How to: Understanding our Scoring Model

EDIT: NOTE THAT FROM 2026 WE WILL BE REVERTING TO 1st (5pts), 2nd (4pts) & 3rd (3pts) place. Judges can also give Commended status, but these get no points. We will not operate a league table, but will have category winners each quarter.

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Firstly, the judge scores each image on a scale of 1 – 20. These scores are added to the score sheet as shown.

Member	Score
Person #1	18
Person #1	15
Person #2	14
Person #2	16
Person #3	13
Person #3	17
Person #4	17
Person #4	19
Person #5	16
Person #5	0
Person #6	11
Person #6	9
Person #7	18
Person #7	14
Person #8	15
Person #8	15
Person #9	16
Person #9	18

We then work out which score is the highest, second highest etc, in this case, 19, 18 & 17.

1st	19
2nd	18
3rd	17
	16
	15
	14
	13
	11
	9

We then see who has the points that correspond with the top three scores. It might mean we have multiple first, second and third places. If we had people with 17 points or over, who did not get third, second or first place, they would be commended.

1st	2nd	3rd	Commended
Person #4	Person #1	Person #3
	Person #7	Person #4
	Person #9

Those 1sts, 2nds and 3rds are then awarded points. A first place gets 5 points, a second place gets 4 and a third place gets 3. Commended gets 1.

Person #1	4
Person #2	0
Person #3	3
Person #4	8
Person #5	0
Person #6	0
Person #7	4
Person #8	0
Person #9	4

We also have an image of the night, which is chosen by members and does not score points.

It’s complicated, but it works!