Categories and scorecards

Your organization's library: every category submissions can be entered in, every award those submissions can be considered for, and every scorecard judges can be given. One library, shared by all of your festivals and every season they run.

This screen is now a working screen for organization owners: you can create, edit, duplicate, archive and restore categories, create, duplicate, archive and restore scorecards, attach scorecards to categories, create, edit, duplicate, archive and restore award categories, import categories and awards from FilmScorecard's default list — and choose which categories and awards every new festival starts with — and every change saves. Writing what is inside a scorecard happens on its own screen, the Scorecard Builder, reached from here — see Building a scorecard. Managing an award's eligible categories happens on the award's own page — see Award categories. Staff members see the same screen read-only. One link is still waiting for a later release, and What does not work yet names it.

Finding the screen

Categories and scorecards sits in the left navigation of every admin screen, in the organization group alongside Overview, Inbox, Judges directory and Organization settings. It is live on every screen, so you can reach it from a season's dashboard or from anywhere else.

At the bottom of the same navigation, this screen also carries a Festivals list — one row per festival, each with an amber number when something there needs attention, and the quickest way from the library back into a festival's own season. It lists only festivals that already have a season, so its count can read lower than the festival count in the top bar. You can put the list in the order you want; see Your festivals list. Which season each row opens is the one the festival is starred on, or its newest when nothing is starred.

Its address is:

/org/<organization>/categories

There are three tabs — Categories, Awards and Scorecards, in that order — each showing how many active things it holds. The two later tabs have their own addresses, /org/<organization>/categories?tab=awards and /org/<organization>/categories?tab=scorecards, so you can link to either or bookmark it, and reloading keeps you where you were.

Each tab keeps its own search, filters, sort and selection — but only while you stay on it. Switching tabs starts the other tabs fresh, and coming back starts this one fresh too, so tick your rows and finish the job before you switch.

Who can change the library

• Organization owners get everything this guide describes, including Import from default list.
• Staff members see the library read-only: no New buttons, no import button, no checkboxes, no row menus. On the Scorecards tab they keep one button, Preview questions, so they can read any scorecard. A staff member who opens a Scorecard Builder address reads that screen too, without any way to change it, and the same is true of an award's own page.
• Someone whose access is limited to a single festival or season can read all three tabs, including Awards, and change none of them — see Who can change awards.

Everybody who can read the library reads the same figures. The two default pay columns and the DEFAULT tags are shown to every member of your organization, not only to owners — what is gated is changing them.

If a change is attempted without owner access, it is refused with "You do not have permission to change this library." — nothing saves.

The three scorecard slots

Every category holds three scorecard slots:

A category can only be judged when both the creative and the technical slot are filled. An empty press kit slot is a choice, not a problem, and never counts against a category.

The creative and technical slots are also the two a category can be paid for: a season pays a technical rate and a creative rate per scorecard filed, starting from the defaults on the category itself. A press kit is never paid, because no judge is ever assigned one. See Judge pay.

Reading the Categories tab

Each row is one category:

• Its name, with a small line underneath: its permanent short id, and its length when it has one — CAT-1006, max 10 min, CAT-1042, min 61 pages, CAT-1008, 31–120 min — or the id alone when there is no length. Film categories are measured in minutes, screenplays in pages; see The length. The id is given when the category is created and never changes, so it is safe to quote in an email.
  • A small indigo DEFAULT tag sits on that same line when this category is in the set every new festival starts with. See What a new festival starts with.
• Type: a pill reading Film or Screenplay. A category created as an episode in an earlier release still reads Episode here: it is measured in minutes, no Type filter matches it, and its edit form shows a third greyed-out Episode card beside Film and Screenplay.
• The three slots, side by side. A filled slot shows the scorecard's name and version, for example Press Kit v1. A missing creative or technical slot is amber and reads Missing. An empty press kit slot is a dashed outline reading Not used.
• Technical and Creative: the category's default judge pay, one figure each, as $8.00. See The two pay columns.
• Festivals: how many of your festivals currently use this category, as "1 festival" or "4 festivals". In the Archived view this column shows the archive date instead, as "Archived 12 Mar 2026".
• The three slots are clickable (owners only, active rows): a chip opens the scorecard picker for that one slot on that one row. See Attaching scorecards.
• The three-dot menu at the end of the row (owners only) with the row's actions: Edit, Duplicate, Attach scorecard, and Archive.

When any slot is empty (creative, technical or press kit), the whole row is tinted amber. Archived categories are never tinted.

A library with no categories at all shows an owner FilmScorecard's preset categories in place of the empty table, to tick and import — see On an empty library tab. Anybody else reads "No categories yet."

The two pay columns

Technical and Creative sit between the scorecard slots and Festivals, and they show the library default for this category — what a season starts paying a judge, per scorecard filed, the moment the category is attached to it.

• They are read-only here. The figures are edited inside the category's own form, which is where a category is defined — open Edit, or set them when you create it.
• $0.00 is written plainly, with no warning and no count line. At library level a zero legitimately means "price this per season", and there is no volunteer mode at this level. The warning about unpriced categories belongs to a season and stays on the season screen — see Judge pay.
• They are a starting point, not a price. A season takes its own copy at attach; changing a default here never reprices a season that already exists.
• They repeat the words on the slot columns to their left, which name the same two judging roles. The slot column says which scorecard is attached; the pay column says what filing it is worth.
• The Archived view shows them too, quietly. Archiving means "do not offer this for new attachments", never "forget its numbers".

Both columns sort. See Searching, filtering and sorting.

The categories that cannot be judged

A category cannot be judged while its creative or technical slot is empty. A missing press kit does not stop judging, but the library still flags it. Two places count these, and both count your whole organization's active categories, not the rows you happen to be looking at:

• The amber pill beside the title, reading for example "4 categories missing scorecards". It appears on the Categories tab and counts every active category with any empty slot, press kit included. Press it to turn on the Cannot be judged and No press kit filters together, which shows exactly those rows; press it again to turn both off.
• The amber number on the Categories and scorecards row in the left navigation, visible from every admin screen. It counts only the categories that cannot be judged, so a press kit gap alone never raises it.

Filtering, searching or loading more rows never changes either number. Archived categories are not counted. When nothing is missing, each one disappears completely. There is no "0" to read: no badge means nothing needs you.

A category created from an import's category picker — "Create "<name>" as a new category", on step 3 of a file import or in the Categories block of the FilmFreeway tab in Settings, under the name it came with or one you typed — arrives with your technical and press kit scorecards attached and its creative slot empty, so it is one of these until you attach a creative scorecard. See Importing submissions.

Searching, filtering and sorting

The toolbar above the table:

• The search box matches a category's name or its CAT- id, so searching for 1042 finds CAT-1042.
• Scorecard filters by slot state: Cannot be judged, Missing creative, Missing technical, No press kit, or Creative and technical attached. Tick as many as you like — a row matches if it fits any of them.
• Type filters to Film or Screenplay — tick one or both.
• Status switches the whole table between the Active and Archived views — see Archiving and restoring.

There is no filter for the default set. The DEFAULT tags on the rows are how you read it.

Every option in a filter shows a live count of how many rows it would match. A Clear filters link appears as soon as any filter is set. If nothing matches, the table shows "No categories match." with the line "Nothing matches the current search and filters." and its own Clear filters button.

Every column heading is a sort button. Click once to sort by that column, click again to reverse it. Sorting by a scorecard column puts the categories missing that slot first — in both directions — so the gaps are always at the top. The footer names the current sort: "Showing 14 of 73, sorted by name", with "(reversed)" added after a second click and "matching" added while a search or filter is on.

Sorting by Technical or Creative sorts by the money, and the footer says so — "sorted by technical pay", "sorted by creative pay". Reversing reverses the figures and nothing else: categories on the same rate always stay in name order, so a descending sort does not list every $8.00 category from Z to A.

The table shows the first 14 rows. Load 40 more reveals the next batch, and the button names the real number when fewer than 40 are left ("Load 19 more"). When it runs out, the button goes away.

Changing the search, a filter or the Status view clears any selection you had — loading more rows does not.

On a narrow window the table scrolls sideways rather than restacking, with the heading row pinned to the top and the checkbox and Category columns pinned to the left, so the two pay columns slide under a name you can still read.

Importing from the default list

Import from default list sits in the Categories tab's toolbar, beside + New category, for owners. It opens FilmScorecard's ready-made list — 73 categories, each with its own creative scorecard, and 28 awards — and brings whatever you tick into your library:

• Each category arrives judgeable: its own creative scorecard, copied with every question, in the creative slot, and your Film Technical or Screenplay Technical and your Press Kit in the other two.
• It arrives with the DEFAULT tag, with default judge pay already set — $2.00 a scorecard for a short category and $4.00 for any other, technical and creative alike — a fresh CAT- id and no festivals.
• Anything you already hold is left out of the list, whether you imported it or wrote a category of the same name yourself. Only an archived one still shows, greyed out, as "Archived in your library".

The dialog, the awards half and every rule behind it are in Importing from the default list.

Creating a category

1. Choose + New category in the toolbar of the Categories tab.
2. Enter a Name. The Create button stays greyed until you do.
3. Pick a Type: Film ("Video file or link") or Screenplay ("PDF upload"). Choose carefully — the type cannot be changed after the category is created.
4. Write a Description. It is "Shown to submitters on the entry form and to judges above the scorecard."
5. Optionally set a length. The row is headed Length (minutes) for a film category and Length (pages) for a screenplay, marked Optional, and holds two boxes — Min and Max — with the unit printed after them. Fill in either, both, or neither: see The length.
6. Optionally set Default technical pay and Default creative pay — what a judge is paid per scorecard filed, on any season this category is attached to. Leaving either blank means 0.00. See Judge pay.
7. Leave Start new festivals with this ticked, or untick it. It starts ticked, and its line reads "Applies when a festival is created. Seasons of festivals that already exist are not affected." See What a new festival starts with.
8. Choose Create category.

The footer of the dialog reminds you: "Scorecards are attached after the category exists." A brand-new category has all three slots empty, so it appears with the amber "Missing creative and technical scorecards, cannot be judged." line until you attach its scorecards.

If the name is already taken, the Name field says "That name is already in use. Choose another." — pick a different one and save again.

The length

A category's length is a range with two optional ends:

Each box takes a whole number above zero, or nothing at all. Anything else — 0, a decimal, text — is refused with "Enter a whole number greater than zero." under the row, and a minimum above the maximum with "Min can't be above max."; nothing is saved until you fix it. The unit is never typed: it follows the category's type, so the same numbers read as minutes on a film category and as pages on a screenplay.

The length is information, not a rule. The helper under the row says so: "Shown with the category. Submissions are not checked against it. Leave blank for no limit." It is printed on this table, on a season's Categories tab and its attach dialog, and in the default-list import dialog — and nothing anywhere in FilmScorecard compares a submission's running time or page count against it. A film over the maximum is imported, listed, judged and scored exactly like one under it.

Editing a category

Open the row's three-dot menu and choose Edit. The same dialog opens prefilled, with the category's CAT- id in the header, and an amber notice that states exactly what your save will do:

Used by 2 festivals. Name, description and length changes appear everywhere as soon as you save.

You can change the name, the description, the length, the two Default pay amounts, and whether new festivals start with this. The Type cards are shown greyed out and cannot be changed — a category's type is permanent. If a category was created with the wrong type, create a new category with the right type and archive the old one. (Duplicate is not the fix: a copy keeps its source's type.)

A length change reaches seasons already running the category, open or not. A season's Categories tab reads the length from the library every time it loads — there is no per-season copy — so change max 30 min to max 40 min here and every season shows max 40 min the next time somebody opens it. The name is the one thing a season keeps its own copy of; see A season's categories and awards.

Changing a default pay does not reprice any season that has already attached this category — it is where the next attach starts. A season that wants the new number uses Reset pay to library on its own settings screen; see Judge pay.

Changing the default-set checkbox does not change any festival either. It is read when a festival is created and at no other moment.

Renaming an imported category does not make the default list offer it again. The library remembers where it came from, so it still reads "In your library" in the import dialog.

Duplicating a category

The three-dot menu's Duplicate opens a confirmation first:

The copy starts on no festival and copies slot attachments, not scorecards.

The Name of the copy field is prefilled with "NAME copy" (then "NAME copy 2" and so on when that is taken) — change it if you like, then choose Duplicate category. The copy appears in the Active view with a fresh CAT- id, the same type, description, length (both ends), default pay and default-set membership, the same three slot assignments, and no festivals. Duplicating from the Archived view works the same way: the copy is always born active.

Selecting categories and bulk actions

Ticking any row's checkbox brings up one bar, at the bottom of the screen, reading "6 categories selected".

• Hover a row and its row number becomes the checkbox; the whole cell is the click target.
• The checkbox in the header row selects every category on the page when nothing is selected. Once anything is selected it shows a dash, and pressing it clears the whole selection.
• Clear selection empties the selection and closes the picker.
• The selection survives Load 40 more, but changing the search, a filter, the Status view or the tab clears it.

The bar's actions:

There is no bulk way to set pay: rates are per category, in the category's own form.

Attaching scorecards

There are two ways in, for two different jobs.

One category, one slot: click its chip. Clicking a row's slot chip — + Add Creative, or a filled chip you want to replace — opens the picker right there, attached to that chip. It changes that one slot on that one category and does not touch whatever you had selected. A row's three-dot menu Attach scorecard opens the same panel on the creative chip.

Several categories at once: select them. Tick the rows you want and use Attach scorecard to N categories on the bottom bar. That picker floats above the bar and attaches to every selected row in one commit.

Inside the picker:

• The destination slot. In the bulk picker the type tabs are the destination slot: choosing Technical means the attach lands in the technical slot, so it can never overwrite creative work. Each tab shows how many scorecards of that type you have, and switching tabs clears the search and any open preview, because the previous choice belonged to a different slot. The chip picker has no tabs — the chip you clicked already chose the slot, and its title says which: "Choose a creative scorecard".
• The list offers your active scorecards only — archived scorecards are never in it. Each row shows the scorecard's name and version, in full — a long name wraps rather than being cut off — and its question count ("12 questions, 1 to 10"). The first scorecard in the tab starts selected; pick another with its radio button. How widely a scorecard is used is in its Preview footer, not in the list.
• Preview opens the scorecard's real questions, read-only, numbered 01, 02 and so on. Its footer totals them: "5 questions, 1 to 10 each, 50 points total. Used by 52 categories." Use this scorecard picks it for the attach and then reads "Selected for this attach". Read the "1 to 10" wording with care — see Previewing a scorecard's questions.
• The footer carries the warning to read before you commit — whether the attach is about to replace something. The bulk picker counts: "4 of the 6 selected categories already have a technical scorecard. Attaching replaces it for future seasons. Seasons already created keep the versions they started with." The chip picker names the one category instead: "Best Feature already has a creative scorecard. Attaching replaces it…". Either way only the slot you are filling changes; the other two are left alone. For judging, the "future seasons" part is not what happens — see What an attach does to judging already under way.
• Attach Name v1 to 6 categories commits it — or just Attach Name v1 in the chip picker, where there is only one category to attach to. The picker closes and the table shows the new chip straight away.
• Cancel closes the picker. Your selection, if you had one, is untouched either way.

Every number in the bulk picker is counted from the categories you selected, not from the rows on screen. A type tab with no scorecards in it says "No creative scorecards yet." and the attach button is greyed out.

If the scorecard you picked was archived by a colleague while your picker was open, the commit is refused with "That scorecard is no longer available. Refresh the page and try again." — nothing is changed.

Changing a category's technical scorecard has one pay consequence worth knowing: a technical review is priced from the category whose technical scorecard is the one being filed, so swapping a scorecard while a judge holds a film can leave that scorecard recorded as unpriced. See A film in more than one category.

What an attach does to judging already under way

Seasons read a category's scorecards from this library as they go. So an attach reaches every season that runs the category — seasons judging right now included — the moment you commit it, whatever the picker's footer says about future seasons. Nobody is told.

Archiving and restoring categories

Archive from a row's three-dot menu, or select several and use the bulk Archive. Every archive is confirmed first, and the dialog states the consequences plainly:

The category moves to the Archived view. Nothing is deleted, and you can restore it at any time.

with its two facts: "Seasons already open keep everything as it is." and "The category is not offered in new season setup until restored."

Nothing is deleted, and nothing downstream moves. Archiving never empties a slot and never detaches a festival — the category simply leaves the Active view, stops being offered when a new season is set up, and waits. An archived category is also left out of the attach picker on a season's settings screen, and out of the "of N in the library" count beside it — a season that already runs the category is not disturbed. It also drops out of the eligible list of every award category that named it, without being removed from those awards — see When a submission category is archived.

And an archived category is never given to a new festival, whether or not it carries the DEFAULT tag — see Archived rows.

It keeps its default pay, and that still counts. Archiving means "do not offer this for new attachments", never "forget its numbers": a season that attached the category before it was archived still resets to those defaults. It keeps its DEFAULT tag too, so restoring it puts it back in the set without anybody re-ticking a box.

An archived category still counts as in your library for the default list: its row in the import dialog reads "Archived in your library" and cannot be imported again. Restore it here instead.

Switch the Status filter to Archived to see them: muted rows, the archive date where the festival count was, and Restore on each row. Restore is confirmed too:

The category returns to the active library.

with "Slots come back as saved, an empty slot still blocks judging." and "No festival changes until its next season." Everything comes back exactly as it was, including its place in any award that had it.

If a colleague archived or restored the same rows moments before you, nothing goes wrong — rows already in the right state are simply left alone.

The Awards tab

The middle tab holds your award categories — Best Original Music, Best Editing, Audience Choice. They are their own records, not submission categories: an award carries a name, a description and the set of submission categories eligible to enter it, and it has no scorecards and no type of its own. Its Applies to pill is worked out from the types of its eligible categories rather than typed in.

The table behaves like the Categories tab — search, filters, sort, tickable rows, a bulk bar, an Active and an Archived view, confirmations on every change — and each award has a full page of its own for its name, description and eligible categories. It carries the same DEFAULT tags and the same Set as default / Remove default buttons, because a new festival is born with awards as well as categories, and the same Import from default list button, which opens the import dialog on its Awards tab. An owner whose Awards tab is empty sees FilmScorecard's preset awards in its place, the same way the Categories tab offers its presets.

Everything about it is in Award categories. Which awards a particular season runs, and what its add-on costs, are set on that season's settings screen — see A season's categories and awards. What a season then does with those awards — its pools, its winners — lives on the season's own screens: Awards and Award pools.

The Scorecards tab

The Scorecards tab is a table like the Categories tab, sorted by slot (creative, then technical, then press kit) until you sort it yourself:

• Scorecard: the name with its version ("Press Kit v1"), with the scorecard's description on one line underneath. A scorecard with no description shows its name alone — no line at all. The description is written in the Scorecard Builder — see The description.
• Slot: Creative, Technical or Press kit — which slot it fills.
• Type: Film or Screenplay — what kind of submission it is written for.
• Questions: how many questions it holds.
• Used by: "Used by 8 categories" — or "Used by 0 categories", shown dimmed, for a scorecard attached to nothing. In the Archived view this column shows the archive date.

The toolbar has the same search plus Slot, Type and Status filters. Search matches the name and version together, so "v1" is a search you can make. Every column heading sorts.

There is no DEFAULT tag on this tab, and no import button. Scorecards reach a festival through the categories that hold them, and a creative scorecard comes from the default list with its category — there is no importing one on its own.

Each row's three-dot menu offers Edit scorecard, Duplicate scorecard, Preview questions and Archive scorecard; the Archive item carries its own one-line consequence — "8 categories keep it until you change them." or "No category uses it, so nothing changes downstream." In the Archived view the menu is shorter: Restore scorecard and Duplicate scorecard.

Scorecards carry no money. A rate belongs to the category, not to the scorecard attached to it, so two categories sharing one technical scorecard can pay different amounts for it.

Renaming or archiving Film Technical, Screenplay Technical or Press Kit changes what an import attaches. A category imported from the default list takes your active scorecard of that name, or your only active one of that kind, or nothing — see A category.

Creating a scorecard

+ New scorecard in the toolbar asks for a Name, a Type (Creative, Technical or Press Kit) and a Submission type (Film or Screenplay). Neither type can be changed afterwards. The new scorecard is created with no questions at all and opens straight into the Scorecard Builder, where you write them — see Creating a new scorecard.

Previewing a scorecard's questions

Preview questions opens the scorecard's real questions in a read-only dialog — the same numbered list the attach picker shows, with the totals line in the footer. This is the one action staff members keep.

This dialog and the attach picker were written when every question was scored 1 to 10, so they describe every scorecard that way: "1 to 10" beside each question, and a points total of ten per question. Since scorecards can now be authored freely, that wording is only accurate for a creative scorecard whose questions are all 1-to-10 scales. For the true picture of any scorecard — response types, points and running total — open it in the Scorecard Builder, or read its list of questions here and ignore the scale wording.

Duplicating a scorecard

Duplicate scorecard confirms first:

The copy starts a new lineage at version 1 with the same questions, used by 0 categories.

The name is prefilled "NAME copy"; change it if you like and choose Duplicate scorecard. The copy is born active, attached to nothing, at version 1 — a fresh start, not a new version of the original. Every question is copied in order with everything on it: its response type or its points, its options, its guidance and its Show on Scorecard setting, along with the scorecard's description, its submission type and its two written-feedback settings.

Duplicating from this list leaves you on the list. To make a copy and start editing it in one move, use Duplicate inside the Scorecard Builder instead, which lands you inside the copy.

Archiving and restoring scorecards

Archiving a scorecard works like archiving a category: confirmed first, nothing deleted, nothing downstream moves. The dialog says it in two facts: "Categories that hold it keep it in their slot until you change them." and "It is no longer offered in the attach picker until restored." Scores already given are kept.

So a category whose technical slot holds an archived scorecard can still be judged — the slot is filled, and that is what counts. The only real effect is that the scorecard leaves the attach picker, so it cannot be attached anywhere new until you restore it. Restore returns it "to the active library and the attach picker", exactly as saved.

An archived scorecard also stops being editable: opening its builder address shows the whole scorecard read-only under an amber notice, with Duplicate as the only action. Restore it here first, or duplicate it and edit the copy.

Editing a scorecard

Edit scorecard opens the Scorecard Builder, where you write the questions themselves. What happens first depends on how widely the scorecard is used:

• Used by nothing: the builder opens straight away.
• Used by one or more categories: a dialog marked Shared scorecard opens first, stating the size of the change in real numbers — "Press Kit v1 is used by 73 categories." — with its two panels: future seasons "Pick up the edited scorecard when the season is created", seasons already created "Keep Press Kit v1 exactly as it is today, including scores already given." Then choose:
  • Edit for all 73 opens the builder on that scorecard. Your edits reach all 73 categories, for their future seasons.
  • Duplicate and edit a copy creates "Press Kit v1 copy" — a fresh version 1 attached to nothing — and opens the builder on the copy, so the original is untouched. Attaching the copy where you want it is a separate step.
  • Cancel closes the dialog and changes nothing.

What does not work yet

Everything above is real, with one exception: the small New scorecard link inside the attach picker — either picker — does nothing. Use + New scorecard in the Scorecards tab toolbar instead.

Awards are fully live, here and on the season side: which awards a season runs is set on the season's settings screen, and each award's pool and winners live on the season's Awards and Award pools screens. No price is set in this library — an award's add-on price belongs to a season, and nothing collects it yet. See Prices and season lists are not here.

Judge pay is the one number this library does hold — a default per category, now shown in two columns on the table and edited in the category's own form, which every season copies when it attaches one. It is still only a number: nothing charges or pays anybody. See Judge pay.

Of the neighbouring navigation rows, Judges directory is live for everyone in your organization (see Judges directory) and Organization settings is live for owners and org admins (see Organization settings). The Festivals list further down the same navigation is live too: every row in it opens a festival.

What your organization starts with

A new organization's library holds three scorecards and nothing else: the shared Film Technical, Screenplay Technical and Press Kit, each at version 1 with all its questions. The Scorecards tab lists the three, each "Used by 0 categories". The Categories and Awards tabs hold nothing: an owner finds FilmScorecard's presets there in place of the empty tables, and anybody else reads "No categories yet." and "No awards yet."

From there the library is built two ways, and you can mix them:

• Import from the default list. FilmScorecard's ready-made 73 categories and 28 awards, taken as many or as few at a time as you like. Each imported category brings its own creative scorecard and is attached to the three shared ones, so it can be judged from the start. See Importing from the default list.
• Write your own, with + New category and + New scorecard.

The scorecards you start with, and the creative scorecards the default list brings, are uniform inside: every creative question is a 1-to-10 scale, every technical item is worth 4 points, every press kit item 2, none carries guidance, and none is hidden from the submitter's scorecard. All of that is yours to change in the Scorecard Builder.

Judge pay comes with them. Every category imported from the default list arrives with Default technical pay and Default creative pay already set: $2.00 a scorecard for a short category — a film of at most 30 minutes, a screenplay of at most 60 pages — and $4.00 for any other, including one with no maximum. A season that attaches it starts paying those figures. Seasons start Paid; change the figures here or on the season, or switch the season to Volunteer. See Judge pay.

Categories you imported before the default list carried pay were given the same figures, provided both of their rates were still at $0.00. One whose pay you had set yourself, and one you wrote yourself, kept what it had — and no season's rates moved, because a season keeps the rates it copied at attach.

The copy is yours. Category ids are numbered fresh for your organization, starting at CAT-1001, award ids at AWD-2001, and nothing you change here reaches any other organization's library — or the default list.

If your organization was created earlier, it was given the whole list of categories and scorecards at creation, and keeps them. The import dialog leaves out every category it already holds by name, and its awards can still be imported — they link to those categories straight away.

What a later festival is born with is the set you curate here. Creating a festival attaches every category and award that is in the default set and not archived — see What a new festival starts with. Creating a season inside a festival that already exists is a different thing: it copies the previous season's own line-up and never reads this library at all.