Competitions made easy. Results everyone trusts.
Judging software to collect entries, record every handoff, score on any device, and publish results you can explain.
Run your first competition free. The demo opens without an account.
- Collect entries
- Assign judges
- Score on any device
- Judge anonymously
- Track every handoff
- Publish results
Built for competitions like yours
If people submit entries and a panel scores them, Continuous Cup fits. Choose the closest example.
Homebrew, food & tasting
Anonymized flights, physical-sample custody, style divisions, and published standings.
Awards & creative contests
Calls for entries, shortlist rounds, and winners you can stand behind.
Pitch & science fairs
Student-safe rubric judging with panel checks a parent can question.
Same-day events
Walk-up check-in, QR custody, and live results before the room empties.
Also runs scored events: knockout brackets and Swiss pairings, timed races and swim meets, and season leagues share the same live scoreboard. See event scoring.
Four steps from entries to results
Collect entries, let judges score, check the panel, and publish the final ranking.
Collect entries
Open a public entry page with your own fields, divisions, and caps, or check entries in at the door on competition day. Entry fees, if you charge them, go straight to your own Stripe account.
Judges score on their own devices
Judges work through your rubric on their phone, tablet, or laptop, and assignments are balanced so the panel stays comparable. Run the competition with anonymized judging and every entry becomes an anonymous code; judges never see the name behind it.
Fairness checks run on the panel
Judges share overlapping entries, so their scales can be compared. The panel report flags drift, disagreement, and unusually harsh or generous scoring before you publish anything.
Publish results with receipts
Standings go live on a shareable public page. Completed walk-up events add a transparency section showing how the judges scored, and every competition can export a defensibility report.
Results you can defend
When a result is close, someone asks how it was decided. Continuous Cup answers with receipts: who scored what, how scores were combined, and why the panel can be trusted.
- Judge flags before you publish. Leniency, drift, low agreement with the panel, and ceiling-heavy scoring are flagged per judge, with a panel-agreement score.
- Connected panels. Assignments overlap so every pair of judges shares scored entries; the overlap report literally checks that the panel is connected.
- Scoring methods you choose. Publish raw scores, or pick robust normalization that re-centers each judge against the panel so one harsh or generous judge cannot swing the standings.
- Frozen at completion. Finished competitions keep a frozen snapshot of the analysis, so the report you defend is the report you published.
See a sample defensibility report or open the sample competition and scroll to "How the judges scored."
Built for competition day
Physical entries, walk-up registration, and a hall full of people: the on-site workflow is part of the product, not an afterthought.
- Walk-up check-in. Register entries at the door with divisions and instant anonymous codes; new entries fan out to every active judge.
- QR chain of custody. Each sample gets a QR label; scans at drop-off, staging, and the judging table are logged, and the name-to-code mapping never leaves the system.
- Live progress and leaderboard. Watch coverage per judge and division while spectators follow a live public leaderboard.
Everything, grouped by the job it does
Collect
- Public entry pages with custom fields
- Divisions, caps, and deadlines
- Walk-up intake on the day
- Entry fees to your own Stripe account
Judge
- Weighted rubrics on any device
- Balanced, overlapping assignments
- Anonymized judging with automatic anonymous codes
- Multiple rounds with top-N advancement
- Judge recruitment applications
Run live
- QR chain of custody
- Live judging coverage per judge
- Live public leaderboard
- Awards and best-in picks
Explain the result
- Scoring methods from raw to a measurement model
- Judge-bias and drift flags
- Panel-agreement checks
- Public transparency section
- Defensibility report and exports
Start free
A generous free tier covers smaller competitions, and paid pricing is based on features and scale. Entry fees you charge go straight to your own Stripe account; the platform never holds your funds.
Security and stewardship
- Accounts. Verified-email accounts with secure, same-origin sessions and Google sign-in.
- Access. Role-based permissions separate organizers, judges, entrants, and staff; in anonymized competitions judges only ever see anonymous codes.
- Payments. Handled by Stripe. Entry fees settle to the organizer's own Stripe account; the platform never holds funds.
- Audit trails. QR custody scans, disqualification decisions, and completed-competition analysis snapshots are all recorded and kept.
Frequently asked questions
Do judges need to install anything?
No. Judges score in the browser on their own phone, tablet, or laptop.
How does anonymized judging work?
Anonymized judging, often called blind judging, is a choice you make per competition. Run it anonymized and every entry gets an anonymous code when it is submitted or checked in: judges see the code and your rubric, never the entrant's name, and the mapping between codes and names stays with the organizer.
What happens if one judge scores much harder than the others?
You pick the scoring method per competition: raw averages, robust normalization that re-centers each judge against the panel, rank-based scoring, or a measurement model. Whichever you pick, the judge report flags unusual leniency, drift, and disagreement before you publish.
Can spectators follow the results live?
Yes. Public competitions get a shareable results page with live standings while the event runs, and completed walk-up events add a transparency section showing how the judges scored.
Can the audience vote as well as the judges?
Yes. Public voting can run alongside judged scoring with upvote, star, ranked-choice, or range ballots, tallied separately or blended with the judges' scores at a weight you choose.
What does Continuous Cup cost?
A generous free tier covers smaller competitions, and paid pricing is based on features and scale, with packages that fit anything from a single event to a large organization; see the pricing page for current plans.
Run a competition people take seriously
Set up your event, invite the panel, and publish results everyone can trust.