Closing your Voting to Judging

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With this PRO package option, a popular vote will determine your contest finalists and judges will determine your contest winners.

In this guide we’ll walk you through the transition from voting to judging, and how to close your contest through our system.

We’ll also take a look at some creative ways to showcase your contest winners.

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Voting Round > Confirm > Judging > Confirm > Notify > Claim > Site Update

Let the voting begin

When a user logs in via Facebook (or by default on contests launched as a Facebook App) they will be prompted to share their favorite entry on their Timeline after casting a vote for all their friends and family to see!

Voting limits as per your settings will be enforced. As questions from your contest community are sure to arise, you may find our participant FAQs helpful.

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When the voting round comes to a close, take a look at the Strutta Fraud Guard results to ensure voting integrity. Then, take action in your Admin Dashboard > Timeline.

Click Review & Confirm

Your live site will be updated to reflect the closed voting round: voting capabilities removed, buttons and timeline messaging updated.

NoteWinners will not be published on the site through our system at this point. You must first Review & Confirm the winners.

If your contest has more than one winner, you can drag and drop the winner rankings.

Click Replace to select another entry for each winners spot.

Click Confirm to proceed to the Prize Claiming round.

Voting Round > Confirm > Judging > Confirm > Notify > Claim > Site Update

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Voting Round > Confirm > Judging > Confirm > Notify > Claim > Site Update

The finalists will be published to the site when you confirm them. The judging round will begin as per your specific timeline.

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When the voting round has finished, take action in your Admin Dashboard > Timeline.

Click Set up Judging.

While the judges pick winners on the back end, your live site will be updated to reflect the closed submission round: submission capabilities removed, buttons and timeline messaging updated.

NoteWinners will not be published to the site through our system at this point.

The judges must first pick the winners. You’ll also have the chance to review & confirm the winners before any winners are published to the live site.

Voting Round > Confirm > Judging > Confirm > Notify > Claim > Site Update

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Voting Round > Confirm > Judging > Confirm > Notify > Claim > Site Update

We’ve streamlined the judging process for you and your judges. When the time comes, just go to your Admin Dashboard > Timeline.

If you have not named judges yet (in the Content > Details section of your Strutta builder), you can add judges now.

Customize the pre-populated message and then send out the e-mails.

NoteDo not remove the <judge> or <link> placeholder, it will be replaced in the e-mail with a unique link that will lead each judge to their personal judging interface.

Example Received E-mail

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Judging Interface

Each judge will be directed to a judging interface where they will review their favorite entries and rank them. Judges can drag and drop the ranking of their shortlisted picks.

Judges do not have to submit their picks in one sitting. Our system will automatically save their shortlist so they can leave and return to their work at their connivence.

You can track judging results in your Admin Dashboard > Timeline.

Voting Round > Confirm > Judging > Confirm > Notify > Claim > Site Update

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Once all judges have submitted their picks, you’ll need to take action:

Click Review & Confirm.

If your contest has more than one winner, you can drag and drop the winner rankings.

Click Replace to select another entry for each winners spot.

Click Confirm to proceed to the Voting round.

Voting Round > Confirm > Judging > Confirm > Notify > Claim > Site Update

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You’ve confirmed the winners. Now its time to let them know what they’ve won!

Click Send Winner Notifications to close your site through our system. The site will post the winners when all the winners have claimed their prize.

You can also click Skip This Step to publish winners immediately. The site updates automatically to reflect winers. You must notify winners manually.

Assign any listed prizes to each winner and personalize the message.

Do not remove the <link> placeholder, It will be replaced in an email with a unique link that will lead each winner to their prize claiming form.

Voting Round > Confirm > Judging > Confirm > Notify > Claim > Site Update

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Winners will click through to the prize claiming form.

Track who has claimed their prizes and collect the contact information in your Admin Dashboard > Tools > Export Data.

Once all winners have claimed their prizes, your contest will close.

Voting Round > Confirm > Judging > Confirm > Notify > Claim > Site Update

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Voting Round > Confirm > Judging > Confirm > Notify > Claim > Site Update

Once all winners have claimed their prizes, your contest will automatically close and your site will update to reflect the winners!

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Other ways to display your winners

Before you send out the good word on Facebook, in blog posts, tweets, e-blasts and other communications, make sure your site is updated.

You can edit your site while it is live in your Admin Dashboard > Edit, we encourage you to get creative!

We’ll host your site for an additional two weeks past the contest’s end date. Beyond that you can keep it live by enabling Extended Hosting.

Maggiano’s updated the graphic in the Look & Feel > Intro Image section of their Strutta Builder to show their prize winners.

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More ideas

• Create a photo or video collage of the winners for your sites About page.

• Create a video with your big news and update your Intro video.

• Update your Prizes page to name who has won what prize.

N_K_D Pizza used simple HTML in the Details section of their Strutta builder to create a video collage of their finalists.

Here’s our HTML cheat sheet

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There You Have It!Your Voting to Judging Contest is now closed.

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