How do I claim retroactive points?

December 27, 2016

If you are a new judge, wait until you have received notification that you have been assigned a Judge ID AND that the judge record web site has been updated before reviewing your judge record. We scan for retroactive points twice: when your judge record is initially created, and when your exam results are posted. Please do not contact us for retroactive points before these have occurred.

Experience points are recorded into a judge’s record only after an organizer files a completed Organizer Report. Once the BJCP receives the report, the IT Director records the experience points in the database.

To review your record at any time simply visit the BJCP Judge Record web application, accessible from the main BJCP web site. This requires login and you will need to know your BJCP ID Number and your web password (which you setup when you first create the account or if BJCP created your account – when you first time access your account). If you feel that you are missing points or that you were not promoted when you should have been, contact the IT Director to review your records.

Judges often contact the BJCP Staff to say that they are missing points. Often it is simply the case that their points have not caught up with their records. Once a competition is over, the organizer must fill out a report that includes all of the experience points to be awarded for that event. We request that this report be filed within three weeks of the competition, but sometimes it takes a bit longer.

Before contacting the IT Director, first verify that an organizer report has been submitted. Check the list of “submitted” and “delinquent” reports on the Database Reports section of the BJCP web site. If you notice that a report is submitted but you have not received your points, contact the organizer to request that they confirm and report your participation by updating submitted competition report. As of Sept. 2026, the organizer is now able to edit submitted report to add or edit points up to 1 year (subject to change) after they have submitted their report. This is done from the organizer’s BJCP account – by accessing the competition through “My Competitions” sub menu under “Competitions” menu. If the request is for a competition more than 1 year (subject to change) in past, or if the organizer runs into an issue editing points – they should send an email to the IT director with the Competition ID and your point details (i.e., judge ID, the role performed, and the number of points to be awarded).

Added May 2024:

Another note on retroactive judge point searches: please note that current search functionality relies on exact name matches for both first and last name. So it is critical that when you volunteer at a competition and do not have a BJCP ID yet, make sure to write down the name exactly as you would expect in your future BJCP records, and use the same name consistently in all competitions. This will ensure that all your retroactive points are found and credited when you get your BJCP ID without having to go through a lengthy process to find missing points!

Added Sept 2026:

As of Sept 2026, the competition organizer is able to add, remove, edit and reassign (Reassign is where points reported for a Non-BJCP person are associated with a BJCP ID when the person becomes a BJCP judge in future) points for any competition they ran in the past. They are able to add, edit and remove points for up to 1 year (subject to change) past the competition date. However, ability to “reassign” point is not limited to 1 year. Simply log into your account and go to “Competitions” Menu -> “My Competitions” sub menu, find the competition and click on “Actions” to find “Edit Submitted Report” button.

Above post was updated to reflect these changes on 9/28/2026.