Because participants often don’t sleep as much as we’d like, they do poorly at presentations. To help remove that factor, we ask judges to walk around from 9am-10am and try the games individually.

Judges should start arriving around 9am. You should have the Code Evangelist talk to the judges as they arrive to explain the procedures. The CodeDay supplies kit includes a bunch of pens and judging sheets which you can give to the judges.

If you have a lot of participants, you can break judges up into multiple groups and start them at different locations. At least one judge needs to see each group.

If you have a lot of volunteers, you can also assign one to follow each judge group and help keep them moving.

The judging sheets also include space for notes and subjective (smiley-face) ratings for each team, to help speed up deliberation later.

Deliberation

Judges should be taken to a side room to discuss awards during presentations. Judges don't need to see the presentations, and this makes everything go much faster.

judges.pdf

judges.pdf

Awards

Judges need to give out awards for:

1x Best in Show (think “1st place”)

2x Best In Class, usually broken down into

• Best in Class - Game (think “2nd, in the game category”)
• Best in Class - App (think “2nd, in the app category”)
• You can technically give these out however you want. e.g. if there are a bunch of games, you could give out "Best in Class - Multiplayer Game" and "Best in Class - Singleplayer Game"

2x (ish) Special Prizes, for anything they want to recognize. Common examples of special prizes are:

• 0 to 60: for a team with no/little experience who tried their best and made something amazing!
• Spirit of CodeDay: for a team who used the theme really well, participated in a lot of workshops/activities, or otherwise showed large amounts of creativity at the event

<aside> 📌 Judges do NOT give out the “World Champion” awards — CodeDay HQ will give those out in an online ceremony.

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