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This topic has been translated from a Chinese forum by GPT and might contain errors.Original topic: 【重点】TiDB Hackathon 2022 评分规则
TiDB Hackathon 2022 “Possibility at Scale” is currently underway. We welcome you to sign up and participate, and look forward to breaking traditional technical boundaries and overcoming inherent thinking limitations with you, using TiDB to unleash more possibilities for innovation.
This year’s TiDB Hackathon is open to a wider audience, divided into two main tracks: the Application Group and the TiDB Product Group. Whether you are an application developer, database developer, database upstream and downstream ecosystem practitioner, or a database user, you can find a suitable direction and use TiDB to create more possibilities for applications.
This year’s event offers a total prize pool of 350,000 RMB, with over 10 awards, and will produce more than 20 winning teams. Let’s take a look at the awards and how to win them~
Awards & Evaluation Criteria
Top 6 Awards
Evaluation Criteria: The Application Group and TiDB Group tracks will be scored separately. The top 6 teams with the highest comprehensive scores from all judges in their respective tracks will receive the Top 6 awards.
Award | Number of Teams | Prize | Unit Price | Total Value |
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First Prize | 1 team/track | Cash | ¥50,000 | ¥100,000 |
Second Prize | 2 teams/track | Cash | ¥25,000 | ¥100,000 |
Third Prize | 3 teams/track | Cash | ¥15,000 | ¥90,000 |
Special Awards (Can be combined with Top 6 Awards)
Award | Track | Evaluation Criteria | Number of Teams | Prize | Unit Price | Total Value |
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Best Creativity Award | Application Group | [Voting] Among the top 6 projects in creativity score in the finals, selected by all judges in the track | 1 | Cash | ¥5,000 | ¥5,000 |
Public Welfare Contribution Award | Application Group | [Voting] Among projects that meet public welfare criteria, selected by all judges in the track | 1 | Cash | ¥5,000 | ¥5,000 |
Technology Trend Award | Application Group | [Voting] Among projects that have breakthroughs in automation technology, AI, data cross-sharing, cloud-native, etc., selected by all judges in the track | 1 | Cash | ¥5,000 | ¥5,000 |
Cloud Application Ecosystem Award (API) | Application Group | [Voting] Among projects using TiDB Cloud API, selected by all judges in the track | 1 | Cash | ¥5,000 | ¥5,000 |
Best Campus Award | Application Group & TiDB Product Group | [Scoring] Specially set to encourage student participation, awarded to the best project among teams consisting entirely of undergraduates, master’s, or doctoral students | 1 team/track | Cash | ¥5,000 | ¥10,000 |
Most Popular Award | Application Group & TiDB Product Group | [Voting] Separate online voting for each track, awarded to the project with the highest votes (voting method detailed below) | 1 team/track | Keyboard and mouse set for each team member | ¥5,000 | ¥10,000 |
User’s Choice Award | Application Group & TiDB Product Group | [Nomination] Separate evaluation for each track, nominated and voted by TiDB user representatives | 1 team/track | Cash | ¥5,000 | ¥10,000 |
Special Award Note: If there are fewer than three candidate teams for a special award, the winning project must receive more than half of the judges’ votes.
Finalist Awards
Award | Number of Teams | Prize |
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Finalist Award | 30 teams/track | Participation gift pack |
Scoring Rules
This event invites renowned experts in the database field, community tech leaders, and top investors as judges. They will evaluate the entries based on four dimensions: applicability/practicality, innovation, completeness, and presentation.
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No early submissions are allowed. The first line of code must be submitted after the preliminary results are announced. Final judges will strictly review whether the entries comply with this rule. Any violation will result in disqualification from winning.
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All source code of the entries must be open-source and comply with the Apache 2.0 open-source license.
More Award Details
Most Popular Award Rules
Your support is crucial for the projects entering the finals~
- Project: Projects entering the finals are eligible for voting, based on project name + description
- Voting Time: Voting opens after the preliminary results are announced on October 19 and closes after the final defense on October 23 (which will be live-streamed online)
- Voting Method: Separate voting channels for TiDB Product Group and Application Group, each person can vote once per track
We will select 5 voting users to receive a “TiDB Community Limited Edition Tote Bag”
RFC Submission for a Chance to Win
Complete RFC Submission to participate in a draw: After the competition starts, teams that successfully submit an RFC within a specific time frame will be drawn to receive a TiDB community mystery gift pack.
Mystery Awards
There are more mystery awards to be revealed on-site~