almost 6 years ago
July 7 Update - Submissions and Judging
Hey everyone!
Hope things are going well out there! Several of you have asked about Submissions and Judging and how this will work. Read and follow all these steps, s'il vois plait! • Important: Make sure EVERY member of your team is registered on Devpost. Each team member has to be signed up to be eligible to compete. • If you need any Mentor advice tomorrow, be sure and sign up for a time slot here! Mentors from Unity, EVS, RTBF, and more!! • if you still want to use the Universal Music API and have not signed the agreement, do that tonight so we cam send you the token. Other suggested APIs here. • Make sure your Team info is fully completed here. • Please add your Discord handle on the Teams document if you haven't already asap. We will need to be able to easily contact you on Thursday for our live portion. • Please identify specifically which challenge you are working on on the Teams document. Music Tech is not sufficient. List Music Challenge 1, 2, or 3 or Esports 1-5. *** Here is a handy reference and explanatory video about How to Enter a Submission on Devpost. Please read carefully as this is your guide. See Submission Requirements at the bottom of the Devpost page. I will recap here: • Teams are required to build projects around one of the stated ESports (1-5) or Music Tech (1-3) 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.
• Submit a video demo of your project up to 3 minutes long <not longer as judges have limited time> (hosted only on YouTube, Vimeo, or Youku - these are the only platforms supported on Devpost). The video demo will better help the judges see how your project works since the judging will only be done online.
• 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.
Here is a quick overview of what will happen with judging July 9. Be thinking ahead, especially since we are scattered around different time zones. This is on the schedule, too. July 9. All times are CEST (Belgium) HANDY Time Zone calculator 8:00am - Hacking ends Someone wiil be monitoring Discord for last minute questions. 8:00-11:45am - Finish your videos, etc. All submissions must be uploaded by 11:45 to be eligible for judging. 12:00-1:00pm - Internal review of submissions to make sure they are ready to judge. 1:00-4:00pm - Judging period. Judges will review your projects & score for each category (see below) from 1-5. 4:00-6:00pm Alert 4 top teams who will prepare to present live (We will not announce which of the 4 are winners yet. Everyone needs to be ready in case I email you or message you on Discord) 6:00-6:30 (4 top teams present live) We will add the Zoom link to the schedule page and post on Discord, too. 6:30-7:00pm - Winners announces and prizes awarded (live). Overall 1st place, Top Music Tech, Top Esports, EVS Challenge Prize. Here are the Criteria (Scored 1-5 in each) 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?
Innovation
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? Please review all this info carefully. Thursday is going to be busy, so make sure you are prepared! Happy final stretch! Thank you so much for being a part of this! It means a lot to us! The Wallifornia Team Michel, Thibault, Pierre, Simon, Catherine, Heloise, Gerome (Belgium team) Luann (Austin, Texas)