage
- A check of which judges have scored which entrants so far.
- Payment request
- One attempt to collect payment for a vote order.
- Placement
- The rank an entrant ends up with after scores are computed.
- Poll
- A public vote where people pay to vote for entrants.
- Poll entrant
- An entrant who can receive votes in a poll.
- Re-check
- Ask the payment provider again whether a payment went through.
- Rehearsal
- Practice scores entered before the real event; they can be cleared afterwards.
- Release
- Make a round's results official so they can be shown on results pages; you can undo it.
- Resolve
- Work out who wins an award from the computed results.
- Results page
- A public page that shows released results for a contest.
- Reveal
- The moment results are shown to the audience from Stage Control.
- Role
- The set of things a signed-in user is allowed to do.
- Round
- One stage of a contest where judges score the entrants on the same criteria.
- Round source
- A previous round whose results feed entrants into a later round.
- Score adjustment
- A change to an entrant's total that is set up in advance for a round.
- Scorecard
- The set of scores one judge gives one entrant in one round.
- Scoresheet
- The page where scores are laid out; live scoresheet shows them as they arrive.
- Setting
- A named value that changes how the system behaves.
- Stage Control
- The screen used to run the show on stage, including who is on stage and when results are revealed.
- Tabulation sheet
- A printed table of every score and total used to check results.
- Tabulator
- A staff member who checks scores and prepares the official tabulation.
- Tie-break
- The rule, or the recorded decision, that settles two entrants with the same total.
- Tie-break rule
- A set-up instruction saying how a tie is settled automatically.
- Vote order
- One purchase of votes by a voter.