I recently entered a hackathon in Europe
My team had a complete working solution
And there were 1-2 other credible ideas but none with working code
The contest had three segments two segments were sponsored by enterprises from country A and one segment from country B
My team took part in the section judged by Country B
As the judging went on we discovered many teams had nothing but a PowerPoint and one team even didn’t have a PowerPoint.... they scratched something on a whiteboard and presented pictures of those drawings. When asked what language one uses for Ethereum smart contracts this team answered Python. This was one of the eventual winning teams !!
Anyway, eventually the country A sections were awarded to teams from country A, and country B prizes went to teams from country B.
The goal of inviting teams from overseas like mine is to make this look like some international event when infact the winners were already predetermined...like I alluded to earlier they could put up a handrawn diagram and still win.
I have unfortunately been to several of these farcical events and would warn foreign teams from traveling to these fake Hackathons and accelerator pitch days which are simply vehicles to award prizes to whichever local company however useless.
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I recently entered a hackathon in Europe
My team had a complete working solution
And there were 1-2 other credible ideas but none with working code
The contest had three segments two segments were sponsored by enterprises from country A and one segment from country B
My team took part in the section judged by Country B
As the judging went on we discovered many teams had nothing but a PowerPoint and one team even didn’t have a PowerPoint.... they scratched something on a whiteboard and presented pictures of those drawings. When asked what language one uses for Ethereum smart contracts this team answered Python. This was one of the eventual winning teams !!
Anyway, eventually the country A sections were awarded to teams from country A, and country B prizes went to teams from country B.
The goal of inviting teams from overseas like mine is to make this look like some international event when infact the winners were already predetermined...like I alluded to earlier they could put up a handrawn diagram and still win.
I have unfortunately been to several of these farcical events and would warn foreign teams from traveling to these fake Hackathons and accelerator pitch days which are simply vehicles to award prizes to whichever local company however useless.