PSA: Here's how you look for your app in the voting page

[luluthepooh]

If I were hosting this competition, this is how I’d do it:

1. Send 50 app submissions to 3 Googlers.
2. Those 3 Googlers will judge each of the same 50 app submissions based on the following criteria (scoring them between 1-5): Remarkability, Creativity, Usefulness, Impactfulness, Execution.
3. The average scores from those 3 Googlers will be recorded and used for judging each app as a whole.
4. The host will shortlist the apps that scored the highest on each of the judging criteria.
5. Then further refining the list till they figure out which app deserves which awards. Imagine an app that uses Firebase scores highly on all 5 categories will likely be picked as the winner.

Google is a large company. The hosts will surely get tons of volunteers at Google to help with judging criteria scoring. I mean who doesn’t enjoy watching new app creations?

This is how I imagined it’d work and why I competed in the first place. I’m randomly guessing everything here lol.

P.S. I agree that judging 3046+ apps by a few people ONLY would mean the competition will be HIGHLY subjective.

Also, they are most likely to follow the judging process I mentioned before that @Lloyd_Hightower said was spot on:

Will we be notified that the review of our app is ongoing or that the judging phase starts?

As far as I can tell from reading the rules and forums often, we will NOT be notified when the judging starts. Right now, Judges are busy flagging projects/submissions as disqualified for not following the rules (video doesn’t work, under 18 years old etc). For competitions like these, judges don’t typically test every single app. They will simply watch the videos and judge whether they qualify for any of the categories or not. Then they will further filter the list by scoring each one of the…