Sanction My Contest
What is Contest Sanctioning?
By having EuroQ sanction your contest, you can benefit from our contest proven contest structure, rules, judging & scoring system and procedures. You will also benefit by representitives from EuroQ running your contest to our structure and standards to ensure your event has the integrity it deserves.
What Santioning Means For Your Contest
Contest Structure
Our contest structure blends the consistency or more traditional contests with the flexibility to tailor the rounds and overall competition. You can theme the rounds or the contest, base them around specific ingredients, and flex the amount of freedom teams have to interpret the rules and add their own creativity.
Maybe you want a contest focussed on traditional barbecue cooking, or maybe one geared more towards fine dining cookery over fire and smoke. EuroQ is flexible enough to fit your contest needs.
Judging and Scoring
EuroQ contests benefit from our well established four point weighted scoring system. This combined with our double blind turn-in procedures and a judging process that allows your contest judging to be a spectacle at your event.
Our contest judging can be encorporated as part of your event with the freedom to establish your own round turn-in times and windows and the specticle of public judging if wanted.
Contest Rep'
Once sanctioned, your contest will be assigned a contest representative (rep'). They will liaise with your teams and judges before the event, manage the contest during the event to EuroQ processes and standards and produce the certified results.
Contest Sanctioning
How to get your contest sanctioned
Stage 1 - Complete our contest sanctioning request form, including all the details you know about your contest at the time of submission
Stage 2 - We will review the details including the location and date of the contest to ensure we minimise contests impacting on each other.
Stage 3 - Assuming all is OK, we will issue you with your sanctioning approval and an invoice for the one off sanctioning fee.
Stage 4 - Once we have recived your one off sanctioning fee, your contest will be officially sanctioned and be added to our website. If you are using our website for teams to register, they will be able to do so at this point. Judges will also be able to register via our website at this point.
Stage 5 - Following the event there will be a post-contest invoice to cover the fees associated with contest representitive travel and team administration.
You will get
Use of our proprietary contest structure
- EuroQ freestyle contest format
- EuroQ contest standard rules
- Contest rules specific to your event that tailor it to your requirements
- EuroQ turn-in processes
- EuroQ judging process
- EuroQ four point weighted scoring system
Our Support
- Initial engagement to produce your contest specific rules
- Use of our website to register teams and judges
- Promotion of your event to our community
- Qualification to invitational contest (if availiable)
Contest Representitive (Rep')
- Liaise with teams and judges before competition
- Run required team and judges meetings at the contest
- Manage contest adminstration at the event
- Manage turn-in and judging process to ensure adherence to EuroQ processes and standards
- Collate scores and calculate results
Contest Collateral
- A bespoke set of contest rules to be used in conjuction with EuroQ standard rules (.pdf and on our website)
- Scorecards for use by judges
What you will need to provide
- Ability to meet and adhere to the requirements of EuroQ around contest and judging location which broadly include
- Team area size, judging location and turn-in location
- Access to toilets and hand wash for judges
- Access to electricity for contest representatives
- Accommodation for contest representatives (the number of nights will be agreed as part of the sanctioning request process)
- Contest disposables - Adequate disposable plates, bowls and cutlery
- Judging Equipment - Adequate paper napkins, water and unflavoured crackers
- Refuse sacks
Cost
The following are our current sanctioning fees payable by the contest organiser
EuroQ is a non profit organisation and as such we aim to keep costs as low as possible.
Due prior to the contest
- One off (non- refundable) sanctioning fee
- £200 (€230) one day contest
- £300 (€345) two day contest
Invoiced following contest
- Per team administration fee
- £20 (€23) per team up to four rounds during a one day contest -
- £30 (€35) per team up to eight rounds during a two day contest
- Guest judges charges
- £20 (€23) per guest judge per round (limit of one guest judge per table per round)
- Contest representative travel (not including accommodation)
- £0.45 (€0.55) per mile driven in personal vehicle plus any train, ferry, flight and car hire cost
- Bookings for train, ferry, flights or hire cars may require booking is made directly by the contest organiser prior to the event. Specific requirements will be agreed during the sanctioning process
Judges fees payable directly by judges
Unlike some sanctioning bodies we don't charge an annual fee for judges to be members. We do require that judges register directly with us.
- One time fee payable for new judges (one of the following)
- One off training and registration fee £50 (€56) includes contest registration fee
- One off registration fee - £15 (€17) for unregistered experienced EuroQ freestyle judges
- Contest registration fee - £5 (€6) one day contest / £7 (€8) two day contest