Patent ID: 8663017

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving competition information for a competition, wherein the competition information comprises a plurality of evaluation criteria, two or more rating adjectives, and information for one or more rounds of the competition, wherein only one round of the one or more rounds can be open for judging at a time; calculating, using a processor, a rating value for each of the two or more rating adjectives; receiving one or more entries, wherein the one or more entries are submitted into the competition associated with the competition information, and wherein each of the one or more entries are associated with one of a plurality of contestants; conducting at least one round of judging, each round of judging comprising: sending, to one or more judging terminals, a round information, wherein the round information comprises the plurality of evaluation criteria, each entry in the round, and at least two of the two or more rating adjectives; receiving, from each of the one or more judging terminals, voting information, wherein the voting information comprises a rating adjective selection for each of the plurality of evaluation criteria for each of the entries in the round; calculating an individual weighted criteria score for each individual evaluation criteria of the plurality of evaluation criteria for each entry, wherein the weighted criteria score is based on the rating value associated with the rating adjective selections received from the one or more judging terminals; calculating a round score for each entry, wherein the round score is calculated based on the weighted criteria score for each of the plurality of evaluation criteria, and wherein the round score is associated with the round; ranking entries in the round, wherein the rank is determined based on the round score for each of the one or more entries in the round; removing non-qualifying entries, wherein the non-qualifying entries are based on the round score of one or more entries in the round; determining that the round is the last round of judging; and if the round is the last round of judging, identifying one or more remaining entries based at least on the determining that the round is the last round of judging.