You are told by email, straight away, with the subject "You've been added as a juror for" followed by the competition name. A matching entry appears in your notification bell at the same moment. That first message confirms you are credited on the panel. It does not mean the entries are open to you yet, and the difference between those two things is what most juror questions turn out to be.
Three emails, in this order
- "You've been added as a juror for [competition]" arrives the moment the organizer attaches your account to the competition's jury panel. It links to your Evaluations page.
- "Your jury panel for [competition] is open" arrives when the organizer marks the shortlist complete. It carries the number of entries waiting and the jury deadline, or the words "To be announced" where no jury deadline has been set.
- The deadline reminders arrive about 72 hours and about 24 hours before the jury deadline, and only while you still have entries unscored. Jury reminder emails covers those.
There is no separate acceptance step and nothing to confirm. Being added is the invitation and the confirmation at once.
The first email confirms credit, not access
Being named on a competition's jury and being handed entries to score are two separate actions by the organizer. The first email is triggered by the first action only. Entries are handed out by adding you to an evaluation round inside the competition, which is a different screen and a different decision.
Until that second action is taken, your Evaluations page stays empty and the panel link reports "Evaluation chamber not found or access denied". Nothing is broken and there is nothing to retry.
The panel-opens email goes to the whole panel
When the shortlist is finalized, the "your jury panel is open" message is sent to every juror credited on that competition, without checking whether each one has been added to an evaluation round. So receiving it is not proof that you can get in.
Open the link in it the day it arrives rather than the week the deadline falls. If the panel refuses you, your juror dashboard is empty has the exact request to send the organizer and the reason it is the only thing that fixes it. Asking early matters, because scoring stops at the end of the evaluation round and the organizer is the only person who can move that date.
The message is sent only when at least one entry has reached the jury, so a silent panel usually means the shortlist has not been completed yet.
If none of these arrived
- Check which account was used. The assignment is made against one specific UNI account and the mail goes to the address on that account, so a second address of yours will show nothing.
- Check the notification bell. Every one of these emails is mirrored there, and the bell entry survives even when the mail is filtered or bounced.
- Check what is on your Evaluations page. If the only card is Demo: Architecture Design Challenge, that is the shared practice chamber, open to anyone. No email is ever sent for it, and its presence does not mean your competition failed to load.
What you can and cannot switch off
The "added as a juror" email is transactional. It carries no unsubscribe link and cannot be turned off, because it records a role you were given rather than a list you joined.
The panel-opens message and the deadline reminders travel on the Profile & Account Notifications list, which the notification settings page shows as not switchable. Their unsubscribe link does work, and it silences your other account notices at the same time.