Event Day Guide
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Business Pitch Competitions & Hackathons

Rubric-based panel scoring, tight time limits, and a demo-day audience vote.

Pitch and hackathon judging is fast and rubric-driven: a panel scores each team across a few dimensions, back-to-back, on a schedule that can't slip.

What's different here

  • Scoring is a rubric across dimensions like team, market, product, and delivery.
  • Entries run back-to-back with strict per-pitch time limits.
  • A demo-day audience or 'crowd favorite' vote is common.

Before event day

  • Your rubric dimensions and weights are set and shared with judges.
  • The pitch schedule and time limits are locked.
  • If using an audience vote to figure into the final score, the ballot and its weight are ready.