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Judging & Awards Process

Updated 10 November, 2026

Many of the judges are invited and are former Stevie® Award winners. Other professionals apply to judge online and, if accepted, are assigned categories by Stevie Awards staff, based on their industry, function, and experience.

All entries are first reviewed by Stevie Awards staff to ensure that eligibility requirements are met, that entries are formatted properly in order to go forward to be judged, and that entries have been submitted in appropriate categories.

Determination of Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Winners

Judging of entries is conducted in one round to determine the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie® Award winners. Judges are recruited worldwide, apply to judge on the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards website, and are assigned to juries by Stevie Awards staff based on their industry, function, and experience.

Each entry is reviewed and rated by no fewer than five (5) volunteer judges who have been approved as qualified (by Stevie Awards staff) to judge those entries. All entries are viewed and rated at the judges’ convenience online. Rating is done on a scale of 1-10.

All entries that receive an average score of at least 8.0 out of a possible 10, regardless of category, are automatically conferred Stevie Award status. Entries with average scores of 7.75 – 7.99 may be conferred awards status at the discretion of Stevie Awards administration, but are not guaranteed awards placement.

Every category that has at least one qualifying entry (with a final average score of at least 8.0/10) will have at least one Gold Stevie Award winner. The qualifying entry with the highest average score in a category will be awarded the Gold Stevie Award. The top 45% of other qualifying entries will be accorded Silver Stevie status. The remaining 55% of qualifying entries will be accorded Bronze Stevie Award status.

Determination of Grand Stevie Award Winners

Five Grand Stevie Award winners will be selected and announced prior to the awards banquet. The organization that wins the most Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Awards will be presented with the Grand Stevie Award for Organization of the Year. The top-scoring nomination from each of the four nations that submitted the most entries will also receive Grand Stevie Award trophies.

The following changes are instituted for the 2027 edition of the awards:

  • All Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie winners in the competition will automatically receive complimentary e-certificates to commemorate their wins.
  • Gold Stevie Award winners will be accorded Gold Stevie Award trophies, whether or not they attend the awards ceremony. Gold Stevie winners who don’t attend the awards ceremony may choose to pay a shipping fee to be shipped their trophies (see the Terms & Conditions of Entry for the list of shipping fees.)
  • Silver and Bronze Stevie winners who attend the awards ceremony will be conferred Silver and Bronze medallions there. Silver and Bronze winners who do not attend the ceremony will not be entitled to Silver and Bronze medallions automatically. They may choose to purchase them in the Stevie Awards Store, instead choose to purchase Stevie Award trophies there, or choose neither option.

The veracity of claims made in entries may be audited. Any entry found to contain false or misleading information will be disqualified.

Beginning with the 2027 edition of the awards, all Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award winners will be able to choose to have their winning nominations published on the awards website, as a permanent commemoration of their win(s). Winners will be able to redact confidential information from those nominations before publication. Winners may choose to publish their winning nominations as-is, with redactions, or not at all.