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Community voting lets event attendees cast votes for their favorite projects, adding a crowd-sourced signal alongside judge scoring. When enabled, community votes are factored into the Leaderboard rankings.

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Enabling community judging

Community voting is configured in your event’s settings:
1

Open Event Settings

Navigate to the Event Settings tab in your event’s management dashboard.
2

Enable community judging

Toggle Community Judging to on. This makes the voting interface available to registered attendees.
3

Configure max votes per user

Set the maximum number of total votes each attendee can cast across all projects. This prevents any single user from dominating the results.
4

Configure max votes per project

Set the maximum number of votes any single attendee can give to one project. Setting this to 1 means each person gets one vote per project.
You can enable or disable community voting at any time during the event. Existing votes are preserved if you toggle it off and back on.

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How voting works for attendees

When community judging is enabled, registered attendees can vote on projects from the event page:
  1. Browse projects — attendees see all submitted projects for the event
  2. Cast votes — click the vote button on projects they want to support
  3. Vote limits enforced — the system prevents voting beyond the configured per-user and per-project limits
  4. View leaderboard — attendees can see the public leaderboard with community vote counts

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Vote limits

Vote limits help keep community voting fair and meaningful:
SettingDescriptionExample
Max votes per userTotal votes one attendee can cast across all projects5 votes total
Max votes per projectMaximum votes one attendee can give to a single project1 vote per project
A common configuration is 5 max votes per user and 1 max vote per project — this encourages attendees to spread their votes across multiple projects they find interesting.

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Vote aggregation in the leaderboard

Community votes are aggregated and displayed on the Leaderboard:
  • Vote count — the total number of community votes each project received
  • Alongside judge scores — both judge scores and community votes are shown so managers can weigh each signal
  • Combined ranking — the overall leaderboard ranking factors in both judge scores and community votes

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Monitoring votes

From the event management dashboard, you can monitor community voting activity:
  • Total votes cast — visible in the event stats dashboard under Project stats
  • Per-project votes — visible on the leaderboard and in project details
  • Voting progress — track how many attendees have used their votes
Community voting is public — attendees can see vote counts. If you want judges to score independently without community influence, complete judge scoring before enabling community voting.

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Next steps

Event Settings

Configure community judging limits and other event settings.

Leaderboard

View combined rankings from judges and community votes.

Judge Scoring

Review judge scores alongside community votes.