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A Quick Look |
For most people, all of their questions about World Wide Champ can be answered by reading the below. Please take a few moments to familiarize yourself with the following questions and answers...thanks! World Wide Champ holds competitions (events) for amateur athletes (competitors) from all over the world who submit videos that are graded by expert judges. Competitions are held weekly in thousands of events. As soon as one event closes (on Sunday night at midnight New York City time), another one opens in the same category. Why should I register with World Wide Champ? If you wish to COMPETE, or if you are an expert in a sport and you want to apply to become a judge, then you must register. How do I find the specific competition that I am looking for, and how do I COMPETE! in that event? Every competition is held in a specific event on a specific event date. An event is defined as a specific SPORT, STYLE, TYPE, AGE, GENDER, SKILL, and ATHLETE. Note that if even one of the seven variables is changed, it is considered an entirely separate event. When selecting an event, remember to choose the categories in order. It's easy to find the competition you are looking for:
The event date refers to the date that the event closes. Every event is open for entries for one week, and closes on Sunday night (the event date) at midnight. When viewing an event in the COMPETITIONS page, please note the the event date can be changed by placing your cursor over the event date, so you can easily jump to a different week's competitions in this event, or see who has entered so far in the current (open) competition. To compete at any time, just click the COMPETE! tab and follow the directions on that page to upload your video. What is the difference between the COMPETITIONS, SCORECARD, and RANKINGS pages? The COMPETITIONS page displays all competitors videos submitted to a single event on a single event date. On this page, users have the option of selecting different event dates to view current (open) or past (closed) competitions. The SCORECARD page displays all videos submitted by a single competitor in a single event. Summary statistics about this competitor are available here. Competitors that have entered more than one category of event have a separate scorecard for each event. Users have the option (on this page) to choose other events that this competitor has entered in order to link directly to the other scorecard pages for this competitor. The RANKING page displays statistics and a video-linked list of all competitors in a single event who have active points in that event. If you are interested in seeing everyone who is ranked in a particular event, click on the RANKINGS tab. Rank is different than Place. Place refers to the place a competitor achieved in a particular week's competition. Rank refers to the competitor's overall status in that category of event. Rank takes up to a year's worth of events into account, whereas Place is for one week's event only. How do I know which event to enter? First, choose the sport, style, and type that you will perform in your video. Then, choose the age group, gender, skill level, and athlete categories that apply to you. For skill level, you might want to check out some videos in past events to help you see which level would be the best match for your current skills. For the athlete category, choose "all athletes", unless one of the other options applies to you. How do you check the credentials of Judges? Judges must supply up to 5 credentials and up to 5 references, including but not limited to the following: competitions that they have won; certificates or degrees from schools, training academies, governing bodies, or the like; teams they have coached or schools that they teach at; websites that document their status as experts (their own websites as well as other websites that reference them); and, the number of years of experience they have. Based on this, a decision is made on what SPORT-STYLE-TYPE combinations for which the judges are authorized. What if a judge lies about his or her experience? It would be very unwise for judges to lie about their credentials, but we do recognize the possibility that this could happen. We have several mechanisms for addressing this and rooting out fraud. The most powerful method of fraud prevention is the user community. The Judges' self-identified credentials are public for all users to see, along with their self-submitted thumbnail picture. Users who recognize a fraud can and should report it. We will investigate all credible allegations of fraud. Can I submit the same video to more than one competition? Yes. Let's take an example: some users may not be sure if they are ready to move up in skill level from, say, intermediate to advanced. They might enter the intermediate level, score high, and then decide they are now ready for the advanced skill level from that point forward. They are entitled to enter the same video to the advanced category and see how it goes. In fact, users can enter the same video to as many categories as they wish. All categories keep separate rankings. HOWEVER....users CANNOT, at any time, submit the same video more than once to the same category. For more info on this topic, please review the Rules of Competition. Can I submit more than one video to the same competition in the same week? No. One entry per competitor (or pair) per competition per week. However, if it is a pairs competition and you are a member of multiple pairs, each pair is considered a separate entity; therefore, each of your pairs can submit a separate entry even if it is within the same competition in the same week. Of course, you may submit a new video every week to the same type of event - but only once per week per competitor (or pair). Also remember, there is no limit on the number of different events you can enter in the same week. If you wish to compete in several categories, you are welcome to do that. For each competition, there will be five judges (including a chief judge) who will view each video and enter a score of 1.0 to 10.0 (or disqualified). The high and low scores for each video will not count when calculating the average score of each video. When all of the scores are entered and submitted by each of the five judges for all of the competitors in a particular event, the site administrator will “post” the scores so that they become visible to the public. Note that none of the judges scores will be visible to the public or even to the other judges until such point as the administrator posts the results of the entire event to the public. Competitors are also assigned a "place" (e.g., "placed #1 of 999") for each video entry based on sorting the entries by score from highest to lowest. In the case of ties, a tiebreaker methodology is applied to attempt to break the tie (see below). What if 2 or more competitors tie? Is there a tie-breaker methodology? In the event of a tie between two or more competitors, the following protocols will be followed to attempt to break the tie: 1) The chief judge's score will be viewed to determine if it breaks the tie (even if the chief judge assigned the high or low score). If the chief judge assigned different scores for the competitors that are initially tied, then his or her scoring will be used to break the tie. In other words, if the average score for three competitors is all 8.4, and say they tied for 4th place, but the chief judge scored them as 8.5, 8.4, and 8.3, then they will be placed 4, 5, and 6 accordingly. However, the average score that appears next to their video will not change, and it will still appear that on a numerical basis, they all scored the same. 2) If the chief judge does not break the tie because he/she scored two or more of the tied competitors equally, then (for the competitors that are still tied) the low scores will be compared to determine if it breaks the tie. 3) If adding back in the low score still does not break the tie because the low scores were equal for two or more of the tied competitors, then (for the competitors that are still tied) the high scores will be compared to determine if it breaks the tie. 4) If adding back in the high score still does not break the tie because the high scores were equal for two or more of the tied competitors,, then they will be assigned the same placement – it is officially a tie. Competitors will also be awarded a number of points for each video entry, defined as the number of competitors they outscored in that particular competition. (For example, the competitor that places #10 of 100 will be awarded 90 points for that event). All competitors who get disqualified will receive zero points for that week's competition. Points expire on a rolling basis after the results of 50 additional competitions have been posted to the public in the same exact event (regardless of any individual competitor's participation in all 50 weeks of events or not). Thus, for example, if a particular event is held for fifty-one weeks in a row, the points accrued by competitors in week one will “expire” the moment that the results from week fifty-one become public (but not a moment sooner). Similarly, the points accrued in week two will “expire” the moment that the results from week fifty-two become public. Points are applicable only to the specific event that they are accrued in. Thus, a competitor that enters multiple types of competitions will accrue separate points in each of those events. A competitor can enter as many different events as he/she chooses; however, only one video can be submitted to each event each week. Every category of event will maintain a ranked list of competitors based on each of the competitors total un-expired points. Thus, the competitor that enters the same category/event every week for 50 weeks will have maximum opportunity to accrue points towards his/her ranking. Each week that they do not compete, they will not gain any points. Furthermore, points that were gained 50 competitions ago will expire, and thus they will lose those points on a rolling basis. However, even if a competitor enters an event only once, he/she will still remain a ranked competitor for the next 50 weeks, i.e., until all points expire (or he/she removes the video) and thus he/she ends up with zero points. Competitors with zero points do not have a rank. Note that if a competitor decides to remove his or her video, it will not affect the amount of points that the competitors who outscored him or her that week have accrued towards their ranking. The competitor that removes his/her video, however, will lose all of his or her own points gained from that video. Because users can enter multiple events, and can accrue points in multiple events, they therefore can be ranked in multiple events at the same time. Additionally, each pair is considered its own entity for the purpose of ranking, and competitors can belong to multiple pairs, even within the same event. How can I win a World Wide Champ trophy? 
World Wide Champ trophies are electronic images that are emailed to competitors who win 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place in a World Wide Champ event. The image is linked to your winning performance on the website. Therefore, If you win a trophy, you can email copies of it to your friends and family, you can post in your social networking page (like MySpace or FaceBook), or you can add it to your website or the website of your coach, team, or school. How do I partner with another competitor to submit a video to a PAIRS competition?
Some events are necessarily two-person categories. For example, couples skating, fighting sequences, etc., each have two individuals performing their art or sport on one video. In order to enable pairs to compete together on the web site, pairs must be linked in advance via the My Accounts area. Both partners must independently authorize the other partner in order for a pair to become (and remain) active. All competitors have the ability to specify the username of another competitor as a proposed partner. The pair will be in “inactive” status (and will not appear in the proposed partner's account) until the second user in the proposed pair specifies the username of the first user. The site will not send notifications to users when another user selected them for a proposed partner. Pairings require off-line communications between
people that know one another. If both users do select each other, the pair becomes active. The partners are considered equal. Thus, either partner can submit videos for the pair. The My Competitions section of the My Account screen has separate links for each partner, where the videos associated with each of the pairs are displayed. Pairs can be active for a period of time and then later suspended and/or re-activated by either partner. Suspension of a pair does not delete the partnership nor the videos that were submitted for this pair. It does, however, prevent the future uploading of videos for this pair (unless and until it is re-activated by both partners). The COMPETE! page allows you to submit videos as “solo” or in partnership with one of your active partners. Each pair is considered a separate entity for the purposes of accumulating points and rankings in events. Furthermore, each pair has their own Ranking and Scorecard. The Ranking and Scorecard for a pair is totally separate from each of the two users' individual rankings and scorecards, or the rankings and scorecards that relate to other pairs to which each of those 2 users might also belong. I don't get it. If you have to be over 13 to register, why are there categories for kids under 13? How do I get my child's videos into competitions on World Wide Champ? Children are not permitted to register on World Wide Champ. But parents may choose to register, and designate the account to be used to submit videos on behalf of their child. If they do so, the videos will be entered into competitions with the child's name. What is the JUDGES SCORING HISTORY page Specators and Competitors can view any judges' self-submitted credentials, the sport-style-types that they are authorized to judge, and their historical scoring statistics, including summary data (number of events judged, number of videos scored, average score given, median score given, % high scorer, % low scorer. It also displays a thumbnail picture of the judge and their country flag. What is the role of the Chief Judge? The chief judge's score is used to break ties. Please see the tiebreaker FAQ for more details. In addition to this, the chief judge may performs a private review of the competition results once they are posted in order to provide valuable feedback to the World Wide Champ administrator. However, the chief judge does not have access to the scores of the other judges before they are posted, and can in no way influence or change posted scores. Can I set up my own tournament? Yes. If you are a promoter, or if you have a large organization and want to hold a tournament just for your group, then contact World Wide Champ for more details. You can be up and running with your own tournament on World Wide Champ - including all of the features such as personalized SCORECARDS and RANKINGS for your event - within minutes. I read the FAQ...and I still need help. What should I do? First, you can review some other documentation on the website, including the Terms of Use, the Privacy Policy, or the Rules of Competition, to see if that might answer your questions. Or, you can contact our helpdesk. It sounds like you have a unique issue and we want to help you resolve it. We'll do our best to resolve your issues as fast as we can. |