Scrutineer

You are a scrutineer if you are an official or official’s representative responsible for verifying judging accuracy, handling scoring disputes, resolving appeals, or managing ranking quality for a federation or event.

This role hub covers:

  • Setting up access and permissions
  • Understanding when you’re assigned to events or rankings
  • Reviewing scores and results for accuracy
  • Handling exceptions and appeals
  • Managing your role transitions

Not sure if you’re a scrutineer? Start with Finding Your Role.

Most scrutineer work happens in the feature sections below after an event is underway.

Scrutineer steps

  1. Account creation
  2. Getting a license
  3. Applying for a school/club
  4. Federation status through school/club
  5. Event assignment
  6. Creating and getting rankings
  7. Age transfer impacts
  8. Class transfer impacts
  9. Renew license
  10. Retiring from active duty

Dedicated feature sections

  1. Manager Guide
  2. Special formats
  3. Manual Workflows

How to use this hub

  1. Start on a scrutineer step when the issue is about readiness, assignment, or escalation.
  2. Switch to Manager Guide for the operational event workflow.
  3. Switch to Special formats when the event format changes the normal flow.
  4. Use Manual Workflows only when federation staff have approved an exception that affects the published outcome.

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