Application

Only hackers who have received email acceptance can participate in the hackathon.

Hacking Rules

• Hacker teams are made up of a maximum of 5 people;
• All projects developed during ETH Bishkek must be open-source;
• The hackathon has a 48-hour duration: from 12:00 KGT on Friday to 12:00 KGT on Sunday. Judging and award ceremonies to follow;
• In addition to the main track, hackers will be able to select sponsor bounties to apply to. The allocation of bounties depends on the sponsors.

Pre-existing projects allowed

Our policy on existing projects is that a team may bring in an existing project provided that:

• The team must explicitly communicate in the TAIKAI submission that they are working on an existing project;
• The team must develop new functionalities or extensions of the project, and that part only will be considered during the judging process;
• The team must not create a new repository and "single commit" all their code: instead, the team must make their existing repository public and work on it. Only the commits after the ETH Bishkek starting period will be considered during the judging process;
• The team's project must be born at another hackathon and all previous iterations of the same project at previous hackathons must be linked in the submission. Existing projects that did not come into existence during previous hackathons are not allowed

<aside> ⚠️ If these conditions are not met the team will be categorically excluded from the hackathon and will not be eligible for the hackathon prizes or sponsor bounties.

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<aside> 🚫 Hackathon organizers, mentors, judges, and those involved will take extreme care to avoid fraudulent behaviour by exploiting work already done that does not respect other hackers and the previously quoted rules.

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Prizes and Bounties

There are two tracks proposed:

• Main track (general prize)
• Bounties

Judges preserve a 7-day period to make the results of the prize pool official. If irregularities are found in the code repositories of any winning teams, the judges may exclude the team from the hackathon competition and not award the prize.

Sponsor Bounties

Hacker can optionally apply to one or more sponsor bounties.