Reviewing video submissions for a large online competition is one of the most time-consuming tasks an organizer faces. If you have hundreds of athletes submitting videos, reviewing every single one in full isn't realistic — but missing a standards infraction or an incorrect score can undermine the integrity of your leaderboard.
Community Video Review is a smart triage tool that puts the eyes of your entire athlete community to work, helping you identify which submissions most need your attention — so your staff can focus their review time where it matters most.
How It Works
When Community Video Review is enabled, athletes and registered Competition Corner users can watch leaderboard videos and flag submissions against three criteria:
Movement Standard Infraction — the athlete did not meet the required movement standards
Incorrect Score / Time — the submitted score or time doesn't match what was performed in the video
Performed as Prescribed — the submission looks clean and accurate
This gives you a real-time signal from the community about which videos are raising questions — before your judging team has even started their review.
The Feedback Is Private — Organizer-Only
Community feedback is never visible to the public or to other athletes. Responses are hidden from everyone except you as the event organizer. This serves two important purposes:
Prevents groupthink — each person reviewing a video does so independently, without being influenced by what others have flagged. This makes the signal far more reliable
Prevents targeted abuse — athletes cannot see who flagged them or what was said, protecting the process from competitive manipulation or personal grudges
Think of it as a private crowd-sourced audit that only you can see.
Why This Changes Your Review Process
Competition Corner already gives you two priority signals in your scoring dashboard — an athlete's workout rank and their overall rank — to help you decide which scores to review first. Community Video Review adds a powerful third signal: community concern.
A submission flagged by multiple independent reviewers as a movement standards infraction should jump to the top of your review queue. A submission that multiple reviewers mark as "Performed as Prescribed" can likely be deprioritised. This layered approach means your staff spend their limited time on the submissions that genuinely need scrutiny — not working through clean videos from start to finish.
How to Enable It
Navigate to Scoring Setup > Online Score Submission Options
Check Show Video Link on Leaderboard
Check Allow Community Feedback
Save your settings
Both settings need to be enabled — video links must be visible on the leaderboard for community members to be able to watch and review them.
Keeping Feedback Honest
Several safeguards are in place to ensure community feedback is meaningful and trustworthy:
Account required — every person providing feedback must have a Competition Corner account. Anonymous feedback is not accepted, ensuring every response is tied to a real registered user
One response per account — each account can only submit feedback once per submission, preventing coordinated mass-flagging from individuals or groups
Responses are independent — because feedback results are hidden from the community, each reviewer gives their honest assessment without being swayed by what others have already flagged
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