For hackathon organizers, before scoring opens
Jury RoomJudge every team fairly - and know it fits the window before the day.
Enter the teams, the judges, the judging window and the demo format. Free in your browser: whether every judge can see every team, or how many judges each team gets (the arithmetic shown), a named map of who visits which team and when, the weighted rubric, how to combine scores so a harsh judge does not decide the podium, sponsor-judge and conflict rules, the tie-break ladder - and after scoring, a ranked result. A run writes the judging plan, or the judge brief with one line per judge.
1 Your hackathon free
2 The judging, set up free
What the page flags
Who judges which team, and when
After scoring
3 Plan or brief metered
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Allocation
Rubric
Combining scores
Conflicts
Tie-break ladder
Announcement and contest path
Record
Caveats
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How it works
The allocation comes first, because it is arithmetic: with N teams, a window of W minutes and t minutes of judge time per team, every judge can see every team only while N <= W / t - and the judge count is not in that cap, so recruiting more judges never extends full coverage. Past it, a sampled panel gives each team k = floor(J x W / (N x t)) judges; past J x W / t not even one judge reaches every team, and only a pass/fail pre-screen then finals is left. Expo and stage minutes leave out walking and setup, so every ceiling is optimistic.
The combination rule follows the band: under full coverage a harsh judge lowers every team alike and raw averages keep the order; under a sampled panel each judge's scores are normalized within their own slice before averaging. A sponsor whose contract requires its representative to judge its own track keeps that judge on that track only, and the score combiner checks the track winner survives dropping their scores. The tie-break ladder - top-weighted criterion, judges' first places, a named judge on the record, a co-award only if promised - is published before submissions close; re-scoring and coin flips are refused.