LiveJudge is mobile scoring, judging and fan-voting software for live events. Judges score from their own phones, the audience follows and votes from theirs, and you control the rubric down to the last element. Below is what people want to know before they commit an event to it.
No. LiveJudge runs in any phone browser. Judges, contestants, and fans open a link or scan a QR code and they are in. There is nothing to install and nothing to update.
They don't need to. Sign-in is by SMS code, so there are no passwords to forget. A judge enters a phone number, taps the code, and starts scoring.
No dedicated network required. Judges, contestants and fans use their own devices and connections. No routers, no cables, no venue network to arrange.
Sign in, build your event, and start testing. Most hosts go from sign-in to a working test event in about two minutes. Events with 10 contestants or fewer are free with every feature, so testing costs nothing.
Yes, though you may not need us. The AI Class Builder turns the score sheet you already use (a PDF, a photo of the paper, a spreadsheet or a Word file) into classes, weighted elements and six bands of judge guidance. No rubric yet? Describe your event and it drafts one, or start from a ready-made template for car shows, pageants, science fairs, cook-offs and more. While you build, What to Do Next checks your setup for anything still missing and offers AI advice on getting more out of it, and the AI assistant in your console answers questions using your own event setup. And if you would rather hand it to a person, send us your scoresheet and we will build it for you for free, then walk you through your first event.
Pay-as-you-go. No subscriptions, no per-seat license, and no credit card to start. Events with 10 contestants or fewer are free. Bigger ones pay $3.49 a contestant however they got in, never more than $299 an event, plus 2.5% of anything you sell through our checkout. Fan voting is free for the first 100 votes an event, then $0.10 a vote. Full detail is on the pricing page.
Contestants self-register for classes and ballots, or you import and add them from the console. You can also run invite-only events. Entries added once can be reused across any event you host.
All of it. You define the classes, the elements inside each class, the weight of every element, and the score increments. LiveJudge honors the rubric you build exactly rather than bending your event to fit a template.
You choose the normalization method from Raw average, High/low drop, Z-score, and Olympic-Z. Each one makes a strict panel and a lenient one carry equal weight, so no single judge's calibration decides the outcome. The method is your call, and the raw scores are always preserved underneath.
Increments of 0.5, 0.25, and 0.1, set per event. Judges score with color-graded sliders or in Heads-Up Mode, which uses tap buttons or deduction blocks for events where a judge cannot look down at a screen.
Anything judged. Academic and pitch events (pitch competitions, science fairs, abstract review, case competitions, hackathons, speech contests), shows and showcases (car, motorcycle, pet, and RC events, cook-offs), and dance and performance (dance, cheer, pageants, talent, gymnastics). It handles both individual and entry-based formats.
Yes. Fan voting runs on the audience's own phones, with sponsored ballots if you want them, and geo-fencing so you can limit voting to people actually present at the event.
A live contestant list with photos and specs, their own standing as it moves, and an official score report when results go final. The paperwork is finished the moment scoring closes.
Yes. Schedule a demo and we will walk you through the console, the judge's seat, and the fairness engine on your own event type.