The Special Awards supported by the website include:


  • daVinci awards
  • Renaissance awards
  • Spirit of DI awards
  • Project Outreach Torch Bearer awards


You can find the Special Awards wizard on the Officials menu using the awards menu pick .


The creation and approval of special awards involves:


  • an official initially drafts the award
  • the official submits the award for approval by the ICMs
  • the ICMs review submitted awards, approve or decline each one
    • an award approved by the ICMs is forwarded to the Program Directors
  • the Program Directors review each icm-approved award and make the final decision


As a part of the Awards process, each challenge level goes through a series of states:


    1. Open: officials can enter awards
    2. Apprs-done: no new awards can be drafted, ICMs and Program Directors can finish their approval
    3. Done: the award process is complete


Both the ICMs and the Program Directors can control the state of individual challenge levels.  Setting a challenge level to Apprs-done stops any more awards for that challenge-level being submitted.  Setting a challenge level to Done tells the folks running the Closing Ceremony that the Special Awards process has ended for that challenge level.



Note: both Events and the Resource Area have an awards process.  Regional and Affiliate tournaments use the Resource Area process.  Global Finals uses the process described here.  The primary difference is that Globals has 2 levels of approval (first the ICMs and then the Program Directors).  Make sure you are using the process for your tournament.