Foundations of MPS Judging
How the sport works, what your seat evaluates, and the integrity rules that protect every result.
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Lessons
What Music Performance Sports is
Two Players face off in a head-to-head music performance. Each performance is evaluated on published criteria, and the result is decided by applying the rubric — not by popularity, streaming counts, or crowd noise.
Your seat
Every official is seated into one scoring category and scores only that category:
- Delivery — how the performance is executed
- Song Quality — the strength of the song itself
- Radio Readiness — commercial and broadcast viability
- Stage Presence — live, in-person postseason play only
What you are not doing
You are not ranking the two Players against each other. You are measuring one performance against a fixed standard. If both performances are strong, both can score well; the standings decide the rest.
Score the work in front of you, in your own category, one performance at a time.
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