Global Talent Competition Live voting & talent competition platform
A competition and live-voting portal where organisers list events, participants register and submit, and audiences vote from their phones with no app to install.
One portal for the whole competition
Global Talent Competition runs talent contests, awards and live events where individuals and groups show their skills and audiences pick the winners. The organisation needed a single website to host each competition, take registrations, explain the rules and publish results.
WRTeam designed and built the portal as a responsive React front end on a Laravel back end. Organisers list live, upcoming and past events, participants register and submit entries, and audiences scan a QR code to vote in real time, with leaderboards and winner reveals updating as the votes come in.
40+
Events hosted
Competitions, awards and live showcases since launch
25K+
Votes cast
From phones, with no app download
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Service formats
Live voting, managed, judged and hybrid finale
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Vote to leaderboard
Results refresh while the audience watches
Voting in three steps, no app required
Audiences scan the event QR code, view the nominees and vote in real time. PhotoVote handles photo ballots for fan favourites and showcases; ReelVote does the same for short-form video.
- QR-code entry straight from the venue screen
- One-tap voting on photos or short videos
- Live or hidden results, then a winner reveal
Every event, from launch to results
Events sit under Live, Upcoming and Past tabs, each with its participant count, nominee list and leaderboard. Finished events show the overall winner, so past results double as proof the competition is real.
- Live, upcoming and past events in one grid
- Nominees and leaderboard one tap from each card
- Winner reveal kept on the page after the event
From sign-up to winner reveal
Before designing pages, we mapped what a participant and an audience member each need to do. Every page on the site serves one of these five steps.
Clear structure
Overview, events, competitions, services and policies each have their own page, so nothing is buried.
Secure sign-ups
Validated forms, CAPTCHA, SSL and email confirmations protect every registration and upload.
Results people can trust
Live leaderboards, optional expert judging and visible past winners give the competition credibility.
Before and after
Talent events usually run on paper ballots, basic forms and a spreadsheet count at the end of the night. The portal replaces all three with one page the audience already has in their hands.
How we worked with Global Talent Competition
WRTeam started with the organisers' goals: a clean portal to learn about each competition, an easy registration path, visible credibility and a place for regular updates on deadlines and results.
Our web development team handled UI/UX design, the React front end, the Laravel back end and admin, database design, security and hosting setup, and testing across phones, tablets and desktops before launch.
What we delivered
- UI/UX designDark, mobile-first event and voting screens
- Frontend developmentReact, responsive layouts
- Backend & adminLaravel, MySQL, submission review
- Security & hostingSSL, CAPTCHA, dedicated cloud server
- Testing & launchForms, uploads and voting on real devices
From paper ballots to a platform that scales
Each challenge the client brought to us, paired with the solution we built for it.
Registration and participant data
Sign-up forms, applications and media uploads had to be secure, validated and spam-free, with every submission stored safely.
Clean registration workflows
Step-by-step forms with inline validation, CAPTCHA and email confirmation, backed by a Laravel admin where organisers review and manage entries.
Scaling for submission peaks
A popular competition can bring hundreds of entries and thousands of votes in a short window, often from slow mobile connections.
A backend and server built for bursts
A dedicated cloud server, optimised assets and lazy-loaded images keep forms, uploads and leaderboards fast when traffic spikes.
Clarity for first-time participants
Categories, rules, deadlines and judging criteria all had to be obvious, or contestants would not know what to do next.
Separate pages for every question
Dedicated pages for events, competitions, services and rules, with Live, Upcoming and Past tabs and a three-step voting guide on the home page.
How the project ran
Twelve weeks from first workshop to the first live event, in four stages.
Discovery
Workshops with the organisers to map competition formats, registration rules, judging and the audience voting flow.
Design
Mobile-first wireframes, then high-fidelity screens for events, voting, results and the registration journey.
Build
React front end and Laravel back end developed in two-week cycles, with the client reviewing each release.
Launch
Security hardening, server setup, device testing and support through the first live voting event.
What we built
The platform ships with everything the client's team needs to run the store day to day.
Event listings
Live, upcoming and past events with participant counts, nominees and leaderboards.
Participant registration
Validated, spam-protected sign-up and application forms with email confirmation.
Live QR-code voting
PhotoVote and ReelVote ballots that audiences open by scanning a code, with no app to install.
Leaderboards and reveals
Real-time standings, live or hidden results and an on-stage winner reveal.
Managed competitions
Multi-round contests with expert judging and a hybrid live finale, requested from the services page.
Admin and updates
A Laravel admin to review entries and manage data, plus pages for rules, policies and contact.
Inside the portal
Key pages from the live site, on desktop and on the phones most voters use.
Designed for the phone in the crowd
Voters arrive from a QR code on a venue screen, so every voting and results page was designed at phone width before it was scaled up.
Colour and type
A stage-black canvas, one vivid red for every action and a touch of gold in the mark, so event photography and nominee faces carry the page.
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Technologies behind the project
A stack chosen for fast forms, secure participant data and room to grow with every new event.
React
Fast, form-heavy interface with smooth transitions for sign-ups and live results
Laravel
Registration, submissions, competition rounds and admin review
MySQL
Participants, categories, entries and vote records in one relational store
Dedicated cloud server
Headroom for registration peaks and live voting bursts
SSL, validation, CAPTCHA
Protected forms and participant data, with privacy compliance in mind
Registrations used to arrive by email and votes on paper. Now the audience scans a code and the leaderboard moves while they watch.
PhotoA competition the organisers can run themselves
The portal gives Global Talent Competition one place to announce events, take entries, run the vote and publish results, on any device.
Key outcomes
- Live, upcoming and past events on one site
- Secure registration with validation and CAPTCHA
- QR-code voting with no app download
- Real-time leaderboards and winner reveals
- Four service formats, including judged rounds
- Sponsor placements across voting moments
- Responsive on phone, tablet and desktop
- Admin review of entries and participant data
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