- All participants must register at https://thackseattle2015.eventbrite.com and bring a valid ticket for entry.
- Participants must be on-site to compete, present their project and collect a prize, if awarded.
- Tnooz will award three prizes of $1,000 to an individual or small team (2 members), a large team (3 to 5 members) and a people's choice as crowd-sourced by the developers on-site.
- Sponsors and API hosts may offer their own prizes for use of their technology using similar judging criteria.
- Criteria for judging: 1) originality and innovation of idea, 2) relevance to one or more THack challenge, 3) technical merit, 4) presentation skill and clarity of idea.
