For participants

Joining

Create an account (Create an account, top right), then on My events choose join as a participant next to the event. If a teammate sent you an invite link, just open it and sign in; it adds you to their team.

Your team

You can be on one team per event. Start one from the event page, then Make an invite link for each teammate. Each link works once, and stops working after 72 hours or when submissions close, whichever comes first. You can revoke a link you haven’t used. The event sets the largest team size.

Your project

A team usually submits one project, but may submit more (the fixture has a team with two); each is judged on its own.

Start your project and fill in what you have: title, a one-line tagline, a summary, the description, links to the code and a demo, tags and a track.

• Save draft keeps it private to your team and the organizers.
• Submit puts it in the public gallery.
• After that, Save changes updates it; it stays submitted and public. You can keep editing until the deadline.
• A draft you don’t want can be deleted from its edit page (Delete this draft). A submitted project can’t be deleted by the team; ask the organizers.

Starting a second project with the same title as one your team already has takes you to the existing one instead, so a double click doesn’t leave two copies.

The deadline

At the close time, editing stops: the edit page shows your project read-only, and the page, the API and the database all refuse changes, on the server’s clock, not yours. If the organizers extend the deadline, editing reopens straight away.

Duplicates

If your project looks like one submitted earlier (same repository and title), it’s flagged for the organizers when you submit it, and left out of the rankings until they decide. Only the later submission is ever flagged, and once an organizer says it’s a different project, it stays that way. This catches accidental double submissions; if yours is flagged by mistake, tell the organizers.