A leaderboard has up to five columns: Entry Title, Award, Project Score, Public Score and Juror's Rating. Two of them, Project Score and Juror's Rating, are removed completely when every entry on that board scores zero for them. So a missing column is not an empty column: it means there is nothing to show, for every entry, not just yours.
What each column is
- Entry Title. The work itself. Selecting it opens the project, journal or publication in a new tab.
- Award. The award that entry received, with its icon. Empty for entries that did not place. The table is grouped by this column by default, so awarded entries sit at the top; within each award tier, entries are ordered by Public Score, highest first.
- Project Score. The community rating on the attached work, given by other members. Nothing to do with the jury.
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Public Score. The public voting result, and the column most often misread. It is not a like count. It combines all three signals:
Public Score = (Juror's Rating x 5) + (Project Score x 3) + (Likes x 0.2)Likes are counted in full, with no cap. Because a community rating is worth five times a like, an entry with fewer likes but a strong Project Score can and does rank above the most-liked entry on the board. If your entry has the highest like count and is not first, this is why. 5. Juror's Rating. The average of the jury's scores for that entry.
Every column except Entry Title can be sorted by selecting its header.
How Juror's Rating is worked out
It is a flat mean. Every criterion score from every juror who evaluated that entry is added up and divided by how many scores there were. No criterion counts more than another, and a juror who scored on more criteria does not therefore weigh more. How the jury average is calculated goes into it properly.
Why the Juror's Rating column can be absent
The scores counted here come from the jurors attached to that competition's jury section. If nothing is attached there, no scores are gathered under that competition, every entry sits at zero, and the column is dropped. The table then shows community numbers only, without saying why.
That happens more often than you would expect, and it does not mean the competition went unjudged. It means the panel was never published on the competition page. See Why a competition's Jurors page can be empty.
The Project Score column disappears the same way when no entry on that board has been rated by the community.
Which entries are on the board
Approved entries, and entries marked perfect. Anything still unreviewed, rejected or withdrawn is left off, so the leaderboard is usually shorter than the number of registrations the competition took.
Reading it on a narrow screen
The table becomes a set of cards. The same figures are there, arranged differently, and the jury figure is hidden on the cards under the same condition that removes the column on the table.
You have to be signed in
Any UNI account opens a leaderboard, including a free one. It does not check your plan, or whether you entered. See Who can see a competition leaderboard.