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To ensure the highest quality level of scoring and reliability of competition results the WorldCDF organization requires that any International Championship hosted by the WorldCDF and World Championships may only be scored by WorldCDF certified scoring personnel.

See overview of active Scoring personnel

Scoring Format
The WorldCDF scoring format has originally been based on the international Skater system. Some adjustments have been made to this system to accomodate usage for all different dance types within the WorldCDF program. For each division individual Judge reports are created which can be found in the Competition Results section of the WorldCDF website. These include the rules of scoring on both individual dance and overall placements. These reports are retained on our website during the calendar year. Overviews of final results and overall rankings are retained for longer term in the Archive section of the WorldCDF website.

Training and Certification of Scoring Personnel

• Level 1) Understanding and working with competition documentation, basic rules of scoring, scrutineering and support of level 2 or 3 certified scoring personnel.
• Level 2) Understanding and working with event schedule program, perform manual and automated scoring, escalation management, validating and approving medal sheets and finalizing competition scores.
• Level 3) Setting up event schedules, working with event directors and contest coordinators on planning and adjusting event schedules and scores during events when required, maintaining overall ranking and training of new scoring personnel.
  

Training will be performed during various international championships of the WorldCDF.

Testing and Examination
Level 1) will be tested by both written and verbal exam.
Level 2) will be tested by both written and verbal exam. During one international event the trainee must support during scoring, at least manually score 10 divisions flawless across all dance types, at least automated score 10 divisions flawless across all dance types and have these reviewed and agreed upon by the trainer. If not approved completely by the trainer, this session needs to be repeated successfully before continuing to the final phase. During a second international event the trainee must fully operate the scoring and produce all competition documentation, while being reviewed by the trainer. If not approved completely by the trainer, this session needs to be repeated successfully before being granted level 2) certification.
Level 3) will be tested by both written and verbal exam. A personal coaching program will be set-up with the trainer. After completion, the trainer must approve completely before being granted level 3) certification.

Experience and Retention of Certification
To ensure the WorldCDF scoring personnel remains completely up-to-date with scoring rules and systems and does not loose experience, the following retention criteria have been set-up:
To retain Level 1) certification, it  requires at least once a year active participation in the scoring of an international championship of the WorldCDF.
To retain Level 2) certification, it requires at least twice a year lead-scoring of an international championship of the WorldCDF.
To retain Level 3) certification, it requires at least three times a year full scheduling and scoring of an international championship of the WorldCDF.

Once certification is not retained for one year or more, the full training and examination needs to be performed again. At all times scoring personnel is required to be an active & paying member of the WorldCDF organization.

Transparancy
All names of participants in the training program and certified scoring personnel will be published on the WorldCDF website including their training and/or certification level. In this manner, all WorldCDF members will be able to validate and recognize the scoring personnel. Per event it is registered which scoring personnel was active at the event and by the end of each year retention of certification will be reviewed. In case of gross negligence, willful misconduct or proven inabilities, the WorldCDF Management Team has the right to recall any certification with immediate effect.