Hey Everyone! The Hackathon was a great success and we would like to congratulate the winners!
First Place Winner: PianoTunesAR
1,000 € (for the team) + Wallifornia MusicTech + Les Ardentes Music Festival 2021 Tickets + Cloudsploit Cloud Security Services License x 4 months. Total €4200 cash value.
EVS Challenge Prize: TFOG: Three Flow, One Game. €2500
Best E-Sports: E-Insights
Coaching with LeanSquare Accelerator. Four (4) hours for the winning Esports Project.
Best Music Tech: Genus
Coaching with LeanSquare Accelerator. Four (4) hours for winning Music Tech Project.
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Build solutions for Music and Esports Industries, Esports Players, Gamers, and Musicians
New ways to help creators rethink their process in this era of online invention and collaboration has become a necessity. How do esports players, gamers, and musicians adapt and make online connection more meaningful?
Hackers, coders, musicians, esports enthusiasts, gamers, come join the Wallifornia MusicTech 2020 Virtual Music & Esports Hackathon July 3-9, all online! Build something innovative for the music and esports industries alongside artists, influencers, and industry mentors. Three days of preparation, team formation, challenge discussions, mentor sessions, then the hacking begins!
*** REMINDER: All projects must be built within the time frame of the Hackathon July 3-9. ***
*** Hackathon Schedule link on Resources Page ***
For esports and gaming, the challenges you’ll be tasked with are around building better systems for players with disabilities, better video capture for multiple stations, creating a point of view (POV) platform to be better able to see players reactions, and building a live production platform for “streamer’s” needs.
For Music, create a simple, user-friendly application for remote music writing sessions.
The specific challenge details are listed in the Resources section.
Not only is this a chance to put your skills to the test and learn something new, but you’ll also connect with a global community of like-minded developers, benefit from educational resources and be in the running to win some awesome prizes!
Eligibility
*** All projects must be built within the time frame of the Hackathon July 3-9. ***
Must be at least 16 years of age.
Hackers from all countries are eligible.
Requirements
• Teams are required to build projects around one of the stated ESports or Music Tech challenges.
• All code must be started and finished within the hackathon time frame July 3-9.
• Submission should be a presentable prototype (preliminary model), app, or tool ready to demonstrate or explain to judges.
• Please submit a video demo of your project that is no more than 3 minutes (hosted on YouTube, Vimeo, or Youku).
Note: A video demo will better help the judges see how your project works since the judging will only be done online.
• Please submit a link to a public GitHub repository with the code that was used to create the project.
• Include a description of your team and all your team member names, up to 10 people.
• 3-4 sentence description of your project.
Prizes
€28,700 in prizes
1st Place Winning Team: 1,000 € + Wallifornia MusicTech + Les Ardentes 2021 Tickets + Cloudsploit Cloud Security Services
1,000 € + Wallifornia MusicTech + Les Ardentes Music Festival 2021 Tickets (5 tickets) for First Place Overall Winning Team. Plus Cloudsploit Cloud Security Services License x 4 months x 5 licenses (one for each team member).
EVS Challenge Winner
Best Team Project for one of the two EVS ESport Challenges. Chosen by EVS Judge only. (Challenges #3 or #4). (See Resources Page for more info on challenges).
Winning Music Team - Coaching with LeanSquare Accelerator - Music Tech
Coaching with LeanSquare Accelerator. Four (4) hours for winning Music Tech Project.
Winning ESports/Gaming Team - Coaching with LeanSquare Accelerator - Esports/Gaming
Coaching with LeanSquare Accelerator. Four (4) hours for the winning Esports/Gaming Project.
Cloudsploit Cloud Security Services (1 month) - First 200 Applicants
(200)
Cloudsploit Cloud Security Services for first 200 applicants! €100/$110 value per person.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges

Serge Van Herck
CEO/EVS

Sylvain Boniver
COO/ Gaming 1

Molly Neuman
President/ Songtrust

Arabian Prince
Founder/ Inov8 Next

Ryan Maule
Program Lead/ SOCAN Labs

Claudia Schwarz
Innovation Catalyst Creative Tech/ MusicTech Germany & WickedWork

Kishan Sachdeva
Speech & Music, ML Researcher/ YouTube

Loïc De Visscher
Innovation Manager / RTBF

Thomas Held
Managing Director/ Fimalac Entertainment Resources

Kalle Palomäki
Sr. Startup Business Development Manager/AWS

Steven Desloovere
Head of Repertoire & Distribution/ SABAM

Bruno Bouniton
Content Strategy and Business Development /Proximus
Judging Criteria
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Relevance and Impact to Industry
How is the project relevant to the theme and Music Industry or Esports industry as a whole? -
Technical Excellence
How effectively are the most applicable technologies used to build the project? -
Innovativeness
Is this project novel, something that hasn't been attempted before, or takes an older idea to a new level? -
User Experience
Is this project user-friendly? Does it meet its attempted goal easily for the end user?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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