Who has access to contests?
Digital Sales users gain access to contest records through membership of the resource hierarchy as well as through participation in the contest.
Users assigned the Sales Administrator job role get full access to all contests based on their privileges, regardless of where the administrators are in the management hierarchy and whether or not they're participants of a contest.
In general, you can access a sales contest if you have created it, you're a participant, or if one or more of your subordinates is a participant. The user who creates or owns the contest can edit or delete the contest. Sales administrators can view all contests and can edit and delete any contest. For more information, see the section How Users Gain Access to Sales Contests in the Data Sharing and Visibility topic of the Implementing Digital Sales guide.