About the challenge

Overly engineered code? Useless features that hinder the product more than fix it? Annoying pop ups? Websites held together with a duct tape and hopes and dreams? That's the type of content we're looking for in the Scuffathon! Lets bring the worst programmer out of you!

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https://forms.gle/cimzoC3dk1samBdU7

Requirements

What to Build

We want "functional" projects. We don't care how badly it runs, as long as it runs and "can" function within some determined time period, that's all we ask!
You can be as creative as you wish, machine learning using html? Microsoft Powerpoint turning machine?
Go for it!

The only requirments is something scuffed and "functional"

What to Submit

We kindly ask for you to submit your code and github within the 24 hours.

We also require you to submit some form of documentation whether its video, text, interpretative dance, as long as you can communicate your project, intentions and what you learnt, that's what we want to see!

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Prizes

$150 in prizes
Top 3 Worst Projects
3 winners

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Harrison Langdon
Competitons Director for CISSA

Gan Yu Pin
President of HackMelbourne

Judging Criteria

  • Extreme code layout
    Code where very line is on character long? Only using variables which rhyme? Coding a game of pong, where the code looks like a game of pong? Using all proper coding practices (Scary and unusual we know)
  • Most annoying feature
    Random number generator to change volume? Website which constantly changes fonts/colours or aspect ratio? Are you human checkboxes for every movement of the cursor?
  • Most Over-engineered Project
    AI, Deeplearning, Blockchain, cloudbased predictive model for if 1+1 does indeed equal 2? Triple backed up Dynamic Database with military grade encryption to store 1 publicly known variable?
  • Creativity
    Bend the rules and flip everything on its head!

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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