Official Rules 

No purchase or payment necessary to enter or win. A purchase or payment will not increase your chances of winning. 

Submission of any entry constitutes agreement to these official rules as a contract between entrant (and each individual member of entrant), the hackathon sponsor, and devpost. 

1. Dates and Timing 

Submission Period: April 28, 2022 (2:00 pm IST) – April 30, 2022 (2:00 pm IST)  

Judging Period: April 30, 2022 (2:15 pm IST) – April 30, 2022 (3:00 pm IST)  

Winners Announced: On April 30, 2022 (3:30pm IST).  

2. Sponsor and Administrator 

Sponsors: Publishsutra, Stream Yard, Coding Blocks, Wolphram Alpha, Echo 3D 

Administrator: Devpost, Inc. (“Devpost”), 222 Broadway, Floor 19, New York, NY 10038 

3. Eligibility 

A. The Hackathon is open to:  

  • Teams of having 4 in each as mandatory. 

B. The Hackathon IS NOT open to:  

  • Organizations are not allowed to participate. This hackathon is open to teams of various universities. 

  • Organizations involved with the design, production, paid promotion, execution, or distribution of the Hackathon, including the Sponsor and Administrator (“Promotion Entities”). 

  • Employees, representatives and agents of such Promotion Entities, and all members of their immediate family or household. 

  • Any other individual involved with the design, production, promotion, execution, or distribution of the Hackathon, and each member of their immediate family or household* 

  • Any Judge (defined below), or company or individual that employs a Judge 

  • Any parent company, subsidiary, or other affiliate of any organization described above 

  • Any other individual or organization whose participation in the Hackathon would create, in the sole discretion of the Sponsor and/or Administrator, a real or apparent conflict of interest 

4. How to Enter 

Entrants may enter by visiting https://z-hacks-zarc.devpost.com (“Hackathon Website”) and following the below steps: 

  • Register for the Hackathon on the Hackathon Website by clicking the “Join Hackathon” button. To complete registration, sign up to create a free Devpost account, or log in with an existing Devpost account. This will enable you to receive important updates and to create your Submission. 

  • Entrants will obtain access to the required developer tools and complete a Project described below in Project Requirements. Use of the developer tools will be subject to the license agreement related thereto. Entry in the Hackathon constitutes consent for the Sponsor and Devpost to collect and maintain an entrant’s personal information for the purpose of operating and publicizing the Hackathon. 

  • Participants can pick any of the mentioned Problem domains to produce the design and solutions.  

  • Create a video that includes footage that explains your project’s features and functionality through a comprehensive demonstration. 

  • Complete and enter all of the required fields on the “Enter a Submission” page of the Hackathon Website (each a “Submission”) during the Submission Period and follow the requirements below. 

Project Requirements 

(ii) Functionality: The Project must be capable of being successfully installed and running consistently on the platform for which it is intended and must function as depicted in the video and/or expressed in the text description. 

(iii) Platforms: A submitted Project must run on the platform for which it is intended and which is specified in the Submission Requirements. 

(iv) New & Existing: Projects must be either newly created by the Entrant or, if the Entrant’s Project existed prior to the Hackathon Submission Period, must have been significantly modified after the start of the Hackathon Submission Period. 

(v) Third Party Integrations: If a Project integrates any third-party SDK, APIs and/or data, Entrant must be authorized to use them. 

(vi) Testing: The Entrant must make the Project available free of charge and without any restriction, for testing, evaluation and use by the Sponsor, Administrator and Judges until the Judging Period ends. 

If the Project includes software that runs on proprietary or third-party hardware that is not widely available to the public, including software running on devices or wearable technology other than smartphones, tablets, or desktop computers, the Sponsor and/or Administrator reserve the right, at their sole discretion, to require the Entrant to provide physical access to the Project hardware upon request.  For Projects running on widely available smartphones, tablets, or desktop computers, 

Entrants may make their Project available using one of the following: 

a. Web/Mobile Web: Provide a link for accessing your Project on the “Testing Instructions” field on the Enter a Submission form. 

b. Public Distribution: The Entrant may make the Project available to the public via a website or online store but is not required to do so. 

Submission Requirements. Submissions to the Hackathon must meet the following requirements: 

  • Include a Project built with the required developer tools and meets the above Project Requirements. 

  • Include a text description that should explain the features and functionality of your Project. Text description should also include description of theme that highlights the Problem Statement and Architecture & Design. 

  • Include a demonstration video of your Project. The video portion of the submission: 

  • should be less than three (3) minutes and include a theme overview, design walk through, and implementation and working demo 

  • should include footage that shows the Project functioning on the device for which it was built 

  • must be uploaded to and made publicly visible on YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook Video, or Youku, and a link to the video must be provided on the submission form on the Hackathon Website; and 

  • must not include third party trademarks, or copyrighted music or other material unless the Entrant has permission to use such material. 

  • Be the original work of the submitter, be solely owned by the submitter, and not violate the IP rights of any other person or entity. 

  • Access must be provided to an Entrant’s working Project for judging and testing by providing a link to a website, functioning demo, or a test build. If Entrant’s website is private, Entrant must include login credentials in its testing instructions. 

  • Multiple Submissions: An Entrant may submit more than one Submission, however, each submission must be unique and substantially different from each of the Entrant’s other Submissions, as determined by the Sponsor and Devpost in their sole discretion. 

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Language Requirements 

All Submission materials must be in English or, if not in English, the Entrant must provide an English translation of the demonstration video, text description, and testing instructions as well as all other materials submitted. 

 

Team Representation 

If a team is entering the Hackathon, they must appoint and authorize one individual (the “Representative”) to represent, act, and enter a Submission, on their behalf. The Representative must meet the eligibility requirements above. By entering a Submission on the Hackathon Website on behalf of a team you represent and warrant that you are the Representative authorized to act on behalf of your team. 

 

Intellectual Property: 

Your Submission must:

(a) be your (or your Team) original work product;

(b) be solely owned by you or your Team with no other person or entity having any right or interest in it; (c) not violate the intellectual property rights or other rights including but not limited to copyright, trademark, patent, contract, and/or privacy rights, of any other person or entity. An Entrant may contract with a third party for technical assistance to create the Submission provided the Submission components are solely the Entrant’s work product and the result of the Entrant’s ideas and creativity, and the Entrant owns all rights to them. An Entrant may submit a Submission that includes the use of open-source software or hardware, provided the Entrant complies with applicable open-source licenses and, as part of the Submission, creates software that enhances and builds upon the features and functionality included in the underlying open-source product. By entering the Hackathon, you represent, warrant, and agree that your Submission meets these requirements.

 

Financial or Preferential Support: A Project must not have been developed, or derived from a Project developed, with financial or preferential support from the Sponsor or Administrator. Such Projects include, but are not limited to, those that received funding or investment for their development, were developed under contract, or received a commercial license, from the Sponsor or Administrator any time prior to the end of Hackathon Submission Period. The Sponsor, at their sole discretion, may disqualify a Project, if awarding a prize to the Project would create a real or apparent conflict of interest. 

  

5. Submission Modifications. 

A. Draft Submissions: Prior to the end of the Submission Period, you may save draft versions of your submission on Devpost to your portfolio before submitting the submission materials to the Hackathon for evaluation. Once the Submission Period has ended, you may not make any changes or alterations to your submission, but you may continue to update the project in your Devpost portfolio. 

B. Modifications After the Submission Period. The Sponsor and Devpost may permit you to modify part of your submission after the Submission Period for the purpose of adding, removing or replacing material that potentially infringes a third-party mark or right, discloses personally identifiable information, or is otherwise inappropriate. The modified submission must remain substantively the same as the original submission with the only modification being what the Sponsor and Devpost permits. 

 6. Judges & Criteria. 

Eligible submissions will be evaluated by a panel of judges selected by the Sponsor (the “Judges”). Judges may be employees of the sponsor or third parties, may or may not be listed individually on the Hackathon Website, and may change before or during the Judging Period. Judging may take place in one or more rounds with one or more panels of Judges, at the discretion of the sponsor. 

Stage One) The first stage will determine via pass/fail whether the ideas meet a baseline level of viability, in that the project reasonably fits the theme and reasonably applies the required APIs/SDKs featured in the Hackathon. 

Stage Two) All submissions that pass Stage One will be evaluated in Stage Two based on the following equally weighted criteria (the “Judging Criteria”): 

Entries will be judged on the following equally weighted criteria, and according to the sole and absolute discretion of the judges: 

  • Theme and Impact 

  • Design Approach 

  • Implementation 

  • Attention to details 

The scores from the Judges will determine the potential winners of the applicable prizes. The Entrant(s) that are eligible for a Prize, and whose Submissions earn the highest overall scores based on the applicable Judging Criteria, will become potential winners of that Prize. 

Tie Breaking. For each Prize listed below, if two or more submissions are tied, the tied submission with the highest score in the first applicable criterion listed above will be considered the higher scoring submission. In the event any ties remain, this process will be repeated, as needed, by comparing the tied Submissions’ scores on the next applicable criterion. If two or more submissions are tied on all applicable criteria, the panel of Judges will vote on the tied submissions.  

7. Intellectual Property Rights. 

All submissions remain the intellectual property of the individuals that developed them. By submitting an entry, entrants agree that the sponsor will have a fully paid, non-exclusive license to use such entry for judging the entry. Entrants agree that the sponsor and Devpost shall have the right to promote the submission and use the name, likeness, voice and image of all individuals contributing to a submission, in any materials promoting or publicizing the Hackathon and its results, during the Hackathon Period and for three years thereafter.  Some Submission components may be displayed to the public. Other Submission materials may be viewed by the sponsor, Devpost, and judges for screening and evaluation. By submitting an entry or accepting any prize, entrants represent and warrant that (a) submitted content is not copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless entrant is the owner of such rights or has permission from their rightful owner to post the content; and (b) the content submitted does not contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware or other disabling devices or harmful or malicious code.