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Technical Contests, Scored Fairly

Coding, machine learning and hardware contests, with leaderboards and repository checks.Coding contests, machine learning and data-science contests and hardware challenges: repository checks, a leaderboard scored from your answer file and live scoring on demo day.

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Coding Contests

Contestants solve problems in a set window and are ranked on their code.

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Your new contest

DraftCoding contest

What it is

It is a coding contest.

What the type sets

It calls its people and things entries, submissions, contestants and judges, and the event a contest.

It switches on:

Schedule and checkpoints
Tracks, prizes and problems
Contest leaderboard
Repository checks
Certificates

The type, its words and its features can be changed in Programme Settings while the programme is a draft.

Who it is for: Colleges, clubs and companies running a coding contest for individual contestants.
The words it uses: EntryentrySubmissionsubmissionParticipantcontestantEvaluatorjudgeEventcontest
How it is judged: Judges rank the entries or compare them head-to-head, with a check on every repository link before judging starts.
Rounds it suggests: RegistrationContest windowReviewResults
Switched on for you: Schedule and checkpointsTracks, prizes and problemsContest leaderboardRepository checksCertificatesAnnouncements too. Switch any feature off, or another on, in Programme Settings.

Repository checks
Ranking or head-to-head judging
Certificates

Machine Learning and Data-Science Contests

Teams submit predictions and climb a live leaderboard.

HackDeccan's contest leaderboard: the rooftop solar forecast task led by E-Auto Swap Grid, with the private score spread and submissions per day. — The leader, the private score spread and submissions per day for every task.

Who it is for: Research groups, colleges and companies setting a prediction task with a known answer.
The words it uses: EntryteamSubmissionsubmissionParticipantparticipantEvaluatorjudgeEventcompetition
How it is judged: Upload your answer file and every submission is scored automatically on accuracy, F1, RMSE, MAE, ROC AUC or log loss. Teams see a public score while it runs; the private ranking stays hidden until you reveal it.
Rounds it suggests: RegistrationPublic leaderboardPrivate revealResults
Switched on for you: Team formationSchedule and checkpointsTracks, prizes and problemsContest leaderboardRepository checksCertificatesAnnouncements too. Switch any feature off, or another on, in Programme Settings.

Accuracy, F1, RMSE, MAE, ROC AUC or log loss
A public leaderboard; the private one stays hidden until you reveal it
The answer file is stored privately and never shown

Hardware and Robotics Challenges

Teams build a working device and show it on demo day.

Create a Programme

Your new challenge

DraftHardware

What it is

It is a hardware and robotics challenge.

What the type sets

It calls its people and things teams, builds, participants and judges, and the event a challenge.

It switches on:

Team formation
Schedule and checkpoints
Tracks, prizes and problems
Repository checks
Certificates
Pitch day

The type, its words and its features can be changed in Programme Settings while the programme is a draft.

Who it is for: Engineering colleges, makerspaces and companies running build challenges.
The words it uses: EntryteamSubmissionbuildParticipantparticipantEvaluatorjudgeEventchallenge
How it is judged: Judges review the proposal and the build checkpoint, then score the working device live on demo day.
Rounds it suggests: ProposalBuild checkpointDemo day
Switched on for you: Team formationSchedule and checkpointsTracks, prizes and problemsRepository checksCertificatesPitch dayAnnouncements too. Switch any feature off, or another on, in Programme Settings.

Design files and demo videos as checkpoint items
Live pitch scoring
Prizes

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Questions About Technical Contests

Yes, while the programme is a draft. Change it in Programme Settings, under Event type. Once the first application arrives the type is fixed, but you can still rename the people and things it uses.

No. The answer file is stored privately and never shown. Teams see a public score while the contest runs, and you reveal the private ranking at the end.

A badge beside each GitHub link: public, private or not found, with commit counts where available, so you spot a link judges cannot open before judging starts. Commit dates come from the contestant's computer, so treat them as a hint.

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Coding Contests

Contestants solve problems in a set window and are ranked on their code.

Who it is for: Colleges, clubs and companies running a coding contest for individual contestants.
The words it uses: EntryentrySubmissionsubmissionParticipantcontestantEvaluatorjudgeEventcontest
How it is judged: Judges rank the entries or compare them head-to-head, with a check on every repository link before judging starts.
Rounds it suggests: RegistrationContest windowReviewResults
Switched on for you: Schedule and checkpointsTracks, prizes and problemsContest leaderboardRepository checksCertificatesSwitch any feature off, or another on, in Programme Settings.