ZenZone developers catch scoring bug before release due to scale mismatch.

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Developers building ZenZone for DOGFOOD 2026 identified a critical bug in their judging system's fallback logic. Their normalization process for judges' scores failed when a judge gave identical scores to all projects, creating a division by zero scenario. The initial fallback plan was to use the event's global raw average score, but this mixed incompatible scales with the normalized T-scores, unfairly penalizing projects. The team corrected the bug before shipping by using a neutral T-score of 50 for judges with zero variance, preventing skewed results.

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