An awards portal for nominations and judging.

The awards

The Sunshine Coast Sports Awards recognise athletes, teams, coaches, clubs, officials, volunteers and events across the Sunshine Coast and Noosa. They are backed by the grants programs of both councils.

What the site needed to do

An awards program is quiet for most of the year and then everything happens at once. It also has two very different groups using the same system: the public nominating someone they admire, and a judging panel that must not be swayed by any of it.

What we built

A nominator is usually a parent, a club secretary or a teammate. They use the site once, close to the deadline and often on a phone. The thirteen categories are set out plainly with the criteria for each, so they can find the right one without reading them all.

Judging sits behind a sign-in, apart from the public side. The panel is made up of experienced sports administrators from the councils and sporting bodies.

Between nomination periods the site says nominations are closed and points people to the categories for next year, so nobody fills in a form that goes nowhere.

After launch

We host and maintain it. The real test comes a year later, when nominations open again with a new committee and everything still has to work.

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