After seven days of judging and over 10,000 images viewed, the 67th annual College Photographer of the Year competititon has come to an end. On the last day, judges voted on International Picture Story, Documentary and Portfolio categories.

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Cathaleen Curtiss looks at an image from a Portfolio category entry.

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Co-coordinator Naveen Mahadevan looks through the metadata of an entry from the Documentary category.

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The judges and audience begin taking a look at Portfolio entries.

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Grant Hindsley glances up at the screen during the Documentary category.

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The judges concentrate while viewing Documentary entries.

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The judges prepare to write notes during the Documentary category.

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Kurt Mutchler contemplates over a Portfolio entry.

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Andrew Mitchell, Ryan Henriksen, and Sam Gause watch Portfolio category judging. 

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Wally Skalij offers his opinion for choosing the Portfolio category winners.

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The man: Rick Shaw.

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The judges vote "in" the gold medal Portfolio winner and College Photographer of the Year.

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Rick Shaw holds the mic up to the room to say "Hello" to the College Photographer of the Year, who he has just called on the phone to congratulate.

Tuesday concluded with the judging of Sports Portfolio, Interpretive Eye, Interpretive Project and Domestic Picture Story. International Picture Story judging was moved to Wednesday, Nov. 14.

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Judges look through Sports Portfolio entries.

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Still-Division moderator Rick Shaw reminds the judges the category description for Interpretive Eye.

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Judges look through Interpretive Eye entries.

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Volunteers and audience members take a break in between categories.

Monday concluded with the judging of General News, Feature, and Illustration. The Interpretive Eye category judging was moved to Tuesday, Nov. 13.

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Kurt Mutchler gets out of his judging chair to say what he likes about a General News category entry.

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Janet Reeves speaks to the morning audience about what makes a memorable news photograph after the first round of the General News judging.

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CPOY volunteer Kile Brewer, left, talks with co-coordinator Naveen Mahadevan.

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CPOY volunteer Leah Beane reads captions for Feature entries during the semi-final round.

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Judges take a look at Feature entries during the semi-final round.

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Still-Division moderator Rick Shaw counts the written votes for Feature category medal winners, after a long debate by the judges.

Sunday brought in a new cast of characters for the judging of the Still Division categories which included Sports Action, Sports Feature, Portrait, and Spot News.

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A 30-second exposure captures the sequence of Sports Feature entries as they are projected for the judges.

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Grant Hindsley and Ryan Henriksen watch the beginning of the Sports Feature category.

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Co-coordinator Naveen Mahadevan clicks through the Sports Feature entries, marking images voted into the next round.

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The judges take a look at the entries that made it through the semi-final round of Sports Feature.

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The first round of Portrait judging begins.

Judging for CPOY 67 Still Division categories starts at 9 a.m. today with the Sports Action category and continues through categories on Wednesday, Nov. 14th. CPOY judging is open and entrants are invited to attend. Judging takes place in Tucker Forum of Gannett Hall at the Missouri School of Journalism on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus.

If you are unable to be with us in person, please keep an eye on the judging via the podcasts on the cpoy.org website. We will be updating this blog with behind-the-scenes content from the contest judging period. Check back soon for more updates and make sure to follow @CollegePhotog on Twitter for updates during the judging week.

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Saturday concluded with the judging of the Large Group Multimedia Project category and marked the end of the Multimedia Division judging. 

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Co-coordinator Stuart Palley crawls underneath a table to adjust a section of cables and wires before the individual judging of the Large Group Multimedia Project category begins.

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The judges look at projects not in the final round to decide if they want to pull them back in.

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The judges debate over the last four projects in the final round of the Large Group Multimedia Project.

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Co-coordinators Stuart Palley and Naveen Mahadevan wait as the judges debate before selecting medal winners.

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Sarah Hoffman sends out tweets to @CollegePhotog twitter followers at the end of the Large Group Multimedia Project judging.

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Multimedia Division judge Amanda Lucidon, left, and incoming Still Division judge Cathaleen Curtiss, right, greet eachother after the end of the Large Group Multimedia Project judging.

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Multimedia and Still Division judges gather for group portrait outside of Tucker Forum in Gannet Hall after the conclusion of Multimedia division judging. From left: Joe Weiss (Multimedia-division moderator), Robert Hood, Cathaleen Curtiss, Amanda Lucidon, Kurt Mutchler, Bob Sacha, Whitney Shefte, and Janet Reeves.