How much does GamesTally Judge cost?
USD 5,000, paid once. There is no per-event fee, no per-judge fee and no annual licence.
If scoring rather than judging is your bigger problem, GamesTally Score at USD 4,000 is the one to buy first.
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Judging, voting and weighting
Not Every Segment Is Scored The Same Way.
An admin keys in the scores for one segment. The audience votes on the next. A judging panel scores the final. Judge handles all three in the same event, applies the weightings you set, and produces one result.
In one line
Competition Judging Software That Handles More Than Judges
GamesTally Judge is USD 5,000, paid once. There is no per-event fee, no per-judge fee and no annual licence. If the scoring itself is the bigger job, start with GamesTally Score instead, and add Judge when a panel enters the picture.
- Price
- USD 5,000, one-off. No per-event, per-judge or annual fee.
- Score inputs
- Admin entry, judging panel, audience voting. All three in one event.
- Judges
- Multiple, each on their own device, each with their own access.
- Criteria
- Multiple per segment, weighted individually.
- Weighting
- By segment and by criteria. Changeable on the day.
- Ties
- Handled by the rule you set before the event.
- Reveal
- Held until you call for it, on your branded screen.
- Recurring cost
- None.
A recognisable arrangement
Teams12
Judges5
Criteria6
People calculating1
That's 360 individual scores, collected on paper, typed into a spreadsheet by one person backstage, while the host fills time.
Judge 01
Judge 02
Judge 03
Judge 04
Judge 05
GamesTally
Judge
Judge
Final
results.
Averaged, weighted and tie-handled by the system, revealed on your cue.
Positioning
Don't Hide The Judging Backstage
Judging is usually sold as an administrative necessity. It can be part of the client's event experience instead. The moment where the room leans forward.
Instead of
Paper forms
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Waiting
Use
Digital judge access
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Automatic calculation
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Polished result reveal
Where judging shows up
- Talent competitions
- Team presentations
- Pitch challenges
- Dance competitions
- Staff performances
- School events
- Innovation challenges
- Best dressed contests
How it is scored
Three Ways To Score. One Result.
Most events do not run on a single scoring method. Judge lets each segment be scored the way that segment should be scored, then combines them on the weightings you decide.
Segment 01Station games
Admin keys in scores
50%
Segment 02Team performance
Audience votes by QR
20%
Segment 03Final pitch
Judges score on their devices
30%
One combined result
Weightings set by you, changeable on the day
Admin entry
Your team keys in results for segments that are already decided on the ground. Station games, physical challenges, anything measured rather than judged.
Audience voting
Guests scan a code, choose an entry and vote from their own phone. Voting can stand on its own, or count as part of a segment.
Judging panel
Judges score on their own devices against the criteria you set. Weighted, averaged and tie-handled as they submit.
Weightings
You Decide What Counts, And How Much.
Weightings sit above everything. A client can decide that the room matters a little, or that the panel matters most, or that the station games carry half the event. Set it before the day, change it on the day if the client asks.
- Weight by segment
- Weight by criteria within a segment
- Weight judges against audience
- Change the split without rebuilding the event
Judges against the room
Judge score70%
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Audience vote30%
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Final result
The split is yours to set. Some clients want the room to matter; some want it to matter a little.
Capability
What Judge Can Be Configured To Do
Inputs
- Admin entered scores
- Judging panels
- Audience voting
- Multiple segments in one event
- Judge-specific access
- Judge comments
Calculation
- Weighting by segment
- Weighting by criteria
- Percentage scoring
- Average and total scores
- Automatic calculations
- Tie handling
Reveal
- Controlled reveal
- Branded results screen
- Segment results or overall
- Results ready as the last score lands
Capabilities can be configured depending on your build.
How it is delivered
Judge is built around your event rather than handed over as a download. Segments, criteria, weightings and who scores what are set up to match how your night actually runs, then delivered on your branding. The timeline is quoted with the scope.
GamesTally Score is the flagship and the one most operators start with. Judge is for events where the judging is the event.
A worked example
One Dinner And Dance, Three Kinds Of Scoring
This is the part that is hard to picture from a feature list, so here it is with real numbers. An awards night with three scored segments, each judged a completely different way, resolving into one standing.
Segment one
Table games during dinner
Facilitators run short games between courses. An admin keys in the results as they come back. Scored out of one hundred.
Weight: 30%
Segment two
Best dressed table
The room votes on their own phones during the break. The table with the most votes sets the top of the scale and everyone else is measured against it.
Weight: 20%
Segment three
The performance
Three judges score against agreed criteria on their own devices. Their scores are averaged.
Weight: 50%
| Table | Games (30%) | Room vote (20%) | Judges (50%) | Final | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Table 2 | 88 | 210 votes, so 100 | 86 | 89.40 | First |
| Table 4 | 82 | 120 votes, so 57.1 | 91 | 81.53 | Second |
| Table 9 | 95 | 60 votes, so 28.6 | 74 | 71.21 | Third |
Read That Table Again
Table 9 won the games outright and finished last. Table 4 had the best performance of the night, scored highest with the judges, and still did not win. Table 2 won without topping a single segment.
That is not a flaw in the arithmetic. It is the weightings doing exactly what the client asked them to do, which is why they are worth setting deliberately rather than defaulting to equal thirds and finding out afterwards.
Now try it on a spreadsheet at eleven at night, with a room waiting and one judge's scores still missing. It is the most common place an awards night comes apart.
Change one number
If the client decides on the night that the room should matter more, and moves the vote from 20% to 40% taking it from the judges:
- Table 2 wins by more
- Table 4 drops further behind
- Nobody re-enters a single score
The scores are the scores. The weighting is a separate decision, and it stays a separate decision.
Event day
Running A Panel That Does Not Behave Itself
Judging goes wrong in the same handful of ways at every event. None of them are dramatic. All of them cost you twenty minutes in front of a room.
A judge has not finished
You cannot see that on paper until you collect the sheets, which is exactly when you have run out of time. A results view that shows a segment as incomplete tells you while the next act is still on, which is while it is still fixable.
One judge scores harder than the others
There is always one. Averaging across the panel softens it. Seeing each judge's spread before you announce anything lets you decide whether the gap between first and second is real, and whether it needs a quiet word.
The client changes the weighting mid-event
Usually because the room reacted more strongly than anyone expected. If the weighting is a setting rather than a formula copied down a column, that is a thirty second conversation instead of a rebuild.
A team disputes a score in front of everybody
The awkward part is never the score. It is not being able to show where it came from. An activity log recording what changed, who changed it and when turns an argument into a two minute answer.
The vote gets gamed
One table works out they can vote more than once. How the vote is opened, limited and closed can be configured to your event, and the running count can be held back from the room until you close it.
Results are ready before the host is
More common than the reverse, and just as awkward. Nothing reaches the screen until you release it, segment by segment or all at once.
Capabilities can be configured depending on your build.
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Common Questions About GamesTally Judge
How do you combine judge scores with audience voting?
You set the split. Seventy per cent judges and thirty per cent the room is a common one, but the number is yours.
Both feed the same result, so the panel and the audience can both count without one of them being decorative.
Can judges use their own devices?
Yes. Each judge gets their own access on their own phone, tablet or laptop.
No shared iPad being passed down a table, and no one judge quietly seeing what another judge scored.
How is weighted scoring calculated?
Weights can sit on a segment and on individual criteria within it. Presentation can be worth twice what timing is worth, and the final pitch can be worth twice the station games.
The calculation happens as judges submit, so there is no tabulation step between the last score and the result.
Can an admin key in scores for one part of the event?
Yes. Not every segment is judged. Station games and physical challenges are usually measured on the ground and typed in by your team.
Admin entry, judging panels and audience voting can all run in the same event and combine on the weightings you set.
How are ties handled?
By a rule you set before the event, so it is decided in a planning meeting rather than on stage.
Countback on a nominated criterion, a head-to-head result, or a declared joint placing. The point is that nobody is inventing an answer while six hundred people watch.
Can we control when results are revealed?
Yes. The result exists as soon as the last score lands, but nothing appears on the screen until you call for it.
Judging is usually treated as backstage admin. It works better as part of the show.
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You Already Know How To Run Your Events. Let's Build The Technology Around Them.
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