Software

The Standard comes alive with livejudge

Promoters who adopt the standard must use LiveJudge™ to efficiently, fairly and precisely judge each contestant.

What the record has to show

Six behaviors, each tied to one of the four conditions a host has to keep. They are written as things the record must show, so that anyone may build something that shows them.

Why software at all

What enforcement looks like when it is built in

An earlier draft of the Charter committed the Council to a Standard administrable entirely on paper. That commitment was withdrawn, in the open, because paper cannot evidence a lock: a paper sheet records a number, and cannot record that the number was fixed before the head judge spoke. Held to the letter it produced a standard whose central conditions were unfalsifiable. What the Council kept is the part that matters, which is that the specification is free, complete and open and needs nobody's permission to implement. What it gave up is the claim that a show needs no tooling at all.

a

Your rubric, written up for you

Upload the score sheet your federation already judges with, or describe the event, and the classes come back with every judged element, the weight it carries and six bands saying what each level looks like. Edit any of it. The Council's own division tables are there as a template for anyone who wants them, and a new show starts from something rather than an empty grid somebody fills in the week before.

Supports Have a rubric, and score that one
b

The score says what it means, in words

Each element is a 0 to 10 slider, and as the judge moves it the band wording for that value is displayed. A 7.5 is not a number a judge has to interpret privately: it reads back the published wording for a 7.5, so two judges land on the same number for the same reason.

Supports Publish before you open
c

Scores lock, and nobody can reach back in

A judge submits on their own phone, and a submitted score is not editable afterward by that judge, the head judge or the promoter. No judge sees another's score before their own is in. A panel that wanted to agree the answer first would have to do it where the record shows they did.

Supports Judge independently
d

Per-athlete scoresheets, with the caps on them

The host prints or sends a scoresheet for every athlete: elements, weights, the score on each, any health cap and the condition that triggered it, and the total. Judges dictate a note instead of typing it, which is the only way a note survives the turnaround between callouts, and the note goes out with the sheet.

Supports Release and explain
e

The arithmetic is not somebody's arithmetic

The high and the low are dropped and each judge's spread is normalized by formula, on every class, whether or not anybody is watching. A show cannot apply the published drop to one class and a kinder one to the class its own favorite entered, because there is nowhere to do it by hand.

Supports Judge independently
f

The record keeps itself

Every score carries the time it was locked and the judge it came from, every applied cap carries the condition that triggered it, and the rubric the class ran is stored with the class. Nobody has to remember to keep it, which is the only version of a record that survives a show night. Producing it for an athlete who asks is a page, not an archaeology project.

Supports Judge independently

Every one of those four is a condition of the claim in the Standard's Conformance section, whether the tool keeps it or a person does.

The Standard, as the software ships it

The division tables and the band wording below were loaded from the Council's own preset rather than typed in by hand, which is one of the two ways a show gets there; the other is uploading the rubric the federation already uses. Either way the judge is reading published wording off a screen instead of scoring from memory.

The scoring library showing the sixteen judged elements of the Physique Standard
All sixteen judged elements, preloaded. Each carries the Council's own description and the single criterion it is scored on. The health caps are in the element text: Definition & Separation names the 7.0 cap for visible depletion, and Condition & Tone names the shape-division ceiling.
The class library showing the eight published divisions and their element counts
Eight divisions, each with its own table. The element counts match Section 2.2 exactly: seven for Men's Physique, nine for Women's Bodybuilding, eight for the rest. No division carries all sixteen.
An official score report for one athlete, showing every element, its weight and the points it contributed
The scoresheet Section 1.3 requires. Placement, final score, then every element, the weight it carried and the points it contributed. The weights are the published Men's Bodybuilding table, 24 down to 4, summing to 100. This is what an athlete leaves with instead of a placing and a shrug.
The organizer console for a physique show
Run the show from one console. Classes, ballots, athletes, rounds and judges, with publishing controlled from a single checklist.
The scoring console showing normalization, scaling, low round drop and judge configuration
The arithmetic of Section 1.1, in the open. The class ranked by total, with normalization, scaling, low round drop and judge configuration shown as settings on the class. Published with the result rather than decided afterward.

On the day

The same show, from four sides.

What the four conditions look like backstage: what an athlete sees, what a judge is handed, what the audience gets, and what the promoter runs it all from.

The athlete

Signs in by scanning the show's QR code. No password, no download. Sees their division, the table it will be judged on, and the band wording behind every element, before they step on stage.

The class on a phone, showing every athlete in the division

The judge

Scores on their own phone against the published weights. Moving the slider prints the band wording for that value, so a 7.5 is not left to private interpretation. The score locks when it is submitted, before any comparison is discussed. A note is dictated rather than typed, which is the only way one survives the turnaround between callouts, and the judge chooses whether the athlete sees it.

A judge scoring an element, with the band wording printed under the slider
A judge dictating a note for an athlete, with the private or visible toggle

The audience

Scans the same code to browse the class from any seat and vote on a ballot the host defines. Audience voting is reported separately and never touches a judged placing: it is its own award, counted on its own, and nothing a spectator does reaches the panel's scores.

A spectator voting on the Fan Favorite ballot from their own phone

Every screen above is from a live event running the published rubric. Everything about the platform lives at livejudge.com, including its case for how bodybuilding should be judged.