Judging
Sample Hack 2026
The DOGFOOD 2026 fixture event: 41 submissions, 30 judges, 8 tracks, and every awkward case.
- Registration
- Submissions
- Closed
- Judging
- Focus round
- Deliberation
- Locked
- Published
This event is loaded from the official DOGFOOD fixture, unmodified.
It contains the cases every judging system has to survive: a judge who gave every project the same score, batches nobody finished, projects with only two reviews, and a duplicate submission.
How projects are judged
Weights were published before registration opened and cannot change without a visible, audited override.
| Criterion | Weight | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Functionality Does it work? Run it, follow the demo, try the edge cases. | 33% | 1–5 |
| Quality Is the code and documentation something a team could maintain? | 33% | 1–5 |
| Innovation Is there an idea here that others have not had? | 33% | 1–5 |
Method v1 locked 30 Jan 2026 · sha256 aabeb2eb93bf003f33fdce311949c5eeef7b48f9f833b6680bf1be08e4fc7ef4 · read the full method