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The Category Judging Process
The Integrity of the competition is of paramount importance to us and strict measures have been put in place to
protect the integrity and security of the competition. A series of checks are performed by the system each time a judge requests an image.
These checks include ;
- Blind Judging All images are judged blind. This means that no names, locations or identifying elements are shown during the judging process.
Judges do not know who submitted the image they are judging.
- Geographic Exclusions The system prevents judges from judging any images submitted from their country or region.
- Relationship Crossmatching Prior to judging relationship checks are made to ensure judges can not judge images from a personal or
proffesional relationship.
- Randomisation After all of the checks have been performed the system has a series of images that the judge can score. From this
group, an image is selected at random and then presented for judging.
This randomisation ensures that no 2 judges will ever score the same images in the same order.
- Judges in the competition Judges are permitted to enter the competition. Due to the strict control the system has over who can
judge the images, the system eliminates the possibility that a judge could score their own submittions.
- Final Round Judging The judging of the final round is conducted by a selection of judges that can not enter the competition.
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