Official Beatmapping Contest Support Updates

Requests for tournament/contest official support (under which news posts fall under) need to be requested at least a month in advance. This allows to schedule them in advance and help with preparations and to manage any internal process required to approve the requested news posts.
Defined expectations on what the news posts should cover. The hosts and/or users responsible for the news post must make sure these expectations are followed for the posts to be approved and reviewed in a timely manner.
Contests NOT eligible for contest points can still request for news post coverage. The contests would still need to comply with the Official support criteria to be eligible for a news post.
Badges will never be approved until after the conclusion of the contest. These must be requested at most two months since the conclusion of a contest.

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Maxus

Nomination Assessment Team

Joined May 2014

September 12th update rationale

Standard deviation is now required to determine final scores. This ensures that a contest results will have a fair outcome, and that one judge's score will not disproportionately affect the end results. Exceptions will need to be emailed via tournaments@ppy.sh and discussed by the Contest Committee.
Prospective members looking to join the team must apply via email. The committee will hold an in-depth discussion on all applicants following the usual procedure. Users cannot be invited by any other means, and must send an email on their own accord.

RandomeLoL

Nomination Assessment Team

Joined September 2015

September 30th update rationale

Restricted users cannot be staff members in contests looking for official support. While this was implicitly enforced, there was no explicit rule akin to the tournament support guidelines. This update simply states that rule explicitly for hosts to be aware of the rule as enforced.

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