Patent ID: 7321858

Claim:
A system for evaluating and selecting competition winners from a pool of candidates in a competition comprising: a database for storing candidate records; a qualification subsystem coupled to said database for determining said candidate records to be qualified or disqualified; a grouping subsystem coupled to said database for grouping said candidate records into evaluation groups responsive to information contained in said candidate records; an evaluation subsystem coupled to said qualification subsystem and said database for evaluating and scoring each of said candidate records having been qualified over one or more evaluation variables; a selection subsystem coupled to said evaluation subsystem and database for selecting one or more competition finalists for each of said evaluation groups responsive to said evaluation and scoring of said candidate records having been qualified; and a tracking subsystem coupled to said evaluation subsystem for tracking said one or more competition finalists and one or more non-selected candidates and determining an actual success indicator for each of one or more performance variables.