Judge the entry, not the paperwork.
LiveJudge is car show judging software, and it runs motorcycle, truck and RC scale events on the same engine. Judges score from their phones on the rubric you wrote, the crowd votes Best in Show from theirs, and every entry carries a printed tag.
Your classes. Your criteria. Out on the field.
Paint and body, interior, engine bay, undercarriage, presentation, weighted the way your club actually weights them. One element splits into as many criteria as it needs, so panel gaps and chrome are scored separately rather than folded into one number somebody argues about later.
Judges score on a color-graded slider with the written guidance for that band sitting under it. Heads-Up Mode swaps the sliders for tap buttons when a judge would rather keep their eyes on the car.
No app, no passwords, and no venue WiFi, which matters when the show is in a field behind a fairground.
Finish Quality
8.6Deep, even finish with no visible defects at arm's length.
Panel Gaps
7.1Even gaps with one panel slightly out.
Chrome & Trim
8.9Bright, straight trim throughout.
Drag any slider. The guidance and the score follow.
A bigger seat.
All the same features.
Hand a judge any tablet in landscape and LiveJudge opens a larger judging layout. Every element sits in a rail with its running subtotal, and the open element fills the screen with bigger sliders and room to read the guidance.
Turn it sideways
Any tablet in landscape gets the larger layout. Nothing to install or switch on.
All the same features
Slider and heads-up modes, written guidance, the same weighting and the same math.
Next, not back
Previous and Next buttons on every element, so heads-up judges never hunt for the list.
Preview it first
Tap Tablet View in Class Studio to see exactly what your judges will see.
A kind judge's 7.5 is not a grumpy judge's 7.5.
The judging screen shows 1-10 sliders for each evaluation criterion. Look at the difference between a bare 1-10 slider and a "judge guided" version of the same slider.
Without judge guidance, two judges evaluating the same thing might land on wildly varying scores.
Band 4 of 6Very good finish with a few isolated flaws.
Both judges are reading the same sentence, so both land in band 4. They still do not agree exactly, and closing that last gap is what normalization is for.
One judge came up around concours cars, the next one builds drivers and shows them dirty. Hand both a bare 1 to 10 scale and the same paint comes back a 9 and a 6, because a 7.5 means something different to each of them. Neither of them is wrong. Nobody ever told them what a 7.5 is.
So LiveJudge tells them, on the screen, while they score. Any criterion can carry six written bands in your words, which is where your club settles once and for all whether orange peel at arm's length is a 6 or an 8. The guidance under the slider rewrites itself the moment the score crosses into the next band.
That pulls a field of judges together at the source, before a single algorithm runs. Normalization still settles the judge who marks hard. It simply has far less left to fix.
Six bands, your words
Write what a 4 looks like and what a 9 looks like once, when you build the class. Judges mark to your club's standard instead of their own taste.
It rewrites as they score
Move the slider and the sentence underneath changes to the band the score just landed in. Every criterion carries its own.
No judges' meeting to sit through
The standard is on the phone in their hand while they walk the row, so a judge you pulled in that morning marks the same way as the one who wrote the class.
Then the math runs
Anchored marks arrive closer together, so normalization and the high/low drop are correcting a smaller gap, not rescuing the result.
Judge 4 grades everyone hard. Every opinion counts equally here, which drags this contestant down.
Everyone has that one judge.
The member who has never given a 10 in fifteen years, and the one who gives everybody a 9. On a paper sheet that difference decides your class winner more often than the cars do. Try it on the left: one entry, four judges, and the fourth marks everyone hard. Switch the method and watch the result move.
Pick the method your club uses from Raw average, High/low drop, Z-score, and Olympic-Z. Raw marks are preserved underneath, ties are detected automatically, and every result carries an audit trail and a CSV export, which is the difference between settling a protest in two minutes and relitigating it all winter.
Every class, every judge, one screen.
Build the judge roster once and assign it across every class. Decide what finished means, every assigned judge or any two of six, and the console shows which entries are still short. Set advancement once and it applies itself, and nudge a judge by text without leaving the page.
Scoring Admin
RecalculateExport Scores| Rank | Entry | Judges | Round score Provisional |
Final score Provisional |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #141969 Camaro SSRita Vance | T. Ruiz92.40M. Hobbs89.10S. Okada94.20 |
91.90 | 91.901 of 2 rounds in |
| 2 | #22Ducati 900SSOwen Brady | T. Ruiz87.30M. Hobbs85.60S. Okada88.40 |
87.10 | 87.101 of 2 rounds in |
| — | #311955 Ford F-100Dana Kroll | T. Ruiz84.50 1 more judges needed |
Not scored | Not scored |
| — | #07Bell 222 ScaleCal Whitfield | Nobody yet 2 more judges needed |
Not scored | Not scored |
A printed tag on every entry.
Print a tag per entry with two QR codes: one takes a judge to that entry's scoresheet, the other takes a spectator to it on the ballot. No lists to scroll, no numbers to type, and no clipboard to lose.
Best in Show belongs to the crowd.
Fan voting is the part people remember. Open a ballot and the field votes from their own phones, browsing every entry with photos and specs, with a live countdown so nobody misses the close.
Set how many votes each person gets, geo-fence to a quarter mile so only people actually at the show can vote, and put a sponsor on the ballot if one is paying for it. Blend the crowd's result with the judges' at whatever weighting you choose and Best in Show reflects both.
Every entry on the field today. Two votes each, from anyone at the show.
You have 2 votes left on this ballot
The ballot your audience sees, on their own phones.
What show organizers ask us first.
Do judges have to download anything?
No. Runs in any phone browser. Nothing to install, nothing to update. A judge scans the tag on the entry, signs in with an SMS code, and scores. Nothing to install and nothing to hand out.
We run twelve classes and a Best in Show. Does that fit?
Yes. Classes are yours to define, each with its own rubric, its own judges and its own standings, inside one event. Best in Show can be a fan ballot, a judged class, or a composite of both at a weighting you set.
Our field has no signal and no WiFi.
No dedicated network required. Judges, contestants and fans use their own devices and connections. Judges, entrants and spectators all use their own devices and their own connections. No routers, no cables, no cell booster.
How do entries get into the system?
Entrants self-register and add their own photos and specs, or you import and add them from the console. Invite-only works too. An entry added once can be reused at every show you host, so a regular does not re-type their car every year.
Can people stuff the fan ballot?
Set a vote limit per person, and geo-fence voting to a radius as tight as a quarter mile from the field so a link shared online is worth nothing to someone at home.
Does it handle RC and scale models?
Yes, and it was built around that kind of event. Scale RC is judged the same way a car is: an entry, a class, a weighted rubric, and a panel. Static and flight rounds can both live in one event.
What happens when someone protests a result?
You open the entry and show them. Every judge's marks, per round, per element, with the weight beside each, plus the normalization method that was applied. Ties are flagged automatically and the whole event exports to CSV.
What does it cost?
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, never more than $299 an event, plus 2.5% of anything you sell through our checkout. Full detail is on the pricing page.
Other events on the same engine.
Every judged event is a rubric, a panel and a room. See what else LiveJudge runs, including pitch and academic competitions and science fairs, or go straight to pricing and the FAQ.