The countdown on your juror dashboard counts down to one date: the end date of the deadline attached to your evaluation round. That is the same date the server checks when you save a score, so the tile and the cutoff cannot disagree.
It is a display. It does not lock anything, it does not save anything for you, and it is not what closes your panel.
What the tile is showing you
The tile sits in the dashboard header, under the label Time Remaining.
- More than a day left is written as days and hours, under a day as hours and minutes, and in the last hour as minutes alone.
- It redraws once a minute, so it can sit up to a minute behind. It is not a second by second clock.
- Once the date passes, the tile stops being a timer and shows the competition's number of jurors instead, under the label Jurors.
A dashboard showing Jurors where a countdown used to be is not a broken tile. Nothing has been lost, and everything you saved is still stored against the entries.
Reaching zero on screen does not close the page you are on
If you leave a panel open across the cutoff, the tile changing does not disable the entry in front of you. Two checks decide whether you can still score, and both happen on the server:
- When you open an entry, the server says whether scoring is open on it. If it is not, the entry reads "Evaluation period ended on" with the date, and the slider and the remark box are disabled.
- When you save, the deadline is checked again and the save is refused with "The evaluation round has ended. Scoring is no longer allowed."
A juror count from the start means no deadline was set
If the tile never showed a countdown, your round has no deadline attached to it, so there is nothing to count. Report that rather than working around it: a round with no deadline cannot be scored at all, and saving is refused with "The evaluation round has no deadline configured". Ask the organizer to set the jury deadline.
The practice panel is the exception. Its deadline sits five years ahead by design, so its timer always reads a large number. See the demo competition.