Documents used to plan a competition and its responsibilities
Competition governanceOrganizations and organizers4 min

Separate the roles behind a professional competition

Assign competition work without giving each contributor control over publication, evaluation and billing.

A professional competition involves more than writing a brief. Someone must approve publication, moderate entries, organize the jury and manage the subscription. Decide who handles each responsibility before participants start sending work.

In Dexyd, use organization roles to separate that work. Your public publishing identity and internal acting account serve different purposes: visitors need to know who organizes the competition, while authorized managers need an accountable history.

Assign content and publication work

Give Editor access to contributors who prepare content. Editor does not have permission to publish a competition. An authorized Owner, Admin or Organizer should review the final brief, dates, deliverables and selection method before publishing.

Choose the organization identity in the form when the competition should use its eligible plan and quotas. A personal account subscription does not mean you selected the organization publication context.

Review annual offers, add-ons and professional-plan limits against the work you intend to run. Owner or Billing should manage the organization purchase rather than sharing payment access with the whole team.

Keep moderation separate from evaluation

Use moderation to check entries against participation and submission requirements. Pending, approved and rejected statuses describe that review; they do not constitute a jury score.

In Organizer, combine status, competition, category and search filters to find the work you need. Reset filters before concluding that a submission is missing. A new-submission notification can refer to pending work that the public count excludes.

Use Jury Manager or an authorized organizer to handle assignments. Jurors accept invitations and review the work assigned to them. Access to a jury workspace alone does not establish an accepted mission for each competition.

Plan for conflicts and incomplete reviews

Ask jurors to read the deadline and confidentiality rules before scoring. They can save an in-progress draft, then confirm impartiality before the final evaluation.

If a juror knows a participant, is linked to the organization or cannot evaluate the work, they should declare the conflict and explain it. The organizer can arrange another reviewer and retain the reason for that change.

Expert Jury status has a separate review and manual validation process. Do not treat a paid plan, an organization title or a proposed invitation as proof of that status.

Use the history for follow-up

Review the activity history for the actions performed on the competition. A sponsor/CRM export event records that an authorized person generated an export. It is not a submitted proof document or confirmation that a sponsor received and reviewed it.

Handle moderation reports and appeals through their review process. Keep the reason for a decision and the supporting context. For provisional results, communicate the dispute window before treating a ranking as final.

Read the Organizer guide and Jury guide to prepare the handover between your team members.

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